Dear Heloise: When the coffee can is close to empty, I turn the can upside down over a large bowl and hit the bottom and sides of the can. I can rotate it while hitting the sides until it looks clear ...

The Ames girls basketball team is closing the gap against top competition. The Little Cyclones hung around with Class 5A No. 8 Ankeny for the final three quarters in a 51-32 loss during their season ...

Wire ring jewelry making tutorials Ring size is an important factor when making and choosing a ring. I often make rings with fixed sizes to increase the durability and aesthetics of the rings. However ...

Quantic Dream is going way out of its comfort zone with a "competitive multiplayer" game in the works, on top of Star Wars: Eclipse, which is apparently alive and well after having been missing in ...

SYSTEM WILL SOON BE RETIRED. FOR 50 YEARS, THE AMES WASTE TO ENERGY SYSTEM HAS TURNED THE CITY’S GARBAGE INTO ELECTRICITY. KCCI PEPPER PEREIRA WENT TO THE FACILITY TO LEARN WHY AMES LEADERS THINK IT’S ...

It was the summer of 1974, and Bruce Springsteen was in the shit. Sure, the now 23-year-old had been signed to the legendary Columbia Records label a couple of years earlier. And signed by the ...

Two European satellites took photographs of a recent experiment, taken while facing the sun, where they mimicked the circumstances that cause a total solar eclipse. Launched last year, the Proba-3 ...

Zach Lenkaitis got off to a great start as a distance runner for Ames. As a freshman, Lenkaitis was nicknamed "Superman" by his coaches and teammates after having a big year in track. As a sophomore ...

QUINCY — Mikey Galligan and Marques Rodrigues-Smith were a trendy preseason pick to be one of the South Shore's top quarterback/receiver tandems this fall. Their production was never understated, but ...

In an age when you can get just about anything online, it’s probably no surprise that you can buy a diamond-making machine for $200,000 on Chinese eCommerce site Alibaba. If, like me, you haven’t been ...