The brother of Des Moines Police Chief Dana Wingert was killed in a car accident in Sac County on Monday. The Iowa State Patrol says Deon Wingert was driving on County Road N28 when he drifted into a ditch. The impact rolled his Jeep and Wingert was thrown from the sun roof even though he was wearing his seatbelt. He was pronounced dead at the scene

One person has died and another is injured following a crash near Gilbert on Tuesday morning. Zechariah Conrad, 25, was traveling northbound on Highway 69 at 150th Street when he crossed the center line and struck 65-year-old Richard Tjernagel head-on. Both vehicles entered the ditch and Conrad was ejected from his car when it rolled.

The Iowa Department of Public Safety says Kory Doeppke has been charged with two counts of Homicide by Vehicle in a deadly crash that killed two teenagers. Doeppke, 20, from Elkader, Iowa, failed to stop at a stop sign, and hit a truck, on February 16, the Clayton County Sheriff’s Office reported

A trailer being pulled by a pickup truck on Interstate 29 came unhitched early Monday morning, causing a rollover crash involving two vehicles. It happened around 6 a.m. just north of the Nebraska Avenue exit.

Authorities were called to a gunfire incident on 40th Street SE and Soutter Avenue Court SE around 4:40 a.m. Monday morning. Police tell TV9 one person was injured by a gunshot wound.

A fire in Adel late Friday night left several people without a home. Investigators say the Adel Village Apartment complex caught fire just after 11 p.m. Crews are not sure what caused the fire, but they say it resulted in severe damage to units on the second and third floors. A unit on the first floor also has severe water damage.

Police responded to a rollover accident in Council Bluffs early Friday morning. Police said when they arrived at 8th and Mill streets, they found 20-year-old Benjamin Beer standing next to his overturned car. Investigators said Beer's car struck a parked car and rolled, damaging another car. He had minor injuries from the accident but refused treatment. He was taken to the Pottawattamie County Jail and charged with operating while intoxicated

Authorities say firefighters have helped three people from a burning house in Waterloo. The fire was reported a little after 4 a.m. Thursday. Two people who saw the smoke followed it to the home and tried to use a garden house on the flames after they called 911.

Late night arrests put two men in jail on drug related charges in Fremont County, Iowa late Tuesday and early Wednesday. Mitchell, 20, is accused of delivering LSD, fentanyl, xanax and mushrooms, according to the Fremont County Sheriff.

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Des Moines firefighters worked late Monday night to extinguish a house fire. Crews responded to a home in the 3700 block of Indianapolis Avenue just before 10:30 p.m. on reports of a house fire.

Police in Des Moines are warning the public of a wanted man considered armed and dangerous. Officials with the Des Moines Police Department announced via Facebook Monday that they are searching for 30-year-old Joshua Dean Green, who is wanted out of Warren County on probation violations related to weapons charged.

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A Des Moines man is being held in the Polk County Jail after police say he threatened to kill a woman and tried to burn down a home. Thirty-eight-year-old Antonio Starks faces several charges for the incident including first degree arson, assault causing bodily injury, assault domestic abuse, and violation of a no contact order.

Police say 21-year-old Michael Havig was arrested on March 11 after they responded to multiple shots fired calls on 2nd Street in the early hours of the morning

A former East High School employee was arrested and charged with sexual exploitation after authorities say he inappropriately touched a student on a bus going home from a show choir competition

Police arrested an Iowa man after he allegedly started a fight with an officer and took the officer's taser. Des Moines police Sgt. Paul Parizek says an officer noticed a Honda Civic that had plates that didn't match the vehicle. When an officer attempted to stop the vehicle at East 29th Street and John Patterson Road the driver, later found to be 55-year-old Daniel Ockenfels, refused to pull over.

Firefighters are trying to determine the cause of a fire that damaged a funeral business on Des Moines’ southwest side. Des Moines fire officials at the scene told KCCI that calls came in just after 6 p.m. Saturday for reports of a fire. When emergency response personnel showed up, they found light smoke and flames surrounding Williams Wilbert Vault, a funeral home at 3420 SW Ninth St.

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Officers with the Bettendorf Police Department say they were called to the intersection of Kimberly Road and Lincoln Road after a suspect ran from an officer during a traffic stop. The incident occurred just before midnight Thursday night.

Council Bluffs Police say no one was injured when a car was driven off the road Thursday morning into a body of water. Police say 58-year-old Frank Spring of Council Bluffs was driving his 2008 Chevy Malibu through Big Lake Park around 5:30 a.m. He looked away from the road and lost control, driving off the road and into a body of water at the park. Police say alcohol was not a factor in the accident.

Four people were arrested Wednesday after an officer deployed a Taser while responding to an in-progress case of identity fraud, Council Bluffs police said. Officers responded to the US Bank at 421 W. Broadway around 9:44 a.m. after a fraud in progress was reported.

Des Moines police have released the name of a man killed early Wednesday morning in the Drake neighborhood. The man has been identified as 34-year-old Christopher John Latimer of Des Moines.

Police are investigating a homicide in the Drake neighborhood Wednesday morning, said Sgt. Paul Parizek, spokesman for Des Moines police. Around 6 a.m., a neighbor in an apartment building at at 1076 21st Street heard a dispute, including yelling and screaming, Parizek said.

Police are investigating a death in the Drake neighborhood Wednesday morning and they say it is suspicious. Police were called to 1076 21st Street just before 6:00 a.m. Sgt. Paul Parizek with the Des Moines Police Department says a neighbor in the building heard yelling and screaming in another apartment and called police. When officers arrived they made contact with a male who made some statements to them that he had harmed another person, and he was taken into custody.

Suspect still free in shooting that injured woman

A West Liberty man suffered potentially life-threatening injuries Sunday after accidentally shooting himself outside a Davenport gun show. The unidentified 42-year-old "had a negligent discharge of his personal firearm while seated in his vehicle," police wrote in an email Monday, saying the investigation into the incident is preliminary.

A woman was injured in a shooting in Des Moines Monday night and police are still looking for the man who pulled the trigger. It happened just before 9:30 p.m. in the 1800 block of Arlington Avenue. That’s just west of 2nd Avenue and south of North High School

A Kossuth County man has been charged with first degree murder after a woman was found dead over the weekend. Deputies were called to a domestic assault in the 200 block of 2nd Street early Saturday morning, where they found the body of 38-year-old Krista Hesebeck.

Two drivers were injured when an SUV struck a tow truck that was assisting a third vehicle near the intersection of I-80 and I-74 on Monday, March 5. Both injuries were described as non-life threatening. Both drivers were issued citations as a result of the crash, according to police