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Posted October 31, 2012in Rap Sheet

  Play the “NAME THAT CRIME” Quiz!   On the clock Des Moines Police NIC FIT Police responded to an alarm at Casey’s General Store, 2849 Euclid Ave., just after [...]

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Posted October 31, 2012in Locker Room

Des Moines Derby Dames final home bout

Meet them in the street, and the lady skaters on the Des Moines Derby Dames and Crash Test Dolls appear innocent enough. But get them on their rink, and all [...]

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Posted October 31, 2012in Good Bad Ugly

The good As of Monday, Oct. 29, retail gasoline prices in Des Moines have fallen 9.2 cents in the past week, averaging $3.31 per gallon. This compares with the national [...]

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Posted October 31, 2012in Belly Up To...

Claxon’s bar has a restaurant around it

Did you know Mitt Romney’s name is actually Willard Mitt Romney? At a barbecue restaurant in Altoona, the longtime bartender and manager Nick Agness likes to entertain folks with tricky [...]

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Posted October 31, 2012in Film Review

“Flight”

“Flight” 2 stars Rated R 93 mins. Drama Starring: Nadine Velazquez, Denzel Washington, Carter Cabassa Enjoyable in that Hollywood-popcorn way for which Robert Zemeckis is famous — see “Who Framed [...]

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Posted October 31, 2012in Guest Commentary

Obama’s smokescreen obscures smart energy policies

The Obama energy team recently got pelted from an unlikely source. In a CNBC interview, billionaire oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens lambasted the President for not doing enough to promote [...]

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Posted October 31, 2012in The Sound

The brains behind Zombie Prom

Zarrie Solum understands better than most what a pain in the ass zombies can be.                “The second year I did (Zombie Prom), I tried to do a zombie pub crawl. [...]

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Posted October 31, 2012in Featured Story, Food Dude

Stalking bargains in Des Moines

While checking out readers’ choices for Iowa’s ultimate places for steak, I happily discovered that steak dinners need not be a splurge. Chicago Speakeasy, the winner of the Cityview Ultimate [...]

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Posted October 31, 2012in Game Day, Recent Posts

Kansas State picked the wrong year?

FIRST DOWN: The worry in some Big 12 circles right now is that Kansas State might’ve picked the wrong year — crazy as it sounds — to have the season [...]

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Posted October 31, 2012in Sound Notes

Sound Notes Pick o’ the Week

Downtown Des Moines said goodbye to one of its highlights on Oct. 27, as People’s closed its doors for the final time after its “Night of the Living Dead Moines” [...]

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