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William J. Riley Sr. (October 7, 1920 [1] – December 15, 2006) was an American entertainer known as "Mr. State Fair" in Iowa. Riley was born in Iowa Falls, Iowa.His father died when he was 18 months old, and Bill and his brother were raised by their mother through the Great Depression.
[10] [11] Today, DHI Group, Inc. has 500+ employees worldwide. Chris Benner, in his 2002 book Work in the new economy: flexible labor markets in Silicon Valley, called Dice.com "[t]he most prominent site in the Silicon Valley high-tech recruiting industry". [11] Dice is an acronym for "Data-processing Independent Consultant's Exchange".
Des Moines County is located in the U.S. state of Iowa.As of the 2020 census, the population was 38,910. [1] The county seat and largest city is Burlington. [2] It is one of Iowa's two original counties along with Dubuque County; both were organized by the Michigan Territorial legislature in 1834.
A Des Moines man was sentenced to 15 years in prison for the shooting death of Kaydee Bobbitt, who was hit by gunfire while driving through Des Moines' Drake neighborhood three years ago. Derrick ...
A two-vehicle crash Saturday night killed one in Des Moines. First responders were called around 7:22 p.m. to a collision south of the intersection of SE 14th Street and Watrous Avenue.
The name finally became The Des Moines Register in 1915. [3] (Cowles also acquired the Des Moines Tribune in 1908. The Tribune, which merged with the rival Des Moines News in 1924 and the Des Moines Capital in 1927, served as the evening paper for the Des Moines area until it ended publication on September 25, 1982).
Woodland Cemetery is the oldest cemetery in Des Moines, Iowa, having been established in 1848, before Des Moines was the state capital. [1] It is a municipal cemetery owned and operated by the Des Moines Parks and Recreation Department. It covers 69 acres (28 ha) at the corner of 20th Street and Woodland Ave [2] and is the site of over 80,000 ...
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Iowa from 1834 to 1963. Capital punishment was abolished in Iowa in 1965. [1] 45 people were executed in Iowa from 1834-1963, all by hanging. [2] In 2020, a man from Iowa, Dustin Lee Honken, was federally executed at USP Terre Haute by lethal injection. [3]