Two perennial flowers – Brown-eyed Susans (Rudbeckia Triloba) and Blue Lobelia (Lobelia Siphilitica) – make a pleasing color combination for sunny slope.
The Bettendorf High wrestlers wrapped up the 2000-2001 season at the district meet in Clinton, sending two hopefuls to the state meet in Des Moines this weekend.
The Smithsonian traveling exhibit, "Hubble Space Telescope: New Views of the universe" will open Febuary 24 at the Family Museum. Vistitors will be able to view images from the telescope as well as learn about planets and space through activities and video.
Admission is $4, or $2 for those age 60+. Museum members get in free. For more information call 344-4106
A judge has ordered the federal government to immediately release an immigrant held in an Iowa jail, saying it’s “hard to take seriously” the U.S. Department of Justice’s arguments in the case.
Lee Enterprises, Inc. Thursday (8/6) reported net income of $5.2 million for the third quarter ended June 28, but overall revenues at the Davenport-based media company continue to fall, off 11 percent compared to the same period a year ago.
The company's print advertising and subscription... more
Long-time Lee Enterprises, Inc. board member and former chairman Mary Junck, whose tenure was defined by taking on enormous corporate debt to buy the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in 2005, has retired.
Lee – the Davenport-based company that owns the QC Times, Daily Dispatch/Argus and some 70... more
Two former directors of the state agency that oversees Medicaid fraud investigations said Friday that Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird’s newly formed fraud task force is “political... more
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