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Performer magician and performer jason suran. The shows called seance. The seance. Tell us about it. It is, essentially, an homage to a kind of magic and a kind of show that at one point in American History was incredibly popular and taken very seriously, but thats been largely left to history. Howd you come up with the idea to do it as a Theatrical Event . Theres all kinds of different seances, but this things we were particularly interested in was recreating the kind of magic that really becam...

A centuryold church in Downtown Des Moines faces demolition after City Council Members voted earlier this week not to intervene. The owners of the property want to demolish the building so they can sell it to a developer. But historic preservationists want to save it. Channel 13s Reid Chandler is following this story and joins us live from outside the Historic Building with more. This building at 811 crocker street used to be the home of burns United Methodist church, the oldest africanamerican ...

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Line this legislative session. And the lines are already drawn over how much lawmakers are willing to spend. The governor has proposed an increase of more than 145 Million Dollars in funding. Thats a 2 point 45 increase. Republicans want 2 percent, while democrats are pushing for 4. However Des Moines Schools are more concerned over how that money will be used. Theres a couple areas we think the state can more to help students, especially students that have additional needs. The districts studen...

Police in shenandoah are also investigating the death of an infant. This time at a statelicensed daycare. Officers were called to the daycare yesterday on a report of an unresponsive 3month old. The little girl died a short time later at the hospital. Police are yet to release the cause of death and say the investigation is ongoing. Des Moines Police are searching for a suspect in a pair of pharmacy robberies. The same suspect is accused of robbing fifield pharmacy on University Avenue twice. Th...

60 foot building this will the permit holders will be here fighting this agency theyre marketing thing that those embarcadero views so their somewhat disingenuous on this but the point it if this is approved there will be a 200 and 40 foot wall that refers to staff from the waterfront it is not stepping down so it is in our hands you know if you want to approve that kind of a first step i think were take another look at developers rendering but it clearly does fit in with the other buildings adj...

Existing lets say retail space and you are spending 100,000 and you are going to trigger improvement for ada access. It almost seems like this should be an economic factor where its a per square foot or how do you want to say, per square foot number and that triggers a 10 per square foot has to go towards improvements of the building. It would seem like we have something pretty set so its not arbitrator. It would seem that can we say a calculation is made per square foot gets more in rent and th...

Because nobody has used it. So maybe, its hard to say whether its a necessary incentive or not. Nobody has used it and seems that its almost not necessary and we can say yes, its fine to change it and modify it in a way. Its sort of arbitratorary. Commissioners to provide a little bit of background we do receive called on a calls on a regular basis to this section. Henry adams is the property that qualifies for local landmark status and wants to use it. Its a very runt routine question that we h...

Water we have in missouri and we need to protect the quality of water have in our state. All across our state drinking and Wastewater Treatment systems, many built decades ago are starting to fall apart. If youve ever had a pipe burst in your basement, or a cracked maintain your subdivision, you know how costly and annoying that can be. Thats what my budget this year includes 70 million, funds already approved by the voters and the legislature, to rebuild these aging Water Systems now and ensure...

Epicenter of the 6. 0 quake, but it did see the most damage. 33 businesses condemned, some with gaping holes in the walls. The quake was centered between napa and American Canyon west of both cities. We start our Live Team Coverage this morning with bob redell in downtown napa. Bob, has the cleanup stage begun so far . Reporter not here, not in the immediate downtown area. Good morning. Out of safety and concern for the possibility of aftershocks, the city of napa has effectively shut down the f...