KBEAR: Billings' Greatest Hits » Iowa http://kbear.com Billings' Greatest Hits Sun, 19 May 2013 04:45:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 18-Year-Old Mayor Is Now Running Iowa Town http://kbear.com/18-year-old-mayor/ http://kbear.com/18-year-old-mayor/#comments Thu, 08 Mar 2012 23:00:09 +0000 Jeremy Taylor http://thefw.com/?p=108052 If you want to find the mayor of Aredale, Iowa, the best place to look is probably the local high school.

That’s because 18-year-old Jeremy Minnier, who was elected to the town’s highest seat on Tuesday, is still a senior.

]]> http://kbear.com/18-year-old-mayor/feed/ 0 NBC Iowa Lottery Winner Finally Materializes to Claim $16.5 Million After Year-Long Delay http://kbear.com/iowa-lottery-winner-16-5-million/ http://kbear.com/iowa-lottery-winner-16-5-million/#comments Mon, 02 Jan 2012 21:00:31 +0000 Shauna Wright http://tsminteractive.com/?p=68258 On Monday, the deadline passed for an unknown $77 million lottery winner in Georgia to claim the prize. Unbelievable as that may have been, officials in Iowa had a similar situation — days before the deadline, a Hot Lotto ticket worth $16.5 million was still unaccounted for.

But no more. In a squeaker of epic proportions, an attorney for the unnamed winner stepped forward with the valuable little slip of paper on Thursday, just two hours before it would’ve been worthless.

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