FROM KCCI: Plane performs emergency landing at Ankeny golf course. A plane was forced to land at a central Iowa golf course Thursday morning. Ankeny police confirmed to KCCI a small plane landed at the 12th hole of the Briarwood Golf Club at around 11:30 a.m. The pilot reported an engine malfunction while flying nearby and was forced to make an emergency landing. ... READ MORE

FROM WHO-TV: Search for suspect in Des Moines bank robbery underway. The search for a suspect accused of a robbing a bank in Des Moines on Thursday continues. At around noon the Des Moines Police Department was called to the US Bank at 2401 University Avenue for a report of a robbery. According to the DMPD, the suspect was armed with a gun, but no injuries occurred. ... READ MORE

FROM WOI: Man, Git N Go clerk allegedly conspired to rob gas station. Two people are charged in connection to an armed robbery at a Des Moines Git N Go gas station in early July. 35-year-old Blake Christy and 38-year-old Samantha Buchman, a Git N Go clerk, were arrested in Ottumwa Thursday for their roles in the incident, the Polk County Sheriff's Office said. ... READ MORE

FROM AROUND THE WORLD: French President Macron says France will recognize Palestine as a state. French President Emmanuel Macron announced Thursday that France will recognize Palestine as a state, in a bold diplomatic move amid snowballing global anger over people starving in Gaza. Israel denounced the decision. ... READ MORE

FROM AROUND THE NATION: Hulk Hogan, icon in professional wrestling, dies at age 71. Hulk Hogan, the mustachioed, headscarf-wearing, bicep-busting icon of professional wrestling who turned the sport into a massive business and stretched his influence into TV, pop culture and conservative politics during a long and scandal-plagued second act, died Thursday in Florida at age 71. ... READ MORE

FROM AROUND THE STATE: California rules make Iowa pork more expensive. The price of pork has gone up because of California’s new law regarding how producers raise hogs, according to the USDA. The 2018 law, Proposition 12, requires that producers meet certain standards on how they raise their animals if they want to sell the product in California. ... READ MORE

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Storm chances yet today then temperatures heat up into the mid 90s again.

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One interesting effect of the Genius Act’s mainstreaming of digital financial assets is that big retailers like Walmart and Amazon are now seriously working on ways to replace credit cards — and their fees — with their own crypto credit, backed by other assets like UD dollars. Next step, restaurants, at least huge ones, could by-pass credit card payments and their high fees with similar digital payments. Think about that the next time you see a “credit card fee” added to your restaurant bill.

Tesla opened its first diner, on Santa Monica Boulevard in LA. The company described it as a retro futuristic diner with George Jepson influences. They hope to open them across America. 

Weekend deals
• Hy-Vee Market Grilles are running a breakfast special Monday through Friday, 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. of three choices of two eggs, 2 strips bacon, 2 sausage links, 2 pancakes or 2 slices toast for $5 through Aug 3.

• Raisin' Canes will add an extra chicken finger to all box combos this Sunday. 

• Beaver Tap (4050 Urbandale Ave., Des Moines) offers $9 Philly cheesesteaks or hot honey chicken plus $8 bisuit and gravy breakfasts on Fridays.

• Smoking Goat Pub (3015 Merle Hay Road, Des Moines) offers walleye or steak dinner specials tonight and karaoke after 9 p.m. They have a 10 for $10 wings deal on Sundays. 

• Irina's Steak & Seafood (650 S. Prairie View Drive, Unit 100, West Des Moines) has a three-course Sunday dinner for two featuring filet and shrimp for $85 all summer. 

• IHMVCU hosts Food Truck Frenzy with the first 50 people in line at 3990 Merle Hay Road eating free. This Friday, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. will be catered by Sticky Fingers. 

• Friday is Soul Food day at Joppa Experience (1829 Sixth Ave., Des Moines) with fried chicken and oxtail stew joining the usual menu. 

• Because Sunday is an Indiana Fever game day, the West Des Moines Jethro's will have a "Fever Reliever" special of any two appetizers on the Happy Hour menu and two pints of domestic beer for $22. Sunday special is papa cheeseburgers and side for $9.95. Today they have BBQ melt and side deal for $9.95. 

• G Mig's has Friday prime rib dinners for $29.75 or crab stuffed shrimp with asparagus for $25.95. 

• Django (1420 Locust St., Des Moines) offers a Sunday Supper with a roasted half chicken as the main course. The meal includes house salad with red onion, apple, Roquefort and candied walnuts; fresh baguette with whipped butter; roasted fingerling potatoes with fresh herbs; and sautéed haricot verts with caramelized onions and lardons. $30  

• Table 128 (220 S.W. Ninth St., Des Moines) features a Saturday tasting menu for $58.

• Heavenly Asian (225 Fifth St., Valley Junction) has an all-day Friday sale on orange chicken served with soup, crab Rangoon, egg roll and rice. $14, available for dine-in and phone carry-out.

