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DANIEL P. FINNEY

1217 24th St.

Apt. 36

Des Moines, IA 50311

515-371-9453 (Texts welcome.)

newsmanone@gmail.com

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My very best stacked paragraphs

  • A special delivery: Love after tragedy brings baby into world
  • ‘Reuben Spider-Man,’ 4, finds his way home with a little police help
  • ‘An extraordinarily gifted storyteller’: Former Register writer Ken Fuson dies at 63
  • ‘The other Bob Woodward,’ a beloved Drake University journalism professor, dies at 82
  • Iowa World War II vet still finds joy of a hard day’s work slicing meat at 95
  • Ticked-off basketball fans led to the invention of first time clock for high-school sports
  • Crime novels, comics, plays and movies: Prolific Iowa author Max Allan Collins writes them all
  • How a California crow named Clover made Jenni Boonjakuakul central Iowa’s ‘bird lady’
  • From advice to recipes, Iowa woman retires after 70-year career as one of nation’s longest-serving newspaper columnists
  • The day KCCI’s Weather Beacon went dark for good
  • World Series: Iowa Hall of Famer Bob Feller reached his final Fall Classic 65 years ago
  • Meet the Iowan the world just learned helped raise the flag at Iwo Jima in World War II
  • A dirty hit, a broken jaw and the day Drake and Oklahoma A&M changed college football forever
  • How 5 ‘mistakes’ by Iowan Ken Quinn ultimately made the World Food Prize world-class
  • Iowa mom who lost son in Afghanistan copes by making masks to fight coronavirus spread
  • Ballet performance outside senior housing raises spirits of residents quarantined by COVID-19
  • An Iowa couple with COVID-19: She lives; he died
  • Betty Lou and ‘House With the Magic Window’ entertained Iowans for 43 years on WOI-TV
  • Whatever happened to ‘Machine Gun’ Molly Bolin, the Iowa prep who signed the first women’s pro contract?
  • Over 25 years into her softball career, an Iowa legend will play for Italian national team at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo
  • That time an Iowa girls’ basketball star was drafted out of high school by the NBA’s Warriors
  • Jean Seberg: Iowa actress robbed of Cinderella story by FBI harassment
  • Pope John Paul II’s Iowa visit at 40: Untold tales of cracked statues, cigarette deals and a crowd-surfing baby
  • ‘I’m glad to be alive, but I lost my husband’
  • BARBIE, KEN CALL IT QUITS
  • Carlisle teacher digs into unsolved murder of officer
  • March 15, 1993: The first paid paragraphs

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Morning mood: “Nothing can stop the Juggernaut!” #xmen #juggernaut
If you want to get to me, you’ve got to get through grumpy bear. You cannot get through grumpy bear.
Decapitated Spider-Man has something on his mind. #marvel #spiderman #nightmareonelmstreet #room1080
Zombie #Kermit visits class. No students were harmed, but that poor plush Kermit the Frog will never be the same.
The last thing I saw before being consumed by an insatiable craving for brains 🧠. #zombie #kermitthefrog
I don’t wanna and you can’t make me.
One of the many great honors I had during my time as a young newsman was to befriend and cover Dani Tyler, the graceful fielding shortstop with a mighty swing for @drakesoftball and then a gold medal winner for Team USA in the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. She remains one of my favorite humans.
Solid advice.
First #luigi is complains at my desk and now #mario. These guys don’t even have kids in my class.
His name is Bug. He has existential dread. Nobody knows what is bugging Bug. Still, he is a good boy. CC: @yvonnebeasley
#Luigi discuss new #Mario movie.
I have beautiful and talented friends. CC: @megangogerty
I have beautiful friends. CC: @kbittbitt
It’s always good to arrive home with a postcard from your actual Baseball Hall of Fame voter friend @dgoold.
New employee has Transformers energy with Gobots results.
My parents’ #Christmas tree has more stuff on it than yours.
I don’t need it, but I love it. #hulk #funko #funkosoda #marvel
A house with good bones. #castlegrayskull #heman #mastersoftheuniverse
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