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Iowa state park camping fees increase for the first time in 20 years Campers at Iowa’s state parks this year will pay a few more dollars a night to put up a tent or park their recreational vehicle, with the largest increases coming at state parks with the most visitors and amenities. More
Legislative Iowa budget work underway DES MOINES — A sure harbinger of adjournment for the 2021 legislative session happened Monday when the Senate Appropriations Committee advanced the first state budget bill — even if the end still is weeks away. More
Graduation A graduation is the awarding of a diploma by an educational institution. [1] [2] It may also refer to the ceremony that is associated with it, which can also be called commencement, congregation, convocation or invocation. The date of the graduation ceremony is often called graduation day. Graduates can be referred to by their year of graduation. 12/23/2024 - 3:26 pm | View Website
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By AUDREY McAVOY, Associated Press
HONOLULU (AP) — Warren Upton, the oldest living survivor of the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the last remaining survivor of the USS Utah, has died. He was 105.
Upton died Wednesday at a hospital in Los Gatos, California, after suffering a bout of pneumonia, said Kathleen Farley, the California state chair of the Sons and Daughters of Pearl Harbor Survivors.
The Utah, a battleship, was moored at Pearl Harbor when Japanese planes began bombing the Hawaii naval base in the early hours of Dec.
Terrified customers at a Miramar IHOP ducked for cover in the early hours of Christmas morning after a triple shooting took place in the parking lot, according to newly released 911 calls.
Friends and families sharing a late-night meal were suddenly instructed to get down on the ground while what one caller described as a “shootout” took place outside.
Two women were killed and a man was wounded in the shooting at the IHOP on Miramar Parkway just after 1 a.m.
MIAMI GARDENS — If Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa is a razor-sharp 26 of 30 passing in each of his next two games, he’ll finish the season completing 74.7 percent of his passes and narrowly surpass Drew Brees’ all-time single season completion record of 74.4 percent, established in 2018.
There’s a chance that happens, but it’s a longshot, similar to the Dolphins’ playoff hopes.
It’s been that type of frustrating season for Tagovailoa, who leads the Dolphins (7-8) into Sunday’s game at Cleveland (3-12) having completed a career-best and league-leading 72.9 percent of his passes this season.
Tagovailoa was asked the possibility of establishing that completion percent record earlier this month.
“That would mean a lot,” he said, “but I think for us, right now, just trying to keep the main goal, the main goal and to find a win this Sunday and go on a run that we’ve been talking about in that locker room as a team, that would be a little more special than any other record I would say.”
That didn’t happen.
By LOLITA C. BALDOR and MATTHEW LEE
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States is expected to announce that it will send $1.25 billion in military assistance to Ukraine, U. S. officials said Friday, as the Biden administration pushes to get as much aid to Kyiv as possible before leaving office on Jan. 20.
The large package of aid includes a significant amount of munitions, including for the National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems and the HAWK air defense system.
Don’t listen to me say what 2024 was like.
Listen to them.
“Everybody’s different, every coach is different, and it seems to me, as you age, you get a different perspective on life and what’s important and valuable. I need to win one. It’s not going to change the section of my life that’s not related to hockey at all.
By Lynn O’Rourke Hayes, FamilyTravel.com (TNS)
Here are five ideas from the literary world that may help shape your next adventure.
The Anne Frank House and Museum, Amsterdam
Tourists line up inside the Anne Frank house in Amsterdam on July 5, 2024, to see the tiny annex where Anne and her family stayed for nearly two years during the Nazi occupation.