🌱 How a Durant bowling team grabbed the national lead by 12 pins

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• How a Durant bowling team grabbed the national lead by 12 pins

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• Friday: A severe afternoon t-storm, with a high of 81 and low of 38 degrees.
• Saturday: Turning sunny; windy, cooler, temps: high: 51, low: 33.
• Sunday: Mostly sunny and breezy, with a high of 54 and low of 31 degrees.

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📰 News we're reading

• Iowa team takes Classified lead at 2026 USBC Open Championships (bowl.com) — A bowling team from Durant’s Idle Hour Lanes 2 has surged into the Classified Team lead at the 2026 USBC Open Championships in Reno, edging a Maryland squad by just 12 pins. Led by strong late-frame strikes and a clutch 10th frame from anchor Ben Huston, the Durant group topped 2,652 and now sits atop a field of thousands of bowlers.
   

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🗞 Nearby News

Muscatine

• Laura Ingalls Wilder's hometown excited for Netflix's ‘Little House on the Prairie' reboot (lacrossetribune.com)

Davenport

• After four seasons at Illinois, Ty Rodgers headed to transfer portal (muscatinejournal.com)
• Sale pending on former Quad-City Times building (kwqc.com)
• Order deadline nears for Safer Foundation's annual lunch fundraiser (wqad.com)

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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: The NO-BELL prize (Thank you Gina M. for sending it in!)
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