FROM KCCI: Why more Iowans are living past 100 and their secrets to a long life. Millennials make up the largest population in Iowa, but an unsuspecting portion of the population is becoming the fastest-growing. Iowa ranks among the top 10 states in the country with the most centenarians. Centenarians are people over the age of 100. The most recent 2020 U.S. Census counted 1,032 centenarians living throughout the state. In 2010, there were only 846.  ... READ MORE

FROM WHO-TV: Miss Kitty’s owner apologizes for ‘just a costume’ comment about man dressed as a Nazi in his bar.  After photos circulated online of a man dressed as a Nazi in a bar on Halloween night, the bar owner is responding to criticism he was met with online. The incident took place inside Miss Kitty’s Country Bar in Clive. Viewers shared some images of a man dressed in a Nazi soldier uniform embellished with a swastika and wearing a cropped mustache. The same viewer who sent those photos was also at the bar last Friday night. She sent WHO 13 News a video of herself confronting the bar owner about the man’s costume where the owner appears to defend the man wearing the garb. ... READ MORE

FROM WOI: DMARC Food Pantry Network sets records on Monday. The Urbandale Food Pantry is one of 14 overseen by DMARC Food Pantry Network. It saw record-breaking numbers Monday, as did the network as a whole, with just over 2,300 visitors stopping by one of the 14 locations. ... READ MORE

FROM AROUND THE WORLD: Powerful 6.3 earthquake hits northern Afghanistan, killing 20 and damaging historic Blue Mosque. A powerful 6.3 magnitude earthquake shook northern Afghanistan before dawn Monday, killing at least 20 people and injuring more than 640 others, as well as damaging the historic Blue Mosque, officials said. ... READ MORE

FROM AROUND THE NATION: Dick Cheney, one of the most powerful and polarizing vice presidents in US history, dies at 84. Dick Cheney, the hard-charging conservative who became one of the most powerful and polarizing vice presidents in U.S. history and a leading advocate for the invasion of Iraq, has died at age 84. Cheney died Monday night due to complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease, according to a statement from his family. ... READ MORE

FROM AROUND THE STATE: Iowa teens charged in Halloween night shooting near elementary school. Two teens have been charged in a shooting that injured one person near a Cedar Rapids school during trick-or-treating Halloween night, KCRG reports.  ... READ MORE

Clear Mortgage meteorology

Mostly dry and mild this week. A rain chance late Thursday evening into early Friday, then another one on Saturday. Turning colder Sunday.

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

And it produces too many apples — so many that they need to be thinned for the sake of the trees. Honeycrisp has the highest mortality rate of all picked apples. About 25% of healthy Honeycrisps in December will be ruined by summer. Cosmic crisp was invented by Washington State University scientists to replace honeycrisp with a less difficult apple in 2017, but consumers still demanded the original. Honeycrisps should cost two or three times more than other apples, yet they don't, at least not in autumn when they are abundant. Last month, Price Chopper put honeycrisps on sale for 99 cents a pound, less than all other apples.
 
Deals of note
 • Fall squash dinner is tomorrow at the Wallace House (756 16th St., Des Moines). Duck confit will feature with Blue Hubbard soup, Delicata, pumpkin, and butternut squash courses.  

• Hy-Vee Market Grilles offer a Tuesday special America's cut pork chop dinner for $8.

• Mullet’s Norwalk offers a free kids meal per adult meal on Tuesday’s 4 p.m. to close.

• Mickey's Irish Pub (50 S.E. Laurel St., Waukee) has a special $7 half-pound burger with a side all day Tuesday. 

• Kelly's Little Nipper (1701 E. Grand Ave., Des Moines) offers a "Tendy's Tuesday" pork tenderloin basket with a drink for $11.50.

• Eastside Eddie's (3517 E. 26th St., Des Moines) has a Tuesday special cheeseburger with fries, tots or salad and a drink for $10.

• Beaver Tap (4050 Urbandale Ave., Des Moines) offers $7 breakfasts and $8 burgers Tuesdays.

• Pelican Post (265 50th St., West Des Moines) offers a special smashburger with cheese, fries and a draft beer for $10 on Tuesdays.

• Johnny's Italian Steakhouses have a beef stroganoff special on Tuesdays, $14 including beverage.

• Smoking Goat Pub (3015 Merle Hay Road) hosts 222 BBQ today from 5-9 p.m.

• Red Robin stores are featuring a $10 cheeseburger with an "endless side" on Tuesdays.

• Jethro's Tuesday special is 2 pounds of bone-in smoked wings for the price of one. 

• Paula's (524 Elm St., Valley Junction) runs a Tuesday special hot beef sandwich for $13.50. 

• Kids meals are half price till 2 p.m. today at Machine Shed (11151 Hickman Road, Urbandale).  

• Taco Tuesday brings serious discounts to Mariscos El Pirata (6050 S.E. 14th St., Des Moines), La Familia (1610 Sixth Ave., Des Moines), all Taco John's, all Abelardo's, all Fernando’s, Malo (900 Mulberry St., Des Moines), Beaver Tap (4050 Urbandale Ave., Des Moines), Club 2000 (422 Indianola Road, Des Moines), The Continental, (407 E. Fifth St., Des Moines), Gilroy's (1238 Eighth St., West Des Moines)  and Faustino's. 

• Today is beef and noodles day at Maxie's Supper Club (1311 Grand Ave., West Des Moines).

• Django (1420 Locust St., Des Moines) has happy hour all night Tuesdays. That means super deals on oysters, shrimp, duck frites, poutine, charcuterie, cheese boards, beers, wine and classic martinis.

• Sully's (806 First St., West Des Moines) has a burger basket special for $12 today.

• Destination Grille  (2491 E. First St., Grimes) hosts a Tuesday burger and beer special - half-pound burger, chips and dip, with a tap beer of choice, $15. 

• The Station on Ingersoll (3124 Ingersoll Ave., Des Moines) has a tenderloin Tuesday special with BPT and fries for $10.

• Curbin Cuisine (1325 S.W. Oralabor Drive, Ankeny) offers cheeseburgers and fries for $7.99 on Tuesdays.

• G Mig’s (128 Fifth St., Valley Junction) offers a Tuesday special BBQ night with ribs or brisket dinners for 19.95.

• Ruby Tuesdays offers $5.95 burgers with fries on Tuesdays.

— Jim Duncan, jd91446@aol.com

 1924: California legalizes professional boxing after 10-year ban. On Nov. 4, 1924, California voters pass a measure to legalize professional boxing, a sport outlawed in the state because of safety concerns since 1914. "Manly Art Returns," reads a headline in one newspaper. ... READ MORE

1922: Entrance to King Tut’s tomb discovered. British archaeologist Howard Carter and his workmen discover a step leading to the tomb of King Tutankhamen in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt on Nov. 4, 1922. When Carter first arrived in Egypt in 1891, most of the ancient Egyptian tombs had been discovered, though the little-known King Tutankhamen, who had died when he was 18, was still unaccounted for. A ... READ MORE

1979: Iran hostage crisis begins after U.S. embassy in Tehran is stormed. Student followers of the Ayatollah Khomeini send shock waves across America when they storm the U.S. embassy in Tehran on Nov. 4, 1979. The radical Islamic fundamentalists took 90 hostages. The students were enraged that the deposed Shah had been allowed to enter the United States for medical treatment and they threatened to murder hostages if any rescue was attempted. Days later, Iran’s provincial leader resigned, and the Ayatollah Khomeini, the leader of Iran’s fundamentalist revolutionaries, took full control of the country—and the fate of the hostages. ... READ MORE

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