Jasper County Pet Pantry
Creating a Pet food pantry for Jasper county. Low/fixed income people with pets in need of pet food and supplies.
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Thanks for the link, Debi!
ROCK ISLAND, Ill. (AP) - Authorities say more than 4,500 people received preventive shots following a hepatitis A outbreak that crossed the state line from Illinois into Iowa.
Rock Island County Health Department spokeswoman Theresa Foes says about 200 people came in for shots Wednesday. And a vaccine clinic at Rock Island High School drew more [...]
Michael Emerson, from Toledo, Iowa, was born in Cedar Rapids, graduated from Drake University in Des Moines, and has family in Grinnell.
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Primetime Emmy Awards nods in major categories
The Associated Press
Nominees in major categories for the 61st annual Primetime Emmy Awards announced Thursday by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.
Drama Series: “Big Love,” HBO; “Breaking [...]
Birdwatchers no featherweights in contributions to economy
The five top states with the greatest birding participation rates include Montana (40 percent), Maine (39 percent), Vermont (38 percent), Minnesota (33 percent) and Iowa (33 percent). …
[H/T @dpesek]
MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (AP) - A New Hampshire man says he swiped his debit card at a gas station to buy a pack of cigarettes and was charged over 23 quadrillion dollars.
Josh Muszynski checked his account online a few hours after the purchase and saw the 17-digit number - a stunning $23,148,855,308,184,500 (twenty-three quadrillion, one [...]
Dead hogs slip from semi in south Des Moines (Des Moines Register - includes photo)
Officer Calls Dead Hogs Incident ‘Ugly Scene’ (KCCI)
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Pig carcasses slop across I-235 on-ramp (Wichita Eagle)
Hat tip to Register commenter with handle IowaShocker
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - The Federal Aviation Administration says three people have died in a single engine plane crash near the northwest Iowa town of Sheldon.
FAA spokesman Tony Molinaro says the Piper 28 went down about 11 a.m. Tuesday.
Molinaro says the plane, built in 1968, was owned by a Wisconsin man, but he would [...]
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CAPTION:
U.S Marines from the 2nd MEB, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marines rest on their cots
at an observation post near Now Zad in Afghanistan’s Helmand province Friday
June 19, 2009. From left to right are Michael Hamilton of Eureka, KA, Kenneth
Bubier of Barstow, [...]
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) - A minister who led churches in Lincoln, Neb. and Council Bluffs has been charged with sexually assaulting four females, including a girl who was 10- or 11-years-old at the time.
Court documents filed in Pottawattamie County detail the allegations against 53-year-old Efrain Umana.
Police say Umana forced the young girl to have [...]
Iowa man wonders if mystery visitor is missing son
MELANIE S. WELTE
Associated Press Writer
NEWTON, Iowa (AP) — When a mysterious visitor showed up last fall at Jerry Damman’s Iowa farm, there wasn’t any reason for him to suspect it was the toddler son who long ago vanished from a stroller in front of a New York [...]
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