<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>plime.com : plime.com : Search Results : iowa : XML WIDGET</title><link>http://www.plime.com/</link><description>You can use this XML spec to create a desktop widget or other application (i.e. Flash visualization). Please share it with us in our forum and we'll link it here!</description><language>en-us</language></meta><items><link><id>40096</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/40096/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Iowa to tax your Jack-O-Lantern]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Iowa Department of Revenue is taxing jack-o'-lanterns this Halloween.]]></description><comments>4</comments><score>91</score><crdate>10/30/2007 11:28:31 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-10-30T23:28:31+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>93815</id><url>http://www.plime.com/world/l/93815/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Iowa Meatpacking Plant Exploited Mentally Disabled Workers]]></title><description><![CDATA[Iowa officials say 21 mentally disabled men were put to work at a meatpacking plant for decades and lived for 20 years or more in an old building with boarded-up windows and nothing but space heaters for heat.]]></description><comments>7</comments><score>527</score><crdate>2/10/2009 12:32:14 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-02-10T12:32:14+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>64171</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/64171/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Iowa Man Claims Pot Stash Was For Composting]]></title><description><![CDATA[Police in Iowa say a man caught with a large quantity of marijuana claimed all he had in mind was recycling.]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>226</score><crdate>6/3/2008 12:58:01 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-06-03T12:58:01+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>45932</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/45932/1/</url><title><![CDATA[As the Iowa Caucuses Near, This Guy Is A Hot Potato]]></title><description><![CDATA[&quot;The candidates have been in Iowa forever. Why not have fun with the whole process?&quot; says Andy Green, a gimlet-eyed 20-year-old with a wide face and a perpetual smile, like he's been hiding a big joke he's just dying to tell. He's the kind of guy you'd imagine rushing up to Clinton, breathlessly saying: &quot;You need to pose with Mr. Potato Head. You're the last Democrat to do this.&quot; She complied.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>139</score><crdate>1/3/2008 3:12:43 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-01-03T15:12:43+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>53986</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/53986/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Iowa town pays $5 bounty for stray cats]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mayor Vance Trively says that the southwest Iowa town of 200 people is being overrun by dozens of feral cats and needed to do something, so they're offering a $5 bounty for each feral feline turned in.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>139</score><crdate>3/12/2008 12:59:12 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-03-12T12:59:12+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>80129</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/80129/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Police officer of the year arrested in Iowa]]></title><description><![CDATA[The police officer of the year in Council Bluffs, Iowa has been charged with drunken driving.<br/><br/><br/>Some cops are such hypocrites..]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>57</score><crdate>10/23/2008 2:32:07 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-10-23T14:32:07+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>18991</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/18991/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Keys to Iowa prison auctioned on e-Bay]]></title><description><![CDATA[Iowa is spending $6,000 to change the locks at one of its state prisons after a set of keys belonging to a long-retired guard turned up on e-Bay.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>57</score><crdate>5/4/2007 7:03:05 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-05-04T07:03:05+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>4206</id><url>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/4206/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Great Ape Scolded for Pulling Fire Alarm]]></title><description><![CDATA[One of the great apes at a research center in Des Moines has learned a valuable lesson - don't pull the fire alarm.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>1</score><crdate>10/23/2006 11:57:00 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2006-10-23T23:57:00+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>22969</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/22969/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Witnesses laugh as Rob Lowe commits murder in Iowa]]></title><description><![CDATA[I always knew he was a killer...]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>78</score><crdate>6/7/2007 12:35:57 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-06-07T00:35:57+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>104320</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/104320/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Same-sex marriage now legal in Iowa]]></title><description><![CDATA[In a precedent-setting ruling, the Iowa Supreme Court Friday upheld a lower court decision legalizing same-sex marriages in Iowa.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>264</score><crdate>4/3/2009 10:51:23 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-04-03T10:51:23+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>935</id><url>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/935/1/</url><title><![CDATA[$200M Powerball won in Iowa]]></title><description><![CDATA[The numbers are: 13-21-26-45-50 and the Powerball is...]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>10</score><crdate>9/25/2006 9:20:29 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2006-09-25T09:20:29+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>133537</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/133537/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Oh my!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Iowa won't take the 79 year-old hit and run driver's license even after he killed a bicyclist with his car. Why not? He's innocent until proven guilty, and passed his last eye exam.]]></description><comments>8</comments><score>264</score><crdate>9/23/2009 12:58:40 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-09-23T12:58:40+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>68171</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/68171/1/</url><title><![CDATA[500-Lb. Iowa Woman Trapped In Elevator Dies]]></title><description><![CDATA[Linda Sims told the paper that her daughter was claustrophobic, and that she questions why she was not called when her daughter first became trapped in the elevator.]]></description><comments>4</comments><score>103</score><crdate>7/9/2008 9:57:59 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-07-09T09:57:59+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>45968</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/45968/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Obama and Huckabee win Iowa]]></title><description><![CDATA[Rest of the country takes a collective sigh as, at the very least, we don't have to hear about Iowa anymore.]]></description><comments>4</comments><score>348</score><crdate>1/3/2008 10:33:53 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-01-03T22:33:53+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>45618</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/45618/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Chelsea Clinton guards words, even with a kid]]></title><description><![CDATA[VINTON, Iowa - It's one thing for Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign to turn down interview requests for the candidate's daughter, Chelsea. But can't a 9-year old reporter catch a break?]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>79</score><crdate>12/31/2007 11:41:04 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-12-31T11:41:04+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>121462</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/121462/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Today is Self-Arrest Day in Polk County, Iowa]]></title><description><![CDATA[Polk County residents with minor arrest warrants can avoid the hassle and save sheriff's department officials a lot of trouble today.<br/><br/>All they have to is arrest themselves.<br/><b>(Don't forget to read yourself your rights)</b>]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>175</score><crdate>6/9/2009 12:45:54 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-06-09T12:45:54+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>42205</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/42205/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Giant Corn Bin Collapses, Burying Iowa Family]]></title><description><![CDATA[A 90 ft high grain bin collapsed and sent a tidal wave of corn into a home, sweeping it off its foundation, trapping a family of four and shaking the ground for miles around.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>105</score><crdate>11/21/2007 10:13:53 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-11-21T10:13:53+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>24522</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/24522/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Iowa Agency Issues Wild Parsnip Warning]]></title><description><![CDATA[Watch your step when you pull off the road. That's the warning from state environmental officials to people who want to avoid a burning, blistering itch that could last for months.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>8</score><crdate>6/20/2007 5:41:28 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-06-20T17:41:28+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>78941</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/78941/1/</url><title><![CDATA[(Onion) Gunman Kills 15 Potential Voters in Iowa]]></title><description><![CDATA[Reportedly, 4 were Democrats and 7 were Republicans.  Gunman was reportedly leaning Democrat, though registered Independent.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>35</score><crdate>10/8/2008 3:12:23 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-10-08T03:12:23+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>45791</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/45791/1/</url><title><![CDATA[A Literal Nanny State?]]></title><description><![CDATA[In an effort to rope in as many votes as possible in the Iowa caucus, Hillary Clinton is offering to provide free babysitting for voters.]]></description><comments>5</comments><score>132</score><crdate>1/2/2008 11:23:08 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-01-02T11:23:08+01:00</atomdate></link></items></xml>