The parents of the 16-year-old girl who died in a school bus fire in western Iowa last year are critical of school officials and the 74-year-old bus driver who also died.

Three more former employees at a northeast Iowa care facility are accused of having sex with patients, according to the Fayette County Sheriff's Office. All five are charged with sexual exploitation by a counselor or therapist, a felony, WHO-TV reports.

Authorities in Jasper County are investigating after a man was found dead in a home near Aurora Park in Newton. Lt. Wayne Winchell, with the Newton Police Department, said in a news release that officers were sent just before 7 p.m. Friday to a house in the 300 block of East 20th Street South on reports of a deceased male.

A Davenport man has been sentenced to up to 55 years in prison for the 2017 shooting death of another man in the front yard of a home

Iowa police investigating reports of a missing family of four. Kevin, Amy, Sterling and Adrianna Sharp left on a trip to Mexico earlier this month, according to family members’ social media posts.

A man charged as an accessory in the Council Bluffs slaying of a homeless man has been sentenced. Police say he and 43-year-old Michael Thacker were involved in the Nov. 28 slaying of 34-year-old David Simpson, whose body was found Dec. 11. He'd died of blunt force trauma. Police say all three men were homeless at the time

Man accused of killing a college basketball player in Oskaloosa says he was defending himself. Twenty-three-year-old Luke VanHemert is charged with second-degree murder, accused of stabbing to death 22-year-old Marquis Todd earlier this month. Todd played for William Penn University.

Des Moines police investigating rolling gun battle

There is a car fire near the Stoney Point Road and Williams Boulevard intersection in Cedar Rapids

A man has been accused of punching a woman, hitting her with a baseball bat and burning her while holding her at his Dubuque home. Court records say 43-year-old Lonnie Vandamme Jr. is charged with assault, false imprisonment and related crimes.

A trial has been delayed again for a northeast Iowa man whose dead 4-month-old son was found in an infant swing, his body infested with maggots

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.

Distracted driver plunges car into Iowa lake