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Stats: Rare, dramatic temperature swings in midwest

...Tuesday night into Wednesday. It will usher in a slightly cooler, but still above average, air mass for the Midwest for the middle of the week. Highs on Wednesday will be back down near 80 for Des Moines, Minneapolis, Omaha and Chicago.

http://brainerddispatch.com/weather/2013-05-14/stats-rare-dramatic-temperature-s
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Ruth I. Hitz

...Minn.; and Joyce Hitz, West Des Moines. Together they operated the Rosebud...left the farm in 1964 and moved to Des Moines. Bill was Secretary of the International...noon at Highland Memory Gardens in Des Moines, Iowa. Visitation with the family...

http://brainerddispatch.com/obituary/2013-02-28/ruth-i-hitz
Amazing, historic snowstorm from Texas to Michigan

...Kan., Kansas City, Mo., and Des Moines, Iowa spanning Thursday into Friday...heaviest May snowfall on record for Des Moines, Iowa, was during 1907, when 1...same year. About 100 miles north of Des Moines, along I-35, in Mason City...

http://brainerddispatch.com/weather/2013-05-02/amazing-historic-snowstorm-texas-
Weather
Virginia 'Ginny' Steuber

...Forest of Aachen. Ginny was an elementary teacher at country schools at Pequot Lakes, Minn., Austin, Minn., and Des Moines, Iowa. Ginny also was a teacher for Robbinsdale School District No. 281 from 1957 until her retirement in 1983. She...

http://brainerddispatch.com/obituary/2013-05-08/virgina-%E2%80%98ginny%E2%80%99-
Cecilia M. Kempenich

...Dykes, of Byron, Larry, of Hutchinson, Carol (Todd) Conrad, of Maple Grove, and Joyce (Brian) Ringwelski, of Des Moines, Iowa; 22 grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; and siblings, Don Andres, Jim Andres, Walt Andres, Bob...

http://brainerddispatch.com/obituary/2013-05-03/cecilia-m-kempenich
Burton R. Coleman

...Lutheran Church in Brainerd, Minn. They made their home in Des Moines, Iowa, before moving back to Springvale. Burt is survived...Coleman, of DeSoto, Iowa, Myron Coleman, of West Des Moines, Iowa, Marshall (Valerie) Coleman, of Eagle, Neb...

http://brainerddispatch.com/obituary/2013-02-04/burton-r-coleman
Donald Knold

...teaching the following year at Urbandale HS. Don was united in marriage to Eleanor "Ellie" Barton on June 1, 1957, in Des Moines, Iowa. He attended Marine Corps Officer Candidate School. After serving two years at Camp Pendleton, Calif., he...

http://brainerddispatch.com/obituary/2013-04-12/donald-knold
GOP indecision reflected in Iowa

DES MOINES - Just a few hours before the Iowa caucuses...Acheson, a general contractor from West Des Moines, remained as he had been for months...drift is typical, and revealing. In a Des Moines Register poll published three days before...

http://brainerddispatch.com/news/political/2012-01-04/gop-indecision-reflected-i
Columnists
Closing of 259 USDA offices raises safety concerns

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - The U.S. Agriculture Department announced Monday it...Minnesota, Montana, the Dakotas and Wyoming. FSIS offices in Chicago and Des Moines will remain open. It was not immediately clear whether work from the other...

http://brainerddispatch.com/news/2012-01-10/closing-259-usda-offices-raises-safe
News
Bachmann quits race, says she'll fight for issues

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Michele Bachmann announced Wednesday that she has "decided...stand aside," Bachmann said at a hastily arranged news conference in Des Moines, hours after the caucus results were announced. "I will not be continuing...

http://brainerddispatch.com/news/political/2012-01-04/bachmann-quits-race-says-s
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