• Fish Fry Friday specials can be found at Machine Shed (11151 Hickman Road, Urbandale), Johnny's Italian Steakhouses, Red Lobster (3838 Westown Parkway, West Des Moines), Cracker Barrel (11701 University, Clive), Hy-Vee stores and Bevy’s Tavern (1300 50th St., West Des Moines).

• Brenda Tran offers a fabulous Friday buffet every second and fourth Friday at Vietnam Cafe - Merle Hay Mall Food Court, 11 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. - $18.95.  

• Bawarchi (6630 Mills Civic Parkway, West Des Moines) has Friday-Sunday specials on paneer kebabs, chicken curry and goat curry.

• Mickey's in Yale (217 Main St., Yale) has hot beef sandwich lunches and all you can eat fish dinner specials today.

• Chicago Speakeasy (1520 Euclid Ave., Des Moines) offers BBQ beef and marinated roast beef sandwiches on special for Friday lunch.

• The Continental (407 E. Fifth St., Des Moines) offers BOGO flatbreads Fridays and a blackened chicken sandwich and fries for $12 on Saturdays. 

• 801 Chophouse (801 Grand Ave., Des Moines) offers Sunday supper specials that deliver deep discounts on filet, prime rib and red king salmon dinners.

• Destination Grille (2491 E. First St., Grimes) has a $40 prime rib dinner special Friday and Saturday. 

• Tito’s Lounge (3916 N.W. Urbandale Drive, Urbandale) now has brunch on Fridays as well as Saturdays and Sundays. 

• Court Avenue Brewing Company (309 Court Ave., Des Moines) hosts Saturday and Sunday breakfast buffets for $23.99.

• Friday night is paella time at Purveyor (505 E. Grand, Des Moines, officially, but really on E. Fifth), real Valenciana paella.

• Haiku (1350 31st St., Des Moines) offers free tom ka kai and fried won tons with lunch entrees today.

• Maxie's Supper Club's (1311 Grand Ave., West Des Moines) Friday special is chicken and noodles over mashed potatoes - $16.95 all day. They also have prime rib dinners on Friday and Saturday for dinner only, $30-38.   

• Chicken Heat (1101 Army Post Road, Des Moines) offers $1 wings on Friday.  

•  Price Choppers have sales on stone fruits at $2.49/pound, blueberries and red or white grapes at $1.99/pound, Talenti ice cream at $3.99/pint, and swai or pollock frozen filets at $3.49/pound through Monday.

• Fresh Thyme has a sale on jumbo golden dew melons at $4.99, wild swordfish or ahi steaks at $10.99/pound and Michigan blueberries at $1.99/pint through Tuesday.

• Hy-Vees have a Friday through Sunday special of two slabs of cooked ribs for $25 through Aug. 3.

•  Aldi stores have specials through Saturday on avocados at 69 cents, mangos at 59 cents and St. Louis ribs at $2.49/pound.

•  Westown Tap (3530 Westown Parkway, West Des Moines) offers $12 flatbreads on Fridays.

Music
Wayne Page/Tanner Taylor Duo plays Louie's Wine Dive (4040 University Ave., Des Moines) on Sunday at 5 p.m. El Toreado Mexican Bar & Grill on EP True has live music from The Juan and Only on Friday from 6 p.m. Willie James Shay plays Sonny’s Pizza Bistro Friday at 5:30 p.m. The Squares play Kelly's Little Nipper at 7 p.m. Friday. Orphan Annie Trio plays Truman’s Pizza Tavern at 5 p.m. Friday. Brother Trucker plays Captain Roy's at 6 p.m. Saturday. Fred Gazzo Quintet plays Anna Dolce Ristorante, West Des Moines, at 6 p.m. Saturday.

— Jim Duncan, jd91446@aol.com

1878: Black Bart strikes again. On July 25, 1878, Black Bart robs a Wells Fargo stagecoach in California. Wearing a flour sack over his head, the armed robber stole the small safe box with less than $400 and a passenger’s diamond ring and watch. When the empty box was recovered, a taunting poem signed “Black Bart” was found inside. ... READ MORE

1961: President Kennedy talks to Americans about the need for bomb shelters. On July 25, 1961, in a televised address to the American people about the Berlin Crisis, President John F. Kennedy speaks soberly about the need for nuclear fallouts shelters. He announces that he has instructed Congress to identify spaces that could be used as bomb shelters, and to stock them with "minimal essentials for survival" to protect as many citizens from atomic fallout as possible in the event of a nuclear exchange with the Soviet Union. Kennedy assured the public that the U.S. civil defense program would soon begin providing such protection for every American. ... READ MORE

1978: World’s first “test tube” baby born. On July 25, 1978, Louise Joy Brown, the world’s first baby to be conceived via in-vitro fertilization (IVF) is born at Oldham and District General Hospital in Manchester, England, to parents Lesley and Peter Brown. The healthy baby was delivered shortly before midnight by caesarean section and weighed in at five pounds, 12 ounces. ... READ MORE

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