Articles Tagged: Des Moines

The former LGBTQ bed-and-breakfast in Mount Vernon has become a new beacon in different ways to the community in central Iowa.

A judge has found a Des Moines activist guilty of a felony theft count for taking a police flyer used to identify protesters from an officer’s back pocket during a protest last year.

Vulgar comments and slurs. Political favoritism in hiring and contracts. Secretly recorded and eavesdropped conversations.

A white Iowa woman who said she drove her SUV into two children in 2019 to try to kill them because of their race was sentenced Thursday to 25 years in prison on federal hate crimes charges.

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Joey Jordison was already a veteran of the Des Moines metal scene when he founded the band that would become Slipknot in 1995, along with percussionist Shawn Crahan and bassist Paul Gray.

Des Moines has become an extreme example of the conflict over clean water between agriculture and cities in farm states with minimal regulation.

A Des Moines woman was sentenced Wednesday to eight years in prison for damaging valves and setting fire to construction equipment along the Dakota Access pipeline.

The fire early Wednesday in Des Moines destroyed a memorial created last summer by the Des Moines Black Liberation Movement. It honored Black Iowa youth who have died in recent years.

Michael McKinney, 26, of Saint Charles, Iowa, pleaded guilty Wednesday to intimidation with a dangerous weapon and willful injury, charges that each carry up to 10 years in prison.

Free performances slated for Des Moines, Iowa City and Muscatine