Author: Nick Green

Iowa – The No. 4 ranked Iowa basketball team moved to 7-1 on Tuesday night at Carver-Hawkeye Arena after a convincing 70-55 win over the Purdue Boilermakers (6-3). After suffering their first loss of the season this past weekend, the Hawkeyes came to play. Points were hard to come by, but Fran McCaffery’s team was able to piece together their best defensive performance of the season in what amounted to just 55 points for the Boilermakers. Here are the biggest takeaways and observations from Iowa’s first Big Ten win: The Hawkeyes had their best defensive performance of the season, hands down.…

DAVENPORT, Iowa – A man suspected to be involved in a shooting at a Quad City Convenient store is behind bars. Davenport Police arrested Caleb Heath, 22, of Davenport Friday evening. Heath is accused of taking part in a shooting outside of QC Mart back in October Officials said Health allegedly fired multiple shots at a Chevrolet Trailblazer and a person standing near the vehicle. He’s charged with intimidation with a dangerous weapon and reckless use of a firearm with intent to injure. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for December 29th.

DAVENPORT, IOWA – A Davenport clothing store partnered with local businesses to make sure kids had a Christmas to remember. D Jay’s Fashion hosted a drive-by toy give-away yesterday. They gave away over 1,000 toys to kids for christmas. Cars wrapped around the blocks of 3rd and 4th streets in Davenport waiting for gifts. Store owner Devin Jackson said it’s their way of helping out the community during a hard time. “[There’s] a lot of people that are going without right now. Some are struggling with not having a job, or the wages to even supply Christmas for their kids,”…

DAVENPORT, IOWA – The Davenport apartment complex was cleared of bed bugs, but the damage was done. When Bob Ross lost his bed, couch and recliner to the insect outbreak, his apartment floor was all that was left at bedtime. The 70-year-old, who served two tours in Vietnam, earned a Purple Heart and is on medical disability, was living in a furniture-bare apartment. “But I wake up in the morning, and I’m happy with that,” Ross said. “When I’m still able to wake up in the morning, I can’t complain.” His senior advocate at CASI, Center for Active Seniors Inc.,…

DAVENPORT, IOWA – Quad-Cities health officials reported two more deaths Wednesday from COVID-19-related causes — one each in Rock Island and Scott counties. The days leading up to Christmas have not been kind for those sickened by the virus. Since Friday, Dec. 18, the Quad-Cities has lost 32 people to COVID-19 — 18 in Rock Island County and 14 in Scott County. The month of December has been cruel, too. Since Dec. 1, a combined 146 deaths in Rock Island and Scott counties are linked to the virus. That’s an average of 6.6 people per day through the first 22…

DAVENPORT – An American Idol champion and Iowa native returns to her home state on December 19 in Maddie Poppe’s Acoustic Christmas, a festive holiday concert featuring seasonal tunes and songs from the artist’s albums Songs from the Basement and Whirlwind, the latter described by Guitar Girl magazine as boasting “unforgettable melodies and cultivated songcraft.” A naive of Clarksville, Iowa, the 23-year-old singer/songwriter/guitarist Poppe had her first brush with fame opening for Diamond Rio at the 2016 Butler County Fair right after high-school graduation, and that June, she released her first album Songs from the Basement. The following summer in New York, Poppe auditioned for season 16 of American…

Iowa – Ryan Duffy is looking forward to living in Pennsylvania and its COVID mitigation. He and his family are scheduled to relocate to central Pennsylvania from the Des Moines area in the next few months and the school teacher who fought COVID in November is looking forward to living in a location with strict COVID mitigation. In Iowa, a mask mandate wasn’t implemented until mid-November. In the schools where he taught — middle and high school history — social distancing and masks were a mixed bag. He taught in a classroom with nearly 30 students. Duffy is certain he caught the novel…

DAVENPORT, IOWA – Firefighters who responded to a fire alarm Sunday found someone deceased in a Davenport apartment. Shortly after 5 p.m., crews responded to The Heritage, 501 W. 3rd St., for a fire-alarm activation. Firefighters found smoke in the second-floor main hallway, with a sprinkler head activated in a second-floor apartment. During the investigation, the occupant of the apartment was found deceased. The sprinkler head extinguished the fire, and damaged was confined to that one apartment. Smoke damage was limited to the single affected unit, with minor water damage to neighboring units because of sprinkler activation. Occupants of neighboring…