A 20-year-old man was shot and killed Friday night on the east side of Des Moines, police said. Officers responded to the shooting about 10:20 p.m. at East 30th Street and Garfield Avenue. While repsonding to the call, officers received an additional report of a person down in the street, police said.

A high-speed pursuit in Fremont County Saturday night led to the arrest of Brian Robert Vanderpool, 46. Deputies originally tried to pull over Vanderpool for a traffic stop. He drove off, fleeing from sheriff's deputies with his vehicle reaching speeds around 100 miles per hour.

A large inflatable duck escaped a charity event in Des Moines, Iowa, after breaking free of its tethers, and was spotted tumbling down a road as motorists calmly drive by.

Council Bluffs police arrested a man on a child endangerment warrant a few days after a 16-month-old girl was found dead at an apartment. Police arrested Javon Joshua Jennings, 22, on Wednesday. He was booked into the Pottawattamie County Jail, where he's being held on $250,000 bond, according to a news release from the Council Bluffs Police Department.

One person was injured in a motorcycle wreck in Wellman

Firefighters have a barn fire under control in rural Scott County, Iowa. Crews responded to the 21000 block of Utica Ridge Road, which is northeast of the Rhythm City Casino

A man was captured after running from police in two states. Police said an officer spotted the man driving a stolen vehicle on Interstate 480 near F Street. When the officer tried to pull the vehicle over, the driver took off and went into Council Bluffs.

Tornado Warning including Oakland IA, Carson IA, Macedonia IA until 4:00 PM CDT

Des Moines police are investigating a shooting that sent three to the hospital early Thursday morning. Police were called to 1125 14th Place at around 3:16 a.m. after three shooting victims showed up at a local hospital.

Police are investigating a Friday afternoon shooting in Des Moines. Shortly after 3:30 p.m., police responded to a report of a shooting in the 2500 block of Lyon Street. Officers did not find a victim right way, but did see two cars that had crashed.

A Wisconsin man is facing an Attempted Murder charge, following a Wednesday night shooting in Mount Pleasant. Around 10:30 p.m. Wednesday, police said in a press release issued Thursday afternoon that Nathaniel David James Birdsong, 18, of Milwaukee, shot at two people from the inside of a vehicle at Fast Break gas station on Washington Street.

Crew on the scene of an apparent explosion and structure fire on 76th Street in north Davenport. Smoke from the fire can be seen for miles. The explosion was reported between 8:30 and 9 a.m. this morning.

A paper delivery boy was in the right place at the right time Tuesday morning when he spotted a house fire in Des Moines. The home is on East Leach Avenue, north of Easter Lake.

Police are investigating a drive-by shooting on the south side of Des Moines. Officers were called to the Taco Bell in the 5900 block of SE 14th Street just before 1 a.m. on Saturday. A black Acura was sitting in the intersection of SE 14th and Hart Avenue. The driver was identified as Leonard Hudson, who claimed to be shot. Upon closer investigation, investigators found he had been grazed by a bullet.

A shooting in Washington Wednesday night is under investigation by the Washington Police Department and the Division of Criminal Investigation

Davenport Police have arrested a man after a chase through the city on March 27. It happened just before 5:00 P.M. on Telegraph Road near the Putnam Museum. The chase ended when the suspect ditched the vehicle and ran from police.

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