DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Conservatives last week gobbled up a false news story claiming President Joe Biden planned to ration red meat. Colorado Rep. Rep. Lauren Boebert suggested Biden "stay out of my kitchen." Texas Gov. Greg Abbott tweeted out a headline warning Biden was getting "Up in ...
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A man is in jail and facing several charges in connection with a Des Moines crash that killed two people on a motorcycle. Authorities say Quntonio Herron turned himself in Friday morning and he was booked into the Polk County Jail. He is charged with homicide by ...
GRINNELL, Iowa (AP) — Officials with the Grinnell-Newberg Community School District say they have punished middle school students who posted a racist video on TikTok. KCCI-TV reports that Grinnell police also are investigating after residents reported the video titled "Hitler Gang." Those ...
PLEASANT HILL, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa man has been charged with vehicular homicide counts after prosecutors accused him of being at fault for a March crash that killed an Illinois man. Zachary Russell Willer, 32, of Pleasant Hill, was charged Wednesday with vehicular homicide by reckless ...
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — An 82-year-old man was found injured and unconscious early Thursday in a Cedar Rapids apartment fire and rushed to a local hospital, city officials said. Firefighters were called around 1 a.m. Thursday to the apartment complex, where an air conditioner unit on ...
DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — A Bettendorf officer used "justified and reasonable" force when he shot and killed a man in February, Scott County authorities said Thursday. Officer Zachary Gish shot Brian Gregory Scott, 49, on Feb. 7 after Scott fired once at another officer, Scott County First ...
DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — A Davenport woman has pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter in the shooting death of another woman at a Chuck E. Cheese restaurant. Treshonda Pollion, 25, was originally charged with first-degree murder after the death of Eloise Chairs on Oct. 25. She accepted a ...
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Cedar Rapids paid $619,000 to defend a white police officer against an excessive force lawsuit brought by a Black man he shot and paralyzed, before Iowa's second-largest city reached a landmark $8 million settlement with the man, a city spokeswoman said. The previously ...
WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) — A jury has convicted a Waterloo man of first-degree murder in what prosecutors described as the revenge killing of another man. Raymond Birden Jr., 22, was found guilty Tuesday in the 2018 death of 22-year-old Shavondes Martin, who was acquitted earlier that year of ...
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Police in Des Moines were searching for a driver who fled the scene of a crash that killed two people on a motorcycle and injured another motorcyclist. The crash happened around 8:30 p.m. Tuesday when a car collided with two motorcycles at the intersection of East ...
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — A registered sex offender kidnapped and shot to death a 10-year-old Iowa girl, his son's half sister, while the two kids were staying overnight with him last summer, a prosecutor said Wednesday. Authorities announced that Henry Dinkins is charged with first-degree ...
JOHNSTON, Iowa (AP) — As interest in the coronavirus vaccine continues to lag, Iowa public health officials are trying to make it easier to get a shot. Gov. Kim Reynolds said Wednesday that a bus will be set up this week in the parking lot of the Iowa Cubs baseball park in Des Moines for the ...
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds said Wednesday she would sign a bill banning transgender students from participating in girls' sports. When asked about the issue at a news conference, Reynolds repeatedly called it a fairness issue. "We want to make sure that they can compete ...
ELKADER, Iowa (AP) — Trial has begun for a northeastern Iowa woman accused of killing her husband a decade ago. The first-degree murder trial of Revette Sauser, 52, of Ryan, began this week, television station KCRG reported. She's accused of fatally shooting 59-year-old Terry Sauser in ...
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Testing on a cap worn by the perpetrator of a homicide 45 years ago has failed to exonerate a prisoner who maintains his innocence, the latest setback for lawyers hoping to prove Iowa's first wrongful conviction based on DNA. Gentric Hicks cannot be excluded as one of ...
LeCLAIRE, Iowa (AP) — Iowa officials have charged a Pleasant Valley man with manslaughter after a boating crash last summer on the Mississippi River that killed two people. James Thiel, 44, has been charged with two felony counts of involuntary manslaughter, two misdemeanor counts of ...
PRIMGHAR, Iowa (AP) — A northwest Iowa man has pleaded not guilty to charges filed in the death of his 5-month-old daughter. Lawrence Ruotolo Jr., 20, of Sheldon, entered his written plea Monday to two counts of child endangerment. His trial was scheduled for Aug. 10, The Sioux City Journal ...
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A third coronavirus variant that was first identified in hard-hit India has been uncovered in Iowa, state public health officials said Tuesday. The Iowa Department of Public Health said it has confirmed two cases of the variant, SARS-CoV-2 B.1.617. Health officials ...
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in his first visit to Iowa joined state and city officials Tuesday to announce the future plans for a sprawling former industrial site at a high-profile spot on the edge of downtown Des Moines. The 43-acre ...
BRONSON, Iowa (AP) — Some students suffered minor injuries Tuesday afternoon when a school bus rolled over near the small western Iowa city of Bronson, officials said. The Woodbury County Sheriff's Office said 15 students were aboard the bus when it rolled off a gravel road. One student had ...