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When your house is a fixer-upper, and it's the spooky season, have some fun!

When your house is a fixer-upper, and it's the spooky season, have some fun!

It got pretty dangerous out there today, and I'm sorry.

It got pretty dangerous out there today, and I'm sorry.

I have three cups a day.

I have three cups a day.

I have three cups a day.

It almost didn't happen this year. But, thanks to some Iowa teens, it's back!

So, whats in a nickname? We all have one, or more. Mine was "J-Dogg" as a kid. Very 90s, no? Some of us have many nicknames. The one that applies to a breed of insect buzzing around Cedar Rapids and Eastern Iowa has a pretty scary nickname, but dont worry too much, it really isnt interested in you. The Sphecius speciosus, a type of wasp, is best known by a fright-inducing nickname:  Cicada Killer Wasps. Oh, and theyve arrived! Cicada Killer Wasps are only here to feast on cicadas Wasps in gen...

Iowa Mail Carrier Charged With Stealing Receipts and Rebates An eastern Iowa mail carrier is facing charges after authorities say she took customer receipts being sent in for rebates and, if that wasnt bad enough, took actual rebates too. 33-year-old Kami Stephens (she recently changed her name from Kami Fry, according to Our Quad Cities) of Wapello pleaded not guilty last month to an April charge that she used a stolen Menards rebate credit check worth more than $200 at Menards in Muscatine. S...