by Matt Kelley | Apr 29, 2024 | Fires/Accidents/Disasters, News
Emergency responders are stretched thin after Friday’s severe storms spun off at least 17 tornadoes in Iowa, damaging dozens of homes and claiming a life in Minden. Josh Murray, communications director for the American Red Cross – Nebraska-Iowa Region,...
by Matt Kelley | Apr 29, 2024 | Fires/Accidents/Disasters, News, Weather
The experts say at least 17 tornadoes touched down in Iowa on Friday afternoon and evening, including perhaps a half-dozen that are classified as EF2s, with winds up to 135 miles an hour. Meteorologist Craig Cogil, at the National Weather Service, says it may be...
by Matt Kelley | Apr 29, 2024 | Human Interest, News
A Latino author from Iowa City is publishing a book of short stories about a boy who’s coming of age in a blue-collar, predominately white Midwestern town in the late 1960s. Mario Duarte, a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, says the main...
by Matt Kelley | Apr 26, 2024 | News, Recreation / Entertainment
A performer who splits his time between New York and L.A. will be back the state he considers home as the new Michael Jackson musical “MJ” makes its Iowa debut next week. Actor, singer and dancer Josh Dawson was born in Atlanta but moved to Cedar Rapids...
by Matt Kelley | Apr 26, 2024 | News, Recreation / Entertainment
We’re more than a month into spring and the experts say Iowans who are itching to get on the open water with their kayaks and canoes may want to wait a little longer for safety’s sake. Iowa DNR conservation officer Nate Carr says with rain expected today...