FROM KCCI: Iowa football vacates wins after investigation into 2022 tampering case. An investigation into allegations of tampering by the Iowa football coaching staff has found violations that will lead to multiple wins being vacated and one year of probation for the program. The NCAA announced Tuesday it found violations occurred in the Iowa football program when it recruited a player who was on another team. ... READ MORE

FROM WHO-TV: Ashley Okland Case: Defense drops bombshell claim that key evidence is missing or destroyed. West Des Moines police said the 27-year-old realtor was shot twice and killed in a model townhome on April 8, 2011. Last month, 53-year-old Kristin Ramsey was arrested after a grand jury indicted her on first-degree murder charges. She appeared in court on Friday seeking to have her $2-million cash-only bond reduced. The judge has yet to rule on the motion. ... READ MORE

FROM WOI: Severe storms bring large hail, brief tornadoes to central Iowa. Strong to severe thunderstorms moved through central and eastern Iowa Tuesday evening, producing large hail and at least two brief tornadoes. Emergency management officials reported two brief tornado touchdowns to the east and south of Eldora in Hardin County, one causing damage to a building and the other damaging some headstones in a cemetery. Bothwereshort-lived. ... READ MORE

FROM AROUND THE WORLD: At least 250 people missing, including Rohingya and Bangladeshis, after boat sinks in Andaman Sea. At least 250 people, including Rohingya refugees and Bangladeshi nationals, were missing after a boat capsized in the Andaman Sea recently on the way to Malaysia, according to the U.N. refugee and migration agencies. ... READ MORE

FROM AROUND THE NATION: Nature puts heat on blast as scorching temperatures in eastern US could smash records. A long-lasting weather pattern is poised to blast hot air like a furnace across the eastern United States, with the unusual heat wave threatening to shatter record high temperatures on Wednesday in big cities including New York, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. ... READ MORE

FROM AROUND THE STATE: Supervisors vote 4-1 for Chris Schwartz to resign after second sexual abuse arrest. The Black Hawk County Board of Supervisors has voted to call for the resignation of one of its own members. The board met Tuesday morning and voted 4-1 in favor of a resolution asking Supervisor Chris Schwartz to step down amid allegation of sexual abuse. Schwartz attended the meeting virtually. He was the only member who voted against the resolution. ... READ MORE

Woebegone Wednesday
McDonald's remains its own arch enemy when it comes to messaging. CEO Chris Kempczinski went on camera recently to introduce the chain's vaunted new Big Arch burger to their social media audience. In that video, he takes such a timid, tiny bite of the burger that top executives from Burger King and Wendy’s made similar social media spots taking huge enthusiastic bites of their signature burgers. Kempczinski went to Wall Street Journal for damage control, doing an interview with them explaining that his pathetic show of burger-love was his mommy's fault because she taught him "not to talk with my mouth full." He also tried to explain that McD was adjusting to "a new world of marketing" where corporations no longer have total control of their messaging. We aren't biting.

McDonald’s is still trying to come back from COVID-era price hikes that turned off their value customers. Yet their new Big Arch burger sells for $7.46 in Columbia, South Carolina, but for $12.99 in Lewiston, Maine. That is for the burger alone.

This is why Chili's is stealing market share from McD with their $10.99 "Best Meal Deal" including a half-pound burger with fries, a bottomless appetizer and a drink with free refills. 

Deals today
• The False Nine Social Club (206 Fifth St., Valley Junction) has hamburgers for $7 on Wednesdays.
 
• B&B Grocery, Meat and Deli (2001 S.E. Sixth St., Des Moines) has a Philly cheesesteak on special today.
 
• Crouse Cafe (115 E. Salem, Indianola) offers smoked pork chops as today's special. 
 
• Waveland Cafe (4708 University Ave., Des Moines) offers a wiener Wednesday special today. 
 
• Today is fried chicken day at Sale Barn Cafe (Lamoni).
 
