Des Moines News

Getting a flu vaccination Saturday was as easy as rolling down your car window and rolling up your sleeve.

Republican lawmakers say they are furious over Democrats' effort to scour public records for GOP misdoings and then turn them over to the media.

Des Moines police are searching for a vehicle involved in a hit-and-run accident that left a 19-year-old woman in a coma.

October 4, 2008-- Des Moines city leaders have some tough decisions to make regarding the budget in the next few months.

Olympian Lolo Jones will be welcomed home this week in central Iowa. A celebration for Jones is scheduled for Friday at Jordan Creek Town Center in West Des Moines.

A Roosevelt High School football coach who was allegedly involved in a sideline fight at a game Tuesday will not return to his position as a chemistry teacher.

Former Vice President Al Gore tried to energize about 1,000 Democratic activists in Des Moines precisely one month before this year's hard-fought presidential election.

A former secretary for the West Marshall school district in State Center faces up to 35 years in prison for allegedly pocketing nearly $85,000 from district accounts.

An armed robber with bloodshot eyes but a calm demeanor committed a hold-up early today at the Git-N-Go Convenience Store at 2700 Indianola Ave.

The big boys are laughing at the state of Iowa. Paul Scieszinski is convinced of that.

Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., waves to supporters after speaking at a small business roundtable discussion, Tuesday, Sept.

Eds: APNewsNow; will be incorporated in BC-Candidates-Bailout. DES MOINES, Iowa Republican presidential nominee John McCain is urging the Treasury Department to intervene aggressively to limit damage from the ...

A recent poll shows voter support leading opposition for ballot proposals to loosen Michigan's restrictions on embryonic stem cell research and allow medical use of marijuana.

A woman passed a note to a clerk at a south side Casey's General Store on Sunday, announcing a robbery.

DES MOINES Iowa Gov. Chet Culver said on Wednesday that the federal government may boost funding for a new state program to help disaster victims with housing and business recovery if demand for the program ...

Anti-torture activists will be on hand this afternoon at Drake University's Knapp Center in Des Moines to protest U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Roberts.

Former Galesburg police lieutenant pleads guilty in drug case Braley gets plenty of advice on House bailout bill Davenport police investigate overnight shooting Fire at Clinton biofuels plant causes $500k ...

DES MOINES, Iowa - Republican presidential candidate John McCain, once renowned for his jocular sessions with journalists, appeared irritable and at times sarcastic in an interview in which he defended running ...

DES MOINES, Iowa - A man who was run over by a bus in downtown Des Moines has filed a lawsuit against the bus driver and the agency that runs the service.

Des Moines police on Wednesday night released pictures of two men they say are connected to a fatal hit-and-run on Sept.