Triple A of Iowa has some tips to keep you from getting robbed if you’re planning on leaving home for the holidays. Put a hold on your mail and newspaper…or the thieves can just follow the pile of Des Moines Registers…all the way to your flat-screen. And don’t post on social media…unless you like returning to a ransacked house.

You can blow your own….glass ornaments today at Studio Fuzzishu in West Des Moines. Unique…one of kind…handcrafted by you at a cost of about $14 an ornament…cheaper if you blow three.

Des Moines search for a new police chief is gathering steam…with eight candidate finalists vying for the gig…two of whom are African American. No female candidates to follow in the footsteps of Judy Bradshaw.