Author: Nick Green

DAVENPORT, Iowa – A Davenport teenager is baking up something really special for for the holiday season this year—and it’s not a batch of Christmas cookies! It’s competing in a nationally broadcast baking reality show competition. 13-year-old Trey Gordon joins PSL via Zoom to talk a bit (he CANNOT reveal much….) about his experience as a contestant on the Food Network’s Kids Baking Championship. Watch the segment to learn more about Trey who has a lot of enthusiasm about baking (something his family certainly enjoys!) and information about the show including his opinion about the hosts, Duff Goldman and Valerie Bertinelli. As discussed with…

DAVENPORT, Iowa – The Davenport Police Department is asking residents to consider registering their home security cameras through its new program. The Camera Registration Program can be especially helpful during the holiday season when many are expecting deliveries to their homes. Police say investigations frequently involve officers canvassing areas surrounding a crime scene for security cameras. Knowing where cameras are located can help officers speed up investigations. It allows them to prioritize where to begin looking for evidence. According to the police department, the voluntary camera registration program is only accessible to law enforcement personnel. The program will not have…

DAVENPORT, IOWA – The Davenport Community School District is planning to ask for another waiver from the state to continue fully online learning as COVID-19 numbers continue to climb. The district, like many others in the Quad-Cities, recently switched to a fully remote learning model because of the Quad-Cities area’s increasing number of COVID-19 cases. The current waiver is scheduled to expire on on Dec. 1. At Monday night’s school board meeting, Bill Decker, chief administrator at Mississippi Bend Area Education Agency, part of the district’s interim leadership team, said the number of employees being isolated or quarantined underlies the…

DAVENPORT, IOWA – A Davenport man faces a charge of first-degree theft after police tracked a stolen trailer through a GPS device. At 10:15 a.m. Feb. 6, Davenport executed a search warrant on the 3200 block of Sunnyside Ave., Davenport. The warrant was connected to a dump trailer reported stolen from a job site in Moline. The GPS – global positioning system – on the trailer showed it was at the Davenport address. After he was read his Miranda Rights, Ricklefs – arrested Monday on a warrant – admitted to knowing the trailer was stolen for several days before the…

DAVENPORT, IOWA – A local family is mourning the loss of a loved one after a fatal accident Monday night in Davenport. Police say that Larry Wiggins was riding his motor bike in the wrong direction at the 600 block of East 15th Street just after 10 p.m. He died at Genesis Medical Center – East Campus. Larry’s sister, Seletha Wiggins works third shift at her job. She went to work us usual, but then the police came looking for her. “I was told by the police officer that my brother was in a car accident and that he didn’t…

DAVENPORT, IOWA – A 20-year-old Davenport woman faces a felony charge of first-degree theft and a misdemeanor charge of harassment of a police officer after a stolen car crashed into another vehicle. On Sunday, police saw Kyla Blackhawk running from a stolen black 2019 Kia Sorento shortly after 9:30 p.m. in the area of Iowa and 13th streets, an arrest affidavit says. She jumped out of the car while it was still in motion, leaving it to collide with a parked vehicle. She was taken into custody when she tried to come back to the scene. She admitted being inside the…

DAVENPORT, IOWA – Mic Seifert, a veteran physical education teacher in Davenport, has exercised a new muscle this year he never thought he had before – computer literacy. Like all teachers nationwide, Seifert, 47, was forced by the Covid-19 pandemic this past spring to come up with virtual content for his classes at Madison Elementary School. He’s in his 22nd year of teaching and virtual fitness lessons have become an international viral sensation. His YouTube channel, P.E. with Mr. S, can be found at https://www.youtube.com/c/PEwithMrS/videos. Since May, Seifert has made 40 videos, and already the channel’s 2,700 subscribers have viewed its videos over 80,000…

DAVENPORT, IOWA – For a little more than two hours on Wednesday, it was a madhouse on West Locust Street in Davenport. Hundreds of people navigated their way into and around the parking lot at Riefe’s Family Restaurant, 1417 W. Locust St., to get their last taste of home-style cooking. The restaurant opened at 11 a.m. and began giving away free root beer, tenderloin sandwiches and french fries to customers. By noon, owners said they had about 500 tenderloins left to give away for free. By 1:15 p.m., the restaurant had run out of 1,000 tenderloins, 1,000 root beers and 1,000…