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Pleasant Hill woman identified as victim in Des Moines homicide
DES MOINES, Iowa — On Friday afternoon Des Moines Police released the name of the woman who died after suffering from blunt force trauma and other injuries. At around 3 a.m. officers with the Des Moines Police Department responded to UnityPoint Health – Iowa Methodist Medical Center in the 1200 block of Pleasant Street on […]
After student stabbed outside Hoover High, Des Moines school to settle lawsuit for $5,000
Des Moines Public Schools will pay $5,000 to settle claims by a student who was stabbed during a fight outside Hoover High School. The March 2022 attack left the student with a severe abdominal laceration requiring medical treatment, according to court filings. In his complaint, He alleged teachers saw other students threatening and trying to fight him inside the school but took no action to separate them or prevent the subsequent encounter where he was wounded in...
13-year–old charged in connection to swatting call at Harding Middle School
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - A teen is facing charges after police said they made a false report of a possible shooter at Harding Middle School on Friday. Officers responded to the school just before 8 a.m. and conducted a search, but they said they found no active threat to staff or students.
Law enforcement investigating deadly crash near Polk City
POLK CITY, Iowa — The Polk County Sheriff's Office is investigating a deadly crash near Polk City on Wednesday afternoon. Previous video above: Deadly crashes on Iowa roads at a seven-year high. The single-vehicle accident happened at about 2:30 p.m. Wednesday in the 2800 block of Northwest 126th Avenue....
Des Moines man acquitted of murder fails in challenge to federal firearm conviction
A Polk County jury wasn't convinced that Tyrone Cameron shot and killed Jeffrey Gillom. A federal jury, presented with the same facts, came to a different conclusion. Cameron, 30, was charged with murder and other crimes after the April 2022 shooting at the Hickman Flats Apartments in Des Moines. At his trial later that year, prosecutors argued Cameron was angry about a fight earlier in the evening and came back to fire 15 bullets through the door of the apartment where Gillom, 59, was staying, killing him and wounding a woman. The jury, though was not persuaded, and acquitted Cameron on all charges.
Des Moines to pay $50,000 to settle another George Floyd protest arrest lawsuit
Des Moines has agreed to pay $50,000 to a man tackled and arrested during the George Floyd protests in 2020, officials say. Approved this week, the settlement is in addition to $25,000 Jacob Sahr received from Polk County in 2022, according to a report by Axios. Sahr, who now lives in Waterloo, sued both city and county, alleging false arrest and First Amendment retaliation by sheriff's deputies and police.
Water Curia, a tribute to Bill Stowe and water quality, coming to Water Works Park
Water Curia, 20-foot-tall circular pavilion coming to the Des Moines Water Works Park, also will serve as a public classroom to honor the late Bill Stowe, the longtime water utility CEO and general manager who died in 2019. Stowe, remembered as a public servant pushing to protect Iowa’s waterways, died...
Des Moines board approves new DART facility
The design of Des Moines Area Regional Transit Authority’s new operations and maintenance facility was approved this week by the city’s Urban Design Review Board. Development of the facility is expected to occur in three phases, with the construction of the first phase beginning in August, information provided to the board shows. The project’s first phase includes a 78,000-square-foot maintenance facility that would cost about $34.8 million to develop. Eventually, the site at 3500 Vandalia Road, will include enclosed space to park DART buses and administrative offices. When fully built, the facility would include about 290,000 square feet of space. The 37.3-acre site is owned by the city of Des Moines. A purchase agreement between the city and DART is expected to be approved yet this spring by the City Council. DART leaders have said it would be more cost efficient to build a new facility rather than renovate the current facility at 1100 DART Way. The facility has flooded twice and the nearly 11-acre site is landlocked, making expansion difficult, officials have said. Once the new facility is fully developed, the current maintenance and operations campus will be sold, the board was told this week.
The votes are in: Roosevelt High School teen named Des Moines area Student of the Week
Hannah Hayes, a senior at Roosevelt High School in Des Moines, is the Des Moines Register's Student of the Week. Lisa Hesse, Roosevelt's associate principal, described Hayes in her school's nomination of her: "Hannah always goes beyond expectations to achieve excellence." Hayes' advance placement calculus teacher, Tammy Clements, also described...
Central Iowa musician gets opportunity of a lifetime
DES MOINES, Iowa — A local musician in Central Iowa is still in awe after getting the opportunity of a lifetime. Andrew Hoyt, a singer and songwriter in Des Moines, received an unbelievable opportunity out of the blue earlier this week when he was asked to be an opener for a concert at Wells Fargo Arena.
Bees swarming in your backyard? Here’s who to call
DES MOINES, Iowa — It’s swarm season and that means bees are waking up after winter and looking for new places to set up a hive. Des Moines Backyard Beekeepers is a group that you can call to collect a swarm if they choose your backyard to build a hive. Ryan Buman, a member of […]
Mini golf craze: Downtown Des Moines is set to get another venue this fall
Golf ― or the indoor semblance of it ― is having a moment in the Des Moines metro. Topgolf in West Des Moines is ahead of schedule and could open its all-weather hitting bays by late summer. Fat Putter, a popular miniature golf lounge in Omaha, Nebraska, announced a new location in...
Officials identify Slater man who died in Polk County crash
POLK COUNTY, Iowa — The name of a Slater man who died Wednesday afternoon in a single-vehicle crash near Polk City has been released. The Polk County Sheriff’s Office said Timothy Simmer, 63, was the driver and the only occupant of the SUV that was found crashed in a field in the 2800 block of […]
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