Joe Biden grew visibly frustrated with an audience member at a campaign event on Thursday, calling the man a liar and challenging him to a push-up contest when the man asked about his son and said the former vice president was too old. The audience member, who asked the question during a stop on Biden’s […]
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Krispy Kreme-starved Minnesotans hungry for doughnuts were able to get their sugary fix thanks to an enterprising young entrepreneur. Jayson Gonzalez, 21, was able to deliver those sweet glazed doughnuts from Krispy Kreme while spreading joy to deprived Minnesotans one box of doughnuts at a time. Krispy Kreme closed its last store in Minnesota in […]
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GOP Rep. Steve King of Iowa questioned on Wednesday whether there would be any population left on Earth if not for rape and incest, a remark that has drawn condemnation from both Democrats and Republicans. “What if we went back through all the family trees and just pulled those people out that were products of […]
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Is this heaven? No, it’s Iowa. And there will be a Major League Baseball game played there in 2020. The 1989 classic “Field of Dreams” is coming to life in the cornfields. MLB announced on Thursday that a regular-season game will be played on August 13, 2020, at the site where the iconic baseball movie […]
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A tiny Japanese baby who weighed just 258 grams (9 ounces) when he was born five months ago is going home from the hospital. Ryusuke Sekino was shown on Japanese TV on Friday sitting in his mother’s arms, looking somberly around at media cameras. His mother, Toshiko Sekino, told reporters she was worried and cried […]
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A 13-year-old central Iowa boy who left home in the middle of a snowstorm has been found dead, bringing the days-long search — made difficult by frigid temperatures and blustery winds — to an end. Marshalltown police Chief Michael Tupper said in a news release that Corey Brown’s body was found around 10:45 a.m. Sunday […]
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A routine traffic stop turned into an impromptu Christmas shopping spree, thanks to a couple of central Iowa sheriff’s deputies looking to spread a little holiday cheer. Jasper County Sheriff’s Reserve Deputy Rod Eilander wrote in a Facebook post that he and Reserve Deputy Nathan Popenhagen pulled a woman over for not having license plates […]
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An Iowa man has been sentenced to life in prison for the death of his infant son who was found in a maggot-infested baby swing. The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier reports Judge Richard Stochl on Tuesday sentenced 29-year-old Zachary Paul Koehn to the life sentence without parole, as was mandatory under state law. Koehn was earlier convicted of […]
