During a plea hearing on Wednesday, Jovahn Mathis said he had left the Ellipsis group home "in a state of extreme anger" and that Kathleen Galloway-Menke had made him even angrier when she stepped in ...

Gov. Kim Reynolds took the extraordinary step of filing a lawsuit against the Des Moines Register, asking for an injunction ...

A Des Moines police confrontation with man they say stole a car on the south side ends with him ramming police vehicle, being ...

Officials said witnesses reported seeing a man swimming in a lake near alligators before police arrived on scene.

Polk County's sheriff said the man had been acting bizarrely at a gas station, then swam through an alligator-laden lake into ...

Those interested in classic cars got to see quite a spread while supporting the Polk County Sheriff’s Public Safety Cadet ...

A Des Moines man will face a life sentence after he was found guilty Friday of first-degree murder. Derrick Andray Earnest, 61, was convicted by a Polk County jury for the death of his then-girlfriend ...

A Polk County jury convicted a Des Moines man of first-degree murder for beating his girlfriend to death in 2024. 61-year-old ...