FROM KCCI: Semi-truck transporting hogs catches fire along I-35. Ankeny police are working to figure out what led to a semi-truck catching fire on Interstate 35 no Tuesday afternoon. Around 12:30 p.m., a semi-truck carrying hogs was engulfed in flames just north of the East mixmaster. Ankeny police say no one was injured, but it's unclear if any hogs were hurt. ... READ MORE

FROM WHO-TV: Summer season at Saylorville Lake will be missing key attraction. Summertime at Saylorville Lake this year will be missing a key component. There will not be a restaurant or bar open at the marina. Some positive changes are in the works, but they will impact the 2025 season. ... READ MORE

FROM WOI: Gov. Kim Reynolds signs 17 bills into law Tuesday. Among the slew of bills signed into law, topics include DEI, government employee paid leave and the state's definition of bullying. ... READ MORE

Clear Mortgage meteorology

We’ll see isolated late-day showers both today and Thursday. Finally warming into the weekend.

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

Woebegone Wednesday
Nebraska became the first state to ban soft drinks and energy drinks from SNAP eligibility. That goes into effect Jan. 1, 2026. Arkansas, Colorado and Kansas are also bringing it to votes. In Nebraska, soda pop was the number use of SNAP largess. All those states rank high on obesity rate charts.

Deals today
 • Waterfront's Wednesday special this week is Bairdi snow crab. Bairdi are the largest of snow crabs and also known as queen crab. We think they are special.  

• 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.) 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., Des Moines), and barbecue ribs evening at G Migg's (128 Fifth St., Valley Junction).

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

• Curbin Cuisine (1325 S.W. Oralabor, Ankeny) has $7 gyros on Wednesdays. 

• 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. They are promoting the chicken with several other top deals through June 3.  

• On Wednesdays, you can get any burger, wrap or sandwich with fries for $10.99 at Tito's Lounge (3916 N.W. Urbandale Drive, Urbandale). 

• Dan Medeiros plays Stuffed Olive at 6 tonight.  
 
• Jethro's have $9.95 breaded pork tenderloin sandwiches, including  side of choice, on Wednesdays. Because tonight is an Indiana WNBA game night, the West Des Moines Jethro's has a "Fever Reliever" special of any two appetizers on the Happy Hour menu and two pints of domestic beer for $22. 
 
•  Price Choppers have sales on southern peaches $1.49/pound, frozen chicken wings at $1.99/pound and purified water for $2.99/24 bottles, through Monday.

• Fresh Thyme (2900 University Ave., West Des Moines) begins a week-long sale on USDA prime T-bones at $16.99/pound and BOGOs on 300 items, through Tuesday. 

— Jim Duncan, jd91446@aol.com

1861: President Lincoln’s suspension of habeas corpus is challenged. On May 28, 1861, Chief Justice Roger B. Taney of Maryland issues Ex parte Merryman, challenging the authority of President Abraham Lincoln and the U.S. military to suspend the writ of habeas corpus (the legal procedure that prevents the government from holding an individual indefinitely without showing cause) in Maryland. ... READ MORE

1936: A single horsehair helps convict the killer of Nancy Titterton. On May 28, 1936, a killer is convicted on the basis of a single horse hair. That equine strand was the decisive clue in the rape-murder of Nancy Titterton in New York City. Titterton, a novelist and the wife of NBC executive Lewis Titterton, was raped and strangled in her upscale home on Beekman Place on the morning of April 10, 1936. The only clues left behind were a foot-long piece of cord that had been used to tie Titterton’s hands and a single horsehair found on her bedspread. ... READ MORE

1983: Irene Cara has a No. 1 pop hit with the “Flashdance” theme. Irene Cara’s song “Flashdance (What a Feeling)," from the Flashdance movie soundtrack, goes to the top of the U.S. pop charts on May 28, 1983.. ... READ MORE

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