AA Battery Charger is USB-compatible and solar powered. (ThomasNet)

20 August 2008, 5:58 am

Generating power via PowerFilm thin film solar panels, portable solar charger stores energy in 2 internal removable AA NiMH batteries so that consumer electronics devices can be powered in day and at night. Solution connects to electronics via USB port, or AA batteries can be use separately. Weighin... read more

Online Job Searches Attract Young, Educated, African-American Consumers (Broadcast Newsroom)

19 August 2008, 11:57 am

NEW YORK , Aug. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Online Job Searchers, those adults who have conducted an employment search online during the past month, represent a youthful, educated, racially diverse group, according to consumer and media research firm Scarborough Research.... read more

Grain News (Grainnet.com)

19 August 2008, 7:37 am

Boone, IA—The 2008 Farm Progress Show takes place next week, Aug. 26 - 28, at the new multi-million dollar Central Iowa Expo facility in Boone, Iowa.... read more

Well Done -- Des Moines (The Altoona Herald-Mitchellville Index)

18 August 2008, 11:24 pm

Leigh Nicole Creason, a sophomore at Grand View College, has won a $1,000 Alice Connor Memorial Scholarship. Creason graduated from North High School in Des Moines and is pursuing a career in photojournalism.... read more

Well Done -- Urbandale & Johnston (The Altoona Herald-Mitchellville Index)

18 August 2008, 11:22 pm

Johnston: Alyssa Burcham, C.R. Musser/ISU Agricultural Endowment Scholarship; Ashley Raes, Jean Wallace Douglas Scholarships.... read more

Well Done -- West Des Moines, Clive & Waukee (The Altoona Herald-Mitchellville Index)

18 August 2008, 11:21 pm

Katherine Culver, Ruth McDanel and Nicholas Miller of West Des Moines received the Future of Agriculture and Life Sciences Freshman Scholarship from Iowa State University in Ames.... read more