It’s almost the end of the year, and it’s time for everyone to flashback on the past 300-plus days, and we at QuadCities.com are right there with you. We’re taking a glance in the rearview at the past 365 to run down the top 30 stories of the year for our site! Of course, since we cover entertainment, sports, and features, that’s all we’ve got going on here. For stories on the flood, politics, crime and such, please feel free to check out our news media partners at KWQC-TV6. For the criteria on how we picked the stories, check out my column on the countdown. As always, it’s interesting... Read More

We’re looking back on a great year of entertainment, sports and features here at QuadCities.com, and QC Scene is here to display some of the images of the year, featuring the places, people and events that made the year great! Here’s part one of our look back in pictures:  Read More

Has Catfish Guy met his Mr. Glass? A buck-naked Bettendorf man, Tobias Hartsfield, 43, was busted by cops Sunday night after he was spotted engaging in dastardly activity — untying ropes on a barge near the new Interstate 74 bridge construction on the Mississippi River, according to police and media reports. According to reports on KWQC-TV6 and in the Quad City Times, eyewitnesses saw the man, naked as the day he was born, presuming that he wasn’t born in a tuxedo or leisure suit, sauntering along the barge around 7:50 p.m. as he was untying ropes and gesturing wildly in a strange, ritualistic... Read More

Paging Fox Mulder! According to the National UFO Reporting Center, www.nuforc.org, the Quad-Cities has been hit with some more UFO activity, in Davenport. As previously reported on QuadCities.com, there have been three previous sightings over the past seven months, the most recent being a large object with green lights moving slowly over the river from the Iowa side to the Illinois side and into Rock Island last fall, as reported here: Another UFO Over The Quad-Cities? The latest sighting was reported March 16 and posted to www.nuforc.org on March 21. It reads as follows: 3/16/2019 05:00 (Entered... Read More