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Friday, August 14, 2009, 8:56 AMby Pat Powers, KQWC, Webster City Equipment from Iowa’s agricultural history will be chugging away in the fields of north-central Iowa at an event starting today in Wright County. David Nelson is helping coordinate the 20th annual Antique Power Machine and Country Craft Show in the Belmond area. He says… Continue reading »

Friday, August 14, 2009, 8:55 AMby Mike Lindell, KFJB, Marshalltown Many questions remain after a body was found in a burning car in Marshal County. The Marshal County Sheriff’s office issued a release late Thursday saying there’s been no positive confirmation of the identification of the body, although they believe they know the identity. The… Continue reading »

Friday, August 14, 2009, 2:16 PM One of the men who founded the iconic band the Beach Boys in 1961 is beingnamed the “energy czar” of a southeast Iowa town. Singer-songwriterMike Love says the band’s show in Fairfield on Labor Day will be one ofthe first-ever… Beach Boy becomes “energy czar” of Fairfield

Just got home from work and there were several Windows XP updates, released by Windows Update.Also, I have an extreme headache, so nothing more posted this morning, but I will post more this afternoon.I have been playing the XBOX (yes, the original, I’m cheap) game of The Lord of the Rings the Third Age and… Continue reading »

Thursday, August 13, 2009, 4:37 AM A study by an Iowa State researcher has found kids in low-incomefamilies are having sex at a much earlier age than thought. BrendaLohman says she was shocked to see the results from the survey oflow-income families in Boston, San Antonio and and Chicago. Lohman saysthe average age for kids… Continue reading »

Thursday, August 13, 2009, 9:50 AMby Mike Buchanan, KBOE, Ottumwa The video gaming industry is worth billions of dollars and a southeast Iowa town wants to cash in on everything from the latest games all the way back to Pac Man. Ottumwa Mayor Dale Uehling will be helping unveil plans today for what will be… Continue reading »

Well, I got to see only two meteors last night, as to my surprise it started to rain. It started raining about 3 am till a little after 4 am then quit. But around 6 am it started up again and we got some darned good downpour around 7am. Ended up with a little over… Continue reading »

The Army released suicide data for the month of July today. Among active-duty soldiers there were eight potential suicides in July. In June, the Army reported no confirmed suicides and nine potential suicides among active-duty soldiers. Since the June report, four of the nine potential suicides have been confirmed and five remain under investigation. There… Continue reading »

 2009 Iowa State Fair | State Fair Time The Iowa State Fair kicked off this morning by lending a helping hand to fellow Iowans through the State Fair Food Drive. So far more than 46,000 pounds of food, including 33,000 pounds of eggs from the Iowa Egg Council, have been collected for the Food Bank… Continue reading »

You should be able to see more of the Perseid Meteor shower tonight. Best time is after midnight, just look up in the northern sky. Good chance to see more in NE corner of the sky. Should be a neat show.