Even before Alfred Hitchcock started to toy with it, “Dial M for Murder” was a dark farce. Frederick Knott, the playwright, whipped up some diabolical conniving, as Tony Wendice arranged a hit on his rich wife Margot. In the early ’50s, Broadway audiences couldn’t get enough. Then Hitchcock’s movie (Grace
Read More →Amount: $110 To: Adams Door Company Co. Inc. For: Facility management for Des Moines Public Schools. Amount: $112.50 To: Damodhar Adhikari For: Interpretation services at Garton and Roosevelt schools. Amount: $143.76 To: American Button Machines For: Purchase of three-inch pin back button set (1,000), plus shipping. Amount:
Read More →Play the “Name that Crime” Quiz! BATHROOM BREAK IN Police were called to the Quik Trip, 2428 Hubbell Ave., at 4:30 a.m. on April 3. Upon arrival, two 18-year-old suspects matching witness descriptions were found nearby. After a short foot pursuit, police nabbed a fleeing suspect, who was found to
Read More →DES MOINES, Iowa — The Iowa State Auditor’s office has launched a second audit of Sixth Judicial District Department of Correctional Services, less than three months after its report detailing more than $775,000 in inappropriate spending by the department. “Since the previous audit, we have been contacted by people with
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April 08, 2014 by justin
in Civic Skinny
Let’s say, just to make conversation, that you’re a pharmacist and that over four-and-a-half years you sold more than 700,000 highly addictive pills out the back door of your pharmacy. Let’s say you made a small fortune doing that — a minimum of nearly $1 million — and you added
Read More →DES MOINES, Iowa—West Des Moines city officials have cued up $36 million in local and state tax incentives for a company, but won’t tell its citizens who that company is. “I shouldn’t say anything,” West Des Moines Mayor Steven Gaer told Iowa Watchdog. “The company has asked us not to.”
Read More →DES MOINES, Iowa — Decorum flew out of the Iowa Legislature on Tuesday when political games led state Sen. Randy Feenstra, R-Hull, to describe as “bullshit” a bill before a Senate subcomittee. SSB 3207 would restrict the amount of state investment tax credits a fertilizer plant being built in Lee
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April 02, 2014 by justin
in The Sound
Wayne “The Train” Hancock is about as close to no-nonsense, blue-collar America as you can get. “I don’t have a tour bus. I don’t have a fancy house,” said the man whose last album, “Ride,” peaked at No. 68 on the Billboard Country charts. “I live in a trailer park
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