Top Des Moines Area Local News Stories
Source: KCCI.com - Local News
Residents and city officials are planning for more flooding in Des Moines as crews continue to fill sandbags and add new temporary levees.
Published: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:36:04 CDT
Residents of a north Des Moines neighborhood that flooded in 2008 are packing their belongings and fleeing the area.
Published: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:26:45 CDT
Authorities said a helmet found floating in Coralville Lake this week belonged to a missing snowmobiler.
Published: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:52:34 CDT
The Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation is investigation a shooting that happened during a drug raid early Wednesday.
Published: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:49:53 CDT
Some residents of two Des Moines apartment buildings are suing over what they say is a persistent infestation of bedbugs.
Published: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:55:54 CDT
St. Patrick may or may not have driven the snakes out of Ireland, but loud music from St. Patrick's Day festivities definitely drove a murder trial out of a Polk County courtroom -- at least temporarily.
Published: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:52:10 CDT
Harrah's Entertainment Inc. is offering to pay Iowa $7 million a year to stop subsidizing purses at the state's greyhound tracks -- in effect ending the racing but not the money.
Published: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:48:12 CDT
Lawmakers met Wednesday to work out a compromise on a texting while driving bill.
Published: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:27:15 CDT
The city of Pleasantville has lifted a drinking water boil advisory.
Published: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:37:51 CDT
A man who was the subject of an Iowa amber alert that prompted a multi-state search for him and a 14-year-old girl has arrived in Pottawattamie County.
Published: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:37:16 CDT
The attorney for a former Iowa City elementary school guidance counselor convicted of sexually abusing a fifth-grade student has filed a motion for a new trial.
Published: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:43:08 CDT
Des Moines police said that St. Patrick's Day partiers should expect to see extra patrols out on Wednesday.
Published: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:13:58 CDT
A home in eastern Iowa that was destroyed by a blaze caught fire three times over two days.
Published: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 08:52:21 CDT
A man wanted in a January police shootout in Detroit was arrested Tuesday night in Des Moines.
Published: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 08:49:29 CDT
The Iowa State Patrol said Wednesday that two people have died after their vehicle struck a tree in Mitchell County in northern Iowa and overturned in water.
Published: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:39:51 CDT
Iowa is closing a loophole in a state law that was cited in allowing a 17-year-old girl to strip onstage at a club in 2007.
Published: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 09:03:01 CDT
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