Author: Nick Green

DAVENPORT – There is no shortage of firepower in the gym for Davenport Assumption High School’s boys basketball team this winter. It has a long and athletic combo guard headed to play basketball in the Big 12 Conference next fall. It has a 6-foot-7 and 260-pound nimble post who has attracted nearly 40 Division I football offers. It has athleticism and multiple shooters on the perimeter. It has depth off the bench. “This is the most talented team I’ve had here, but time will tell if this will be the best team we’ve had,” said coach Matt Fitzpatrick, entering his…

Iowa – Overall deaths in Iowa are on pace to increase this year by more than 10% over the previous year, an indicator of COVID-19’s deadly impact. And at the worst moment of the virus’ recent surge here, deaths during Thanksgiving week in Iowa spiked by nearly 62% over the same week a year ago, federal data shows. The first deaths of the global COVID-19 pandemic in Iowa were recorded in March. Over the roughly 10 months since, nearly 3,700 Iowans have died of COVID-19 or virus-related causes. Public health and infectious disease experts use excess deaths — the number…

DAVENPORT, IOWA — Gunfire rang out near LeClaire Heights Park damaging parked cars and a home northeast of downtown Davenport. The gunshots happened at about 7:15 p.m. Sunday, December 13, about a block away from the park. A witness tells News 8 his car was damaged by the bullets. “We were just about to eat dinner and then all of a sudden I hear pop pop pop pop pop pop pop,” recalled James Champion, “and everybody like, my neighbor, she threw her and her kid to the floor and she’s like ‘get down get down’ and I’m like, that’s fireworks. She’s…

DAVENPORT, IOWA – Temple Emanuel in Davenport was vandalized on the day of Hanukkah. Vandals spray painted the Bible verse, John 8:44 near one of the entrances. This isn’t the first time the temple has been vandalized, but this time it was more concerning to the congregation because of the location of it.

DAVENPORT, Iowa – The FBI is pleading with the public for any information on a missing Iowa girl on what is her 11th birthday. The FBI field office in Omaha, Nebraska, posted a plea on its Twitter page Friday asking for any information of Breasia Terrell, who has been missing since July 9. Authorities say she was last seen at a Davenport apartment complex with her half-brother and his 47-year-old father. Police have not made any arrests in the girl’s disappearance but have labeled the father of Breasia’s half-brother a person of interest.

DAVENPORT, IOWA – More Hy-Vee stores in and around the Quad Cities are now able to offer COVID-19 testing to customers who want one and at no charge. On Friday, December 4, Hy-Vee announced that it is offering free, contactless COVID-19 lab testing outside of more select Hy-Vee pharmacy locations using a drive-thru testing process, This free COVID-19 testing is in partnership with eTrueNorth. Back in August, officials from Hy-Vee announced that it was offering free COVID-19 testing at 11 select Hy-Vee pharmacy locations. At that time, the only Hy-Vee pharmacy in the Quad Cities offering that service was at the Utica Ridge…

DAVENPORT – Jason Platt, an author/illustrator from Davenport, has once again made the Texas Library Association’s 2021 Little Maverick Graphic Novel Reading List for his “Middle School Misadventures: Operation Hat Heist.” The TLA is the country’s largest state library association and Platt’s 2019 debut graphic novel, “Middle School Misadventures,” was named to the 2020 list as well. Released on Dec. 1, the list is a recommended reading list of 83 graphic novels nationwide designed for children in grades K-5. The books were selected by public and school librarians who are members of the Texas Library Association’s Children’s Round Table, which promotes services…

Iowa – In a report released on Tuesday, the DOJ found serious failures at Glenwood Resource Center—a residential facility for individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities (IDD) operated by Iowa’s Department of Human Services (DHS). These included conducting experiments without consent, poor healthcare, unnecessary physical restraints and inadequate protections from harm. The report said: “Iowa has been deliberately indifferent to those breakdowns and the risks they pose. Glenwood frequently leaves residents at serious risk of harm or death by ignoring changes in condition outright, or by adopting a clinically unjustified ‘wait and see’ approach.” The DOJ began investigating in November…