• Wednesdays are Chicago Italian beef sandwich day at Graziano Brothers (1601 S. Union St., Des Moines).
 
•  AJ's (Prairie Meadows) has a new early bird menu on Wednesday and Thursday from 4-6 p.m. Half-pound burgers with frites $15, pasta and chicken dinners, $20-22, seafood and steak dinners $27-30. Prime rib dinners for $30 all night. 
 
• Hy-Vees offer chicken and noodles dinners for $5 on Wednesdays.
 
• Clyde's Fine Diner (111 E. Grand Ave., East Village) has a four-course tasting menu tonight for $125.
 
• Guesthouse Tavern and Oyster (9500 University, West Des Moine) offers Walleye Wednesday with dinners $21.
 
• Jack’s Place (6112 S.W. Ninth, Des Moines) has 10 wings for $10 Wednesdays.
 
• Wednesday at Short E's BBQ (8805 Chambray Blvd., Johnston) the lunch special is tacos and taco salads and Wednesday evening is rib night.
 
• Fareway is offering $5 rotisserie chicken on Wednesdays. Other days they cost about $9.
 
• Whatcha 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.
 
• Club 2000 (422 Indianola Road, Des Moines) offers 10 wings for $10 on Wednesdays and steak night, too.
 
• 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. 
 
• 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. It's also hot beef sandwich day at Chicago Speakeasy (1520 Euclid Ave.) where the gravy is made with pan drippings.
 
• Wine bottles are half price on Wednesdays at Trostel's Greenbriar (5910 Merle Hay Road, Johnston), Table 128 (220 S.W. Ninth, Des Moines) and The Continental (407 E. Fifth St., Des Moines). 
 
• G Mig's (128 Fifth St., Valley Junction) offers a Wednesday special perciatelli pasta with prosciutto, sundried tomatoes, zucchini, basil, white wine, cream and romano cheese, 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.
 
• 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, 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).
 
• Chuck's (3610 Sixth Ave., Des Moines) offers $5 off pizza on Wednesdays.
 
• Kwik Stars' Wednesday special is eight pieces of fried chicken for $10. Their fried chicken is ridiculously good for a convenience store.  
 
• On Wednesdays, flatbreads are $10 at Tito's Lounge (3916 N.W. Urbandale Drive, Urbandale). 
 
• Jethro's have $9.95 breaded pork tenderloin sandwiches, including a side of choice, on Wednesdays.  
 
• The Station on Ingersoll (3124 Ingersoll Ave., Des Moines) has a Wednesday day special of chopped cheeseburger with a side for $12.

•  Price Choppers have sales through Monday on strawberries at $1.99/pound and Nathan's hot dogs at $4.39/pack.
 
— Jim Duncan, jd91446@aol.com

1947: Jackie Robinson becomes first African American player in Major League Baseball. On April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson, age 28, becomes the first African American player in Major League Baseball's modern era when he steps onto Ebbets Field in Brooklyn to compete for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Robinson broke the color barrier in a sport that had been segregated for more than 50 years. Exactly 50 years later, on April 15, 1997, Robinson’s groundbreaking career was honored and his uniform number, 42, was retired from Major League Baseball by Commissioner Bud Selig in a ceremony attended by over 50,000 fans at New York City’s Shea Stadium. Robinson’s was the first-ever number retired by all teams in the league. … READ MORE

1912: Titanic sinks. At 2:20 a.m. on April 15, 1912, the British ocean liner Titanic sinks into the North Atlantic Ocean about 400 miles south of Newfoundland, Canada. The massive ship, which carried 2,200 passengers and crew, had struck an iceberg two and half hours before.. … READ MORE

2013: Three people killed, hundreds injured in Boston Marathon bombing. On April 15, 2013, two bombs go off near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing three spectators and wounding more than 260 other people in attendance. Four days later, after an intense manhunt that shut down the Boston area, police captured one of the bombing suspects, 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev; his older brother and fellow suspect, 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev, died following a shootout with law enforcement earlier that same day. … READ MORE

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