Author: Nick Green

Iowa – Three beef operations in Iowa were recognized for their commitment to the principles of the Beef Quality Assurance (BQA) program: Mogler Farms, Dunlap Livestock Auction and David Bruene of Iowa State University. BQA continues to be an important pillar of checkoff programming, and each year the Iowa Beef Industry Council strives to recognize outstanding individuals that exemplify the tenets of the program. The BQA Feedlot Award, recognizing outstanding feeders, went to Mogler Farms of Alvord, Iowa. A family operation spanning three generations with seven family members currently working on the farm, the diversified Mogler operation encompasses a hog…

DAVENPORT, IOWA – Davenport police are investigating a shooting incident that occurred Sunday in the 1500 block of Mound Street. Police were dispatched to the scene at 7:09 p.m. and collected two shell casings. Not long afterward a wounded person walked into Genesis Medical Center-West Campus, Davenport. Police were investigating to see if the man’s wound was related to the shooting on Mound Street. Police ask that anyone with information about this incident to call the Davenport Police Department at 563- 326-6125, Crime Stoppers of the Quad-Cities at 309-762-9500, or submit an anonymous tip via the “P3 Tips” mobile app…

DAVENPORT, Iowa – With COVID spiking in our community on top of the usual flu season, we need to do all the recommended things to prevent spread. Additionally, there are food choices that can help boost our immune systems to prevent or fight off infections or chronic inflammation which can lead to disease. Dr. Linda Jager, Functional Medicine Physician of Iowa Cancer Specialists in Davenport, and nutritionist, Dr. Teresa Pangan are PSL guests to would like to share how foods can either be an enemy or ally to our immune system and help prevent inflammation. The following foods./nutrients are highlighted in the segment because…

DAVENPORT, IOWA – Gunfire sent Davenport shoppers scattering on the busiest holiday shopping weekend of the year. Davenport police say two groups of people were arguing just before noon Sunday at NorthPark Mall when one person pulled a gun and fired at least two shots. No one was reported hit and everyone involved and nearby fled. Police and Scott County Sheriff’s deputies responded, shut down a section of the mall and found multiple shell casings. No arrests were made and NorthPark, once the largest mall in Iowa, has fully reopened

DAVENPORT, Iowa — For nine months, Michelle Gibson Lake has watched patients suffer and die from COVID-19. She does everything she can for them as a nurse in the intensive care unit. But sometimes the virus wins. “People ask me, ‘Is it as bad as they say?’ Yes. Yes, it’s terrible,” she tells them. Especially now, as a new surge of cases is overwhelming the healthcare system in the Quad Cities. Michelle says the message of frontline workers isn’t getting out there. She agreed to an interview with News 8 to share what she thinks are the problems within the…

DAVENPORT – Pandemic restrictions are putting many businesses in a bind. Mike Roseman, the owner of a Davenport and Muscatine bowling alley, has had to shut both of them down because of new mitigations in Iowa. In a recent proclamation by Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds, league play is no longer allowed. League play counts for 90% of business for bowling alleys and because of that most have had to close down. “We basically have leagues out here seven days a week. Today I would have had 80 this morning for junior bowlers and then about another shift of about 80…

DAVENPORT, IOWA – Davenport police were searching Friday night for a wounded person from a rolling shootout that occurred on East 10th Street between Farnam Street and Grand Avenue at 4:42 p.m. Friday. Police located 18 shell casings of at least two different calibers scattered along East 10th Street. A vehicle, a rented Nissan Altima, which had been struck multiple times on the driver’s side was found parked on the basketball court of LeClaire Heights Park. Blood was found on the driver’s seat and the passenger side seat where the driver got out of the car and then fled the…

DAVENPORT, IOWA – A Davenport church isn’t letting the pandemic stop them from helping to feed the hungry on Thanksgiving day. As it has done for decades now– St. Anthony Church in handed out turkey dinners on Thanksgiving, but a little different in years past. People picked up their turkey, and all the fixings in a to- go style event. “At one point and time, people would come in to the Parish Center to eat together. Because of the pandemic, we had to go through this, although the McAnthony window has been here for many years,” says Father Rudolph Juraez,…