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Animal Rescue League over capacity with record number of animals

The Animal Rescue League of Iowa hopes to place 200 pets in adoption or fostering in the next five days as the organization faces a record number of homeless animals in its care. Right now, …

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Bankers Trust reports earnings up 16% year-to-date

Bankers Trust Co. said today that second-quarter earnings were $9.4 million, a 10 percent increase over the same period last year.

 

For the first six months of the year, Bankers Trust had earnings of …

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Homebuilders’ confidence at highest level in nearly a decade

Builder confidence in the market for new single-family homes in July hit a level of 60 on the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index, the highest level since November 2005, according to …

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Clive residents happy with their man-made spaces

The city of Clive has received an award for listening to its residents. Based on a survey, the National Research Center Inc. said Clive has received the Voice of the People Award for Excellence in …

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OutcomesMTM to be acquired by Cardinal Health

Cardinal Health Inc., a publicly traded health care services company, today announced plans to acquire OutcomesMTM, a West Des Moines-based medication therapy management company. Terms of the acquisition of the privately owned company were not …

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Drake multimedia website, students win national awards

Urban Plains, an innovative multimedia website created by Drake University journalism students, has received top honors in the 2015 national journalism educators’ awards contest, the university announced. Urban Plains was named the best online magazine …

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Casey’s CEO Myers to retire next year

Robert Myers, chairman and CEO of Casey’s General Stores Inc., will retire next year after more than 26 years with the company. Casey’s board of directors named Terry Handley, current president and chief operating officer …

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Gravitate sets sessions on big data, UI Venture School

Gravitate’s lunch series on July 21 will include a presentation, aimed at software developers, on the Des Moines Area Regional Transit Authority’s recently released real-time data on Google’s General Transit Feed Specification in open data …

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Trial set for next year in Water Works nitrate case

U.S. District Judge Mark Bennett has set Aug. 8, 2016, as the start of proceedings in Des Moines Water Works’ lawsuit against three northwest Iowa counties the utility claims should be regulated under the federal …

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DuPont partners in Chinese cellulosic ethanol plant

DuPont today announced it has entered into a licensing agreement with Jilin Province New Tianlong Industry Co. Ltd. to begin the development of China’s first cellulosic ethanol manufacturing plant, located in Siping City, Jilin province, China. …