FROM KCCI: Thousands without electricity in Des Moines metro. Several thousand residents in the western part of the Des Moines metro are without electricity on Tuesday night. As of 10:30 p.m., MidAmerican Energy Co. shows outages affecting just over 4,300 customers. The majority of the affected customers appear to be in the Grimes/Urbandale/Johnston and Waukee/Clive/West Des Moines areas. ... READ MORE

FROM WHO-TV: Post-Thanksgiving snow could impact Iowa travel. The biggest weather issue is the wind. The winds will be gusting close to 50 MPH on Wednesday morning. The strong northwest wind will continue to make it feel colder on Wednesday. Travel conditions will be dry and windy in Iowa on Wednesday. Parts of Minnesota are under a Winter Storm Warning tonight with snow and blowing snow on the way. ... READ MORE

FROM WOI: Marshalltown police charge suspect with vehicular homicide after deadly hit-and-run. A Marshalltown man is facing multiple charges after he was arrested in connection to a deadly hit-and-run that occurred in early November. Marshalltown police and medics responded to a report of an accident at 3rd Avenue and Main Street just after 10 p.m. on Nov. 1, according to a press release. Witnesses told officers a truck had struck a woman and took off without stopping. ... READ MORE

FROM AROUND THE WORLD: Kremlin confirms US envoy’s visit as talks on ending war in Ukraine gain momentum. A senior Kremlin official confirmed Wednesday that U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff is set to visit Moscow next week as efforts to find a consensus on ending the nearly four-year war between Russia and Ukraine pick up speed. ... READ MORE

FROM AROUND THE NATION: DC Mayor Bowser announces she won’t seek fourth term, as Trump’s federal intervention continues.Muriel Bowser, the mayor of Washington D.C., announced on Tuesday that she will not be seeking re-election next year, a decision that came as she has had to confront a federal law enforcement intervention into her city launched by President Donald Trump. ... READ MORE

FROM AROUND THE STATE: Simpson College names Susan Stuebner as next president. The Simpson College Board of Trustees has decided on its next president. Susan D. Stuebner has been selected to serve as the president of Simpson College. She was unanimously appointed by the Board of Trustees. Stuebner is currently serving as the interim president. She was hired to fill the open position after the sudden death of Jay Byers last spring. ... READ MORE

Clear Mortgage meteorology

Show moves in Friday, beginning a series of days with precipitation. Next week will start out colder, with temperatures in the 20s and more snow.

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

Woebegone Wednesday
Where did the glamor go? Prix Versailles is likely the world's ultimate accolade in the design and architecture worlds. They hand out "beautiful design" awards annually across several categories. Probably their most famous award is for train stations — they are not an American organization after all. This year's winners in their "World’s Most Beautiful Passenger Stations" competition were Gadigal Station in Sydney; Mons Station in Belgium; Baiyun Station in Guangzhou, China; Saint-Denis–Pleyel Station and Villejuif–Gustave Roussy Station in France; and KAFD Station and Qasr Al Hokm Station in Riyadh. All are pretty much brand new. Gone apparently is the glamor of Grand Central Station in New York.

The U.S. fared badly across the Prix Versailles board. Our biggest successes were in: restaurants with New York's Beefbar and Miami Beach's Japón among the 16 most beautiful; museums where Omaha's fabulously remodeled Joslyn and the Cleveland Museum of Natural History rated among the top 7; airports where San Francisco and Portland were among the best six; and sports stadiums/arenas where both the Intuit Dome in Inglewood and Caesar's Superdome in New Orleans were cited among six. Only New York's The Manner made the list of 14 hotels. The U.S. was shut out completely in the college campus awards. Bet the French judges haven't seen Texas Tech, the U.S. Air Force Academy or University of Wisconsin Madison's campuses.

Where's the egg nog? Kalona Organic announced they will produce none of their prize-winning egg nog this year. Bird flu created too much uncertainty to secure enough egg contracts at reasonable prices.

Deals today 
(The holiday may see some of these places closed this week) 

• Scott Davis/John Mattingly Duo play Louie’s Wine Dive at 6.

• Fareway is offering $5 rotisserie chicken on Wednesdays. Other days they cost about $9.

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

• 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.

• Gilroy's (1238 Eighth St., West Des Moines) has all you can eat fried chicken dinners on Wednesdays, $23.99 after 5 p.m. 

• 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. 

• Wine bottles are half price on Wednesdays at Trostel's Greenbriar (5910 Merle Hay Road, Johnston), Irina's (650 S. Prairie View Drive, West Des Moines) and The Continental (407 East Fifth St., Des Moines). 

• G Mig's (128 Fifth St., Valley Junction) offers a Wednesday special lasagna dinner plus 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.

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

• 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.

• 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.  

• Fresh Thyme (2900 University Ave., West Des Moines) begins a week-long sale on 80-20 grass fed and finished burger at $3.99/pound, lobster tails at $5.99 and white or bella mushrooms at $1.99/half pound.

• Price Choppers have sales on frozen turkeys at 99 cents/pound, celery at 88 cents, and Birdseye frozen vegetables at 88 cents through Dec. 1.

— Jim Duncan, jd91446@aol.com

1864: “Alice in Wonderland” manuscript is sent as a Christmas present. On Nov. 26, 1864, Oxford mathematician Charles Lutwidge Dodgson sends a handwritten manuscript called Alice’s Adventures Under Ground to 12-year-old Alice Liddell. ... READ MORE

1922: Archaeologists enter tomb of King Tut. In Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, British archaeologists Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first souls to enter King Tutankhamen’s tomb in more than 3,000 years. Tutankhamen’s sealed burial chambers were miraculously intact, and inside was a collection of several thousand priceless objects, including a gold coffin containing the mummy of the teenage king. ... READ MORE

1948: The first Polaroid camera is sold. On Nov. 26, 1948, the first “Land Camera” — better known today as the instant Polaroid camera—goes on sale at Jordan Marsh department store in Boston for $89.75. The invention of Edwin H. Land, who had enrolled at Harvard to study physics in 1926, but dropped out to conduct his own research, becomes an instant hit and sells out within minutes that first day. ... READ MORE

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