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LSU star forward Angel Reese laughed at First Lady Jill Biden’s suggestion that both the Tigers and the Iowa Hawkeyes visit the White House following LSU’s NCAA win. Now, Hawkeyes superstar Caitlin Clark has shared her thoughts on the matter. “I don’t think runner-ups usually go to the White House,” the 21-year-old guard told SportsCenter on Tuesday. […]
First Lady Jill Biden shared Monday that she plans on making the unusual request of not only inviting the women’s national champion LSU Tigers to the White House, but also extending an invite to Iowa, the school defeated in the title game. “I know we’ll have the champions come to the White House, we always do. So, […]
Two students were killed and another person is in critical condition after a shooting at a Des Moines school on Monday. According to the Des Moines Register, the incident occurred shortly before 1 p.m. at Starts Right Here, an educational mentorship program affiliated with the city’s school district, which focuses on helping at-risk youth in grades 9-12. When officers arrived […]
Bessie Laurena Hendricks, who was widely cited as the oldest living person in the U.S., died this week at the age of 115. Hendricks died at an Iowa retirement facility, per a report from regional outlet KIMT, mere months after celebrating her 115th birthday. A funeral service for Hendricks, who lived through everything from World […]
Mark Woodley, sports reporter for KWWL in Iowa, recently went viral for his snarky on-air remarks after being assigned at the last minute to cover a snowstorm during the early morning hours last week. According to the Des Moines Register, Woodley was told two days prior that he would be covering the weather this past Thursday […]
Law enforcement is investigating an Iowa woman’s claim that her late father was a serial killer who murdered dozens of women over the course of three decades. In a recent conversation with Newsweek, Lucy Studey revealed her late father, Donald Dean Studey, who died in 2013 at 75, killed 50 to 70 women, most of which were sex […]
Popular pasta brand Barilla is facing a class-action lawsuit over alleged false advertising. A federal judge in the United States District Court of the Northern District of California on Monday denied Barilla’s attempt to throw out the case, which means the lawsuit would move forward. Two California residents, Jessica Prost of Los Angeles and Matthew Sinatro […]
Several Republican states are taking legal action in response to the Biden administration’s recent announcement of a student loan debt relief plan. As reported in August, Biden announced that $10,000 in outstanding federal student loans (plus another $10,000 for those who qualified for Pell Grants) would be forgiven for those who make less than $125,000 […]
A lake in southwest Iowa has been closed after a Missouri resident who recently swam there was infected with a brain-eating amoeba. The Iowa Department of Public Health shut down the beach at Lake of Three Fires State Park in Taylor County after the person was diagnosed with primary amebic meningoencephalitis, a rare brain infection that is usually fatal […]
A shooting in Iowa has left three people dead, according to police. Three people, including the suspected shooter, were killed on Thursday outside Cornerstone Church in Ames, Iowa, Story County Sheriff Capt. Nicholas Lennie said, per The Des Moines Register. It’s currently unclear if the suspect was killed by police. 911 calls about the shooting began to come […]
