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Over the last few months, the Tama Fire Department has responded to seven arson fires. They arrested the suspect on Sunday. He's one of their own men. More>>
We've heard about all the problems; Wednesday night it was time to speak about solutions. More>>
New wireless emergency alert system More>>
Police in Adel are sending out a warning to parents and their kids. More>>
The Delaware County attorney says a Manchester couple found dead in their home on Mother's Day were shot to death. More>>
Des Moines police have fired an officer who was charged last month with being involved in a hit-and-run accident in his squad car. More>>
Investigators believe that a Davenport couple found dead near an eastern Iowa town's cemetery committed suicide. More>>
A young woman has changed her plea and admitted hitting and killing a man who was walking his dog in northeast Iowa last fall. More>>
State officials are warning drivers in Iowa to be careful on the highways this month because deer are once again on the move. More>>
No injuries are reported in an explosion at a biodiesel plant in Mason City. More>>
Court documents became public this week that give us insight into 32-year-old's life right before she died. More>>
Tuesday night a committee updated the school board on three different problem areas for the charter school: staffing, administration and budget. More>>
The twister rolled in on April 14th, toppling trees and ripping roofs off homes. It also caused significant destruction to the local hospital. More>>
It was the first time Mitt Romney addressed Iowans since the caucus. More>>
An Iowa teenager accused of killing his grandparents at their home in Manchester has been formally charged with two counts of first-degree murder. More>>
MidAmerican Energy officials are studying their options for nuclear power since the Iowa Legislature adjourned without taking action on a bill the company sought. More>>
Republican Mitt Romney says President Barack Obama's reckless spending has fanned a "prairie fire of debt" while portraying himself in a speech in battleground Iowa as the defender of fiscal responsibility. More>>
An environmental research center at the University of Iowa has received a $7.9 million grant to help support research of rural health issues. More>>
Polk County Sheriff Bill McCarthy has been chosen by the National Sheriff's Association to travel to Israel this week to learn about homeland security measures. More>>
Iowa farmers are almost finished planting this year's corn crop and are making inroads in getting the soybeans in the ground. More>>
Isaiah sweet was arrested just after seven o'clock Monday evening in Cedar Rapids. More>>
Protesters find out branch will stay open, but are still skeptical. More>>
There's been talk that Des Moines' only charter school could close down at the end of this school year if they don't fix some financial and administrative problems. More>>
The maker of the beef product dubbed "pink slime" by critics says it's laying off 86 employees from its South Dakota corporate office, and company officials are blaming what it calls a "campaign of misinformation." More>>
U.S. Postal Service spokesman Richard Watkins says the agency is stalling plans to close 600 urban and suburban postal branch offices and satellite stations. More>>
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is planning his first trip to Iowa since effectively locking up the presidential nomination. More>>
A rally has been planned in support of keeping open a downtown Des Moines post office, which remains on a list of mail centers that could be closed. More>>
Greater Des Moines Partnership More>>
Daughter-in-law Charged in Southside Fire More>>
A 7-year-old boy is dead Saturday night after a crash in Boone County. More>>
William Penn Commencement More>>
It's the award no military member wants to receive. The Purple Heart is given to the wounded and killed. More>>
Couple finds sensitive files floating around their yard.
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The streets of Newton were clogged with bikers Friday night. More>>
CenturyLink was supposed to remove the telephone cables on the bridge at 63rd and Grand Ave., but they didn't do it in time. More>>
A Des Moines man found guilty in a fiery crash that killed a teenager and injured four others last summer has been sentenced to 30 years in prison. More>>
Gov. Terry Branstad has signed an executive order legalizing the use of lead shot in the hunting of doves, rescinding an action by the state Natural Resources Commission. More>>
Authorities say a 7-year-old boy has been fatally injured in the crash of a four-wheeler on an eastern Iowa farm. More>>
A man who once served as the mayor of Davenport and Scott County supervisor has been charged with second-degree theft. More>>
Five teenagers face charges in an incident involving a homemade bomb that exploded near some children, injuring one child, in Hampton earlier this month. More>>
Heather has three kids. She breast fed all of them until they wanted to stop or needed to because she was having the third. More>>
The US Postal Service's new plan keeps rural offices open with reduced hours instead of closing them down for good. More>>
Iowa has suspended the license of a Des Moines pharmacist after an audit discovered a shortage of over 740,000 pills of the painkiller hydrocodone. More>>
A 30-year-old Mason City man has been charged with arson, accused of setting a house aflame in March. More>>
A 23-year-old Iowa man has won a new trial in the fatal shooting of another man in a Des Moines parking lot. More>>
It's the first time a United States President has publicly said he supports gay marriage. More>>
For Iowa's lawmakers, it's time to go home. More>>
The Iowa Legislature has adjourned a session in which lawmakers took on some big issues but emerged with little legislation. More>>
More recognition is what they are looking for. More>>
It's the time of year when the workplace gets flooded with students.
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President Barack Obama says he now supports same-sex marriage, ending months of equivocation on a subject with powerful election-year consequences. More>>
A disagreement over whether abortion procedures should be available to Medicaid recipients is keeping Iowa lawmakers at the Statehouse. More>>
A 23-year-old eastern Iowa man has been accused of sexually abusing an underage girl for at least seven years. More>>
A Dubuque man has been accused of injuring his dog by tossing it off an 11-foot-high retaining wall. More>>
The Iowa Senate has rejected a bill that would have let results from an errant vote stand in the town of Adel. More>>
An Iowa man who hit and killed a Minnesota man on a bicycle will be sentenced this summer. More>>
When West Des Moines Police arrived at the scene of an armed robbery, their suspect was being held down by the men he tried to rob. More>>
Witnesses say shooter flashed a gang sign before firing two shots.
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Des Moines bike riders may soon have some new trails to ride on and they're set to be the biggest and most expensive yet. More>>
Police have filed more sex abuse charges against an Adel man and they believe that it may not be the last time they do. More>>
She can blink, breathe, sweat, and speak. Millie Larson can even go to the bathroom. It's almost like she's alive, except Millie Larson is made of plastic. More>>
The Des Moines City Council gave the go ahead to receive bids for the downtown dog park project Monday night.
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Tried to decide on real solutions More>>
They're three weeks late, but it looks like the Iowa Legislature might actually wrap up sometime this week. More>>
Well it was a little cloudy this morning but that didn't make a dent in the turnout at the des Moines farmers market. More>>
Before many of you wake up on Monday, Rob Gillum of Des Moines, will have taken off on a journey across Iowa, on foot, and complete it in just five days. More>>
Republicans attack Obama policies More>>
It's how the director got her inspiration that makes it so special. More>>
When a person walks all the way to the sky, above the clouds, it's nothing short of amazing. But these hikers don't stop at above, they go beyond. More>>
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