Picker Fritz eager to help hometown of Davenport
Source: SF Gate
Davenport :: IA :: USA | updated 2013-05-18 11:11:28 -0700 | allnews
Half of the "American Pickers" is from Davenport, Iowa born and raised. When Frank Fritz is away from his hometown, digging in barns for the History Channel , he regularly gets star treatment. "We'll pull into some small towns, and...
Picker Fritz eager to help hometown of Davenport
Source: SF Gate
Davenport :: IA :: USA | updated 2013-05-18 11:11:28 -0700 | allnews
Half of the "American Pickers" is from Davenport, Iowa born and raised. When Frank Fritz is away from his hometown, digging in barns for the History Channel , he regularly gets star treatment. "We'll pull into some small towns, and...
Lee Enterprises refinances $94 million in debt
Source: Associated Press
Davenport :: IA :: USA | updated 2013-04-30 17:29:35 -0700 | business-news
Newspaper publishing company Lee Enterprises Inc. said on Tuesday that it has refinanced $94 million worth of debt with Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc., avoiding an interest rate increase that would have gone into effect next year. As part of...
EEOC asks jury to give damages to disabled workers
Source: SF Gate
Davenport :: IA :: USA | updated 2013-04-30 11:22:38 -0700 | technology-news
Iowa (AP) A government attorney asked jurors Tuesday to award damages to 32 mentally disabled workers, saying they were subjected to around-the-clock discrimination by a Texas company that profited from their work at an Iowa turkey plant. Equal Employment Opportunity...
Iowa school district investigates alleged cheating
Source: SF Gate
Davenport :: IA :: USA | updated 2013-04-24 17:07:39 -0700 | technology-news
Iowa (AP) Numerous instances of corrected answers on standardized test scores at an elementary school in Davenport led its school district to open an investigation into cheating allegations, but officials announced Wednesday they're not sure who was behind it.
EEOC: Disabled Iowa workers were exploited, abused
Source: Charlotte Observer Online
Davenport :: IA :: USA | updated 2013-04-23 16:13:50 -0700 | technology-news
Iowa A Texas company profited from dozens of mentally disabled men working at a turkey processing plant in rural Iowa where they were physically and verbally abused and forced to live in filthy, rodent-infested conditions, a government attorney told jurors...
Lee Enterprises posts smaller 2Q loss
Source: The Bellingham Herald
Davenport :: IA :: USA | updated 2013-04-23 13:11:25 -0700 | business-news
Louis Post-Dispatch and other newspapers, reported a smaller loss for its fiscal second quarter on Tuesday. Lee said it lost $6 million, or 12 cents per share, in the January-March period. That compares with a loss of $26.6 million, or...
Group notes pollution with Mississippi River walk
Source: SF Gate
Davenport :: IA :: USA | updated 2013-03-30 07:26:47 -0700 | technology-news
Iowa (AP) For five walkers making the 1,200-mile trek from the headwaters of the Mississippi River to its mouth in New Orleans, the issue never has been clearer or more pressing. "The Mississippi River is the second-most polluted river in...
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