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A unique memorial service set for 5-year-old Garrett Matthias of central Iowa is matched only by the one-of-a-kind obituary the preschooler had a hand in authoring and that is now garnering national attention.
Police have identified a suspected burglar, as well as the business owner who shot and killed him outside the business in southern Des Moines.
"I call Memorial Park in Bancroft a house of worship. It's like a church."
157 passengers are safe after an Allegiant Airlines flight from Iowa to Arizona was forced to make an emergency landing shortly after takeoff.
Residents in the Des Moines area are cleaning up after deadly floods destroyed homes and submerged cars, and more damage could be revealed as the floodwaters recede.
Witnesses told police that as van occupants got out of the vehicle, one was swept away in the floodwater.
A freight train derailed in northwest Iowa on Friday, leaking crude oil from into flooded fields.
To mark a personal milestone she never met, a public plea for answers. Tuesday would have been Jodi Huisentruit's 50th birthday.
A 60-year-old Iowa man died in southern Minnesota Friday morning after his motorcycle collided with a horse.
An Iowa judge agreed Friday to temporarily block the most restrictive abortion law in the country under an agreement between the state and abortion rights groups.
Court records say 34-year-old Jermaine Watson of Dubuque also pleaded guilty to four drug counts.
The measure would need a final vote in the GOP-led Senate before it can be sent to Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds.
Chicken salad contaminated with salmonella bacteria made by an Iowa food processing company and distributed by Fareway Stores has sickened 265 people in eight states and caused one death in Iowa.
A memorial service has been held for an Iowa couple and their children who died at a Mexican resort.
A Mexican prosecutor says a gas leak in a water heater is suspected of killing them inside their rented condominium in Tulum.
A prosecutor in Mexico said Monday that a gas leak in a water heater is suspected in the death of an Iowa couple and their two children last week.
Autopsies indicate an Iowa couple and their two children died from inhaling toxic gas at a rented condo on Mexico's Caribbean coast, but there was no sign of foul play or suicide, Mexican authorities said Saturday.
Court records say 37-year-old David Tyree pleaded guilty March 6 to assault on a peace officer.
The U.S News & World Report just unveiled their annual rankings Tuesday morning.
"That's not my record to have. That record deserves to stay in his name," Jordan Bohannon said.
A school in northern Minnesota and another just over the Minnesota-Iowa border have closed due to threats Thursday.
A judge has given an Iowa farmer-turned-reality television star more time to prepare a defense against a charge of leaving the scene of a fatal accident.
Iowa authorities say the body of a man pulled from a dump truck that had been submerged under water in a sand pit was that of a Minnesota resident.
The University of Iowa is caught up in a legal fight with a conservative Christian student group that denied a leadership position to a student who is gay.
An Iowa farmer-turned-reality television star is fighting to avoid prison after driving his pickup into the back of a tractor and killing a neighbor.
