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Evening News for Friday, January 19, 2018

WVIK, Quad Cities NPR | By Herb Trix
Published January 19, 2018 at 5:56 PM CST

tonight's headlines:

  • why bottle redemptions in Iowa have fallen in recent years,
  • why flu season has been especially hard this year,
  • and two Dubuque men are sentenced to prison for a 2017 bank robbery in Maquoketa.

Partly cloudy tonight with a low near 29. Sunny on Saturday, high around 41.
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Herb Trix
A native of Detroit, Herb Trix began his radio career as a country-western disc jockey in Roswell, New Mexico (“KRSY, your superkicker in the Pecos Valley”), in 1978. After a stint at an oldies station in Topeka, Kansas (imagine getting paid to play “Louie Louie” and “Great Balls of Fire”), he wormed his way into news, first in Topeka, and then in Freeport Illinois.
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