FROM KCCI: Legionnaires’ cases in Iowa prompt CDC support, no spread expected. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is assisting Iowa health officials as they investigate more than two dozen cases of Legionnaires’ disease in Marshall County. The CDC said it has been consulting with the Iowa Department of Health and Human Services since Aug. 29. ... READ MORE

FROM WHO-TV: 2025 farm income projections paint grim picture for farmers trying to break even. The U.S. Department of Agriculture released a new report where net farm income projections are expected to increase in 2025, but the margins are expected to grow thinner for farmers.  ... READ MORE

FROM WOI: Johnston schools dispense love of reading with new vending machines. The Johnston Community School District recently installed vending machines, but they're not your average snack dispensers. Thanks to an anonymous donor, all five Johnston elementary schools will have a new book vending machine in their school library. ... READ MORE

FROM AROUND THE WORLD: Poland says it shot down Russian drones that violated its airspace during strikes on Ukraine. Poland said early Wednesday that multiple Russian drones entered and were shot down over its territory with help from NATO allies, describing the incident as an “act of aggression” carried out during a wave of Russian strikes on Ukraine. ... READ MORE

FROM AROUND THE NATION: Man faces federal charge in killing of Ukrainian woman on Charlotte train. The Justice Department on Tuesday charged a man accused of fatally stabbing a Ukrainian refugee on a North Carolina commuter train last month with a federal crime that could carry the death penalty. ... READ MORE

FROM AROUND THE STATE: Southeast Iowa town votes to un-incorporate in 'swan song' election. Residents of Swan in Marion County have voted to un-incorporate their town in a special election on Tuesday. The population of Swan is 70, and 34 people cast ballots in the election. ... READ MORE

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Heat builds in today and lasts through the weekend. Rain chances return Sunday.

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 Woebegone Wednesday
America saw two of its most famous examples of marketing low prices lose their long-held status as world champions. The same Chinese company dethroned both McDonalds and Costco in each case. Mixue Ice Cream & Tea (pronounced ME-schway) passed Big Mac as world's largest restaurant by store locations; then it beat out Costco by selling more "loss leader" products than the American company's "$1.50 kosher hot dog and soft drink." Mixue did it with their 40 cents ice cream cone. (It costs a bit more in wealthy Singapore.) Though Mixue calls the cone its signature item, it makes its money selling soft drinks — more than seven billion last year. Those typically cost about a dollar.

Those of you who bet the celebrity marriage of clean shaven James L Kraft and Henry J Heinz of the gargantuan mustache would not last 10 years lost, but barely. The Kraft Heinz company announced recently that they were splitting up after 10 years and two months. Cheese and pickles are going their separate ways. As usual, it will be the offspring that suffer. Psychologists will be provided for young burgers and hot dogs.

Deals today 
• Fareway is matching Costco's other legendary loss leader — the $5 rotisserie chicken. But only on Wednesdays. Other days, they cost about $9.

• Whatcha Smokin? (Highway 17, Luther) has a brisket burnt ends special on Wednesdays. 

• The Bistro at Iowa Culinary Institute opens its fall season today in Building 7 of Des Moines Area Community College in Ankeny. Lunch will be served Wednesdays through Fridays till Dec. 5. $17 for a buffet or three-course a la carte with a drink. 11:15 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.

• Kelly's Little Nipper (1701 E. Grand Ave., Des Moines) offers any burger with a side for $10 on Wednesdays. 

• Exile (1514 Walnut St., Des Moines) offers a $12 burger basket with fries and a beer on Wednesdays. 

• Beaver Tap (4050 Urbandale Ave., Des Moines) offers $8 French toast or pancake breakfasts and $2 tacos, $9 wraps and $10 half pounds of wings on Wednesdays. 

• Johnny's Italian Steakhouses have a chicken Madeira special on Wednesdays before 4 p.m., $15 including beverage.

• Smoking Goat Pub (3015 Merle Hay Road, Des Moines) has a $10 classic burger and beer all day. 

• Paula's (524 Elm, Valley Junction) has a Wednesday special beef stew with biscuit $13.50.

• Gilroy's (1238 Eighth St., West Des Moines) has all you can eat fried chicken dinners on Wednesdays, $23.99 after 5 p.m. Brian Herrin will play on the patio there from 6 p.m. tonight.

• Haiku (1315 31st St., Des Moines) lets kids 11 and younger eat free with adults on Wednesdays. Hot sour soup and eggrolls are comped today with lunch entrees.  

• 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. 

• G Mig's (128 Fifth St., Valley Junction) offers a special cheese manicotti and meatballs dinner today with salad and garlic bread for $19.25.

• 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.

• Tacos Mariana's (1305 University Ave., Des Moines) and The Station (3124 Ingersoll Ave., Des Moines) have specials on tacos today. 

• Village Inns offer free pie with entrees on Wednesdays. 

• It's lasagna day at Maxie's Supper Club (1311 Grand Ave., West Des Moines) and breaded pork tenderloin day at Eastside Eddie's (3517 E. 26th St., Des Moines).

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

• Chuck's (3610 Sixth Ave., Des Moines) offers $5 off pizza on Wednesdays.

• Bordenaro'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.

• 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 with fries for $10.99 at Tito's Lounge (3916 N.W. Urbandale Drive, Urbandale). 

• Jethro's have $9.95 BPT sandwiches, including a side of choice, on Wednesdays.  

• Hy-Vee Market Grilles are offering a cheeseburger and fries Wednesday special for $8.

• Robert Deitch plays Either/Or tonight at 6 p.m.

— Jim Duncan, jd91446@aol.com

1897: First drunk driving arrest. On Sept. 10, 1897, a 25-year-old London taxi driver named George Smith becomes the first person ever arrested for drunk driving after slamming his cab into a building. Smith later pleaded guilty and was fined 25 shillings. ... READ MORE

1977: The guillotine falls silent. On Sept. 10, 1977, at Baumetes Prison in Marseille, France, Hamida Djandoubi, a Tunisian immigrant convicted of murder, becomes the last person executed by guillotine. ... READ MORE

2008: CERN Large Hadron Collider is powered up. On Sept. 10, 2008, scientists successfully flip the switch for the first time on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) lab in Geneva, kicking off what many called history’s biggest science experiment. ... READ MORE

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