FROM KCCI: 16-year-old in custody after assault with scissors at central Iowa school. West Des Moines police took a 16-year-old into custody Tuesday after the student allegedly used scissors to attack another at the Walnut Creek Campus. Officers responded to the alternative high school, located at 1020 8th St. in West Des Moines, around noon after school officials said "a verbal altercation involving multiple students that led to an attack with a sharp object."  ... READ MORE

FROM WHO-TV: Ag Secretary Naig announces reelection plans. On Tuesday, Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig announced he is seeking reelection. Secretary Naig is seeking reelection for the 2026 election, making the decision to steer away from the Gubernatorial race. ... READ MORE

FROM WOI: Des Moines sets single-day rainfall record for May. It was a rainy two days in central Iowa as Des Moines set a single-day rainfall record for the month of May. Iowa's capital city received 3.84" inches of rain on Monday alone, the highest daily total in May ever. ... READ MORE

Clear Mortgage meteorology

A few sprinkles are possible today and Thursday as temperatures stay cool. We'll see at least some sunshine Friday. Slight rain chances return Saturday and Sunday.

For help with pre-approvals or refinancing, get in touch with Originating Branch Manager Carrie Hansen at carrie.mortgage.

Woebegone Wednesday
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brook Rollins has been demonstrating a bad habit of not answering questions. She consistently refuses, switching to shibboleths and off-subject political platitudes. Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo gave her three chances recently to answer a single question about whether India and South Korea are open to allowing more U.S. agricultural products in. Rollins humiliated herself trying to not answer. That is very different from most all other trade negotiators in the current administration.

We think it means she is not empowered in trade negotiations and doesn’t know anything. If so, that disenfranchises farmers and ranchers and suggests maybe the D of A is headed for the chopping block. With more than 100,000 employees, the D of A has one bureaucrat for every 26 people engaged in agriculture in America, in any manner.
 
Deals today
 • Waterfront's Wednesday special this week is a crab and shrimp boil. 

• Wednesdays bring steak night to Club 2000 (422 Indianola Road, Des Moines). Steaks are cooked to order with salad, potato and bread, $14.99.

• Angry Goldfish (2301 S.W. Ninth St., Des Moines) offers hot beef sandwiches with mashed potatoes and gravy for $11.50 on Wednesday. 

• Curbin' Cuisine (1325 S.W. Oralabor Road, Ankeny) offers traditional gyros for $7 Wednesdays. 

• Wine bottles are half price on Wednesdays at Trostel's Greenbriar (5910 Merle Hay Road, Johnston). The Continental (407 E. Fifth St., Des Moines) also has half-priced bottles on Wednesdays. 

• Barntown's (9500 S.E. University Ave., West Des Moines) Wednesday specials are a pound of chicken tenders with fries and two sauces for $11.99, plus $13 core pitchers of beer.

• Wednesday is Biryani Festival at Chowrastha (5910 Ashworth Road, West Des Moines). Buy two and a third is free.

• Village Inns offer free pie with entrees on Wednesdays. 

• Kids eat free with every paying adult on Wednesdays at Chuck’s (3610 Sixth Ave., Des Moines).

• It's lasagna day at Maxie's Supper Club (1311 Grand Ave., West Des Moines), breaded pork tenderloin day at Eastside Eddie's (3517 E. 26th St.), and barbecue ribs evening at G Migg's (128 Fifth St., Valley Junction).

• Panka Peruvian (2708 Ingersoll Ave., Des Moines) has live jazz Wednesday. 

• Bordanaro's (6108 S.W. Ninth St., Des Moines) has a Wednesday-Thursday only special on carryout pizza. They start at $6.50 for a 10-inch cheese pie. Each ingredient added is an extra charge, but this pretty much adds up to half-price pies.

• Gilroy's (1238 Eighth St., West Des Moines) has fried chicken specials tonight.  

• Kwik Stars' Wednesday special is eight pieces of fried chicken for $10. Their fried chicken is ridiculously good for a convenience store.  

• On Wednesdays, you can get any burger, wrap or sandwich with fries for $9.99 at Tito's Lounge (3916 N.W. Urbandale Drive, Urbandale). 

• Robert Deitch plays Stuffed Olive at 6 tonight and Brian Herrin is at Gilroy’s  at the same time.  
 
• Jethro's have $9.99 breaded pork tenderloin sandwiches, including side of choice, on Wednesdays. 
 
•  Price Choppers have sales on house brand butter $3.99/pound, southern peaches at $1.49/pound and whole watermelons for $4.99, through Monday.

• Fresh Thyme (2900 University Ave., West Des Moines) begins a week-long sale on 8-inch fruit pies at $5.99, jumbo (16-20) shrimp at $3,99/pound and Coho salmon fillets at $7.99/pound.

— Jim Duncan, jd91446@aol.com

1881: American Red Cross founded. In Washington, D.C., humanitarians Clara Barton and Adolphus Solomons found the American National Red Cross, an organization established to provide humanitarian aid to victims of wars and natural disasters in congruence with the International Red Cross. ... READ MORE

1927: Charles Lindbergh completes the first solo, nonstop transatlantic flight. American pilot Charles A. Lindbergh lands at Le Bourget Field in Paris, successfully completing the first solo, nonstop transatlantic flight and the first ever nonstop flight between New York to Paris. His single-engine monoplane, The Spirit of St. Louis, had lifted off from Roosevelt Field in New York 33 1/2 hours before. ... READ MORE

1932: Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to make solo, nonstop transatlantic flight. Five years to the day that American aviator Charles Lindbergh became the first pilot to accomplish a solo, nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean, female aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first pilot to repeat the feat, landing her plane in Ireland after flying across the North Atlantic. Earhart traveled over 2,000 miles from Newfoundland in just under 15 hours.   ... READ MORE

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