Iowa

The owner of a water buffalo that ran loose in a Des Moines, Iowa, suburb for days in August has pleaded guilty for having an animal at large.

About 20 fragments were found, including a skull, rib sections, vertebra, a front leg bone and a kneecap, all believed to come from the same mastodon, according to a university news release.

Team USA won bronze for the men’s team final in artistic gymnastics on Monday, the first medal the men’s team has taken in 16 years.

People in hundreds of homes were told to get out as the Rock River could no longer take rain that has slammed the region.

The GOP-controlled state House’s passage of the legislation last week had made Iowa the latest state where lawmakers took steps that could imperil IVF.

The longtime Iowa principal who risked his life to save students during a shooting earlier this month was remembered Saturday not just for his heroic actions that day but for the unconditional love and compassion he showed his family and students during his years at Perry High School.

An Iowa principal who put himself in harm’s way to protect students during a school shooting earlier this month has died.

Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley were finding Iowa voters looking for alternatives to former President Donald Trump as they campaigned on the final weekend before 2024 voting begins. But voters’ reactions on Saturday showed how uncertain it is whether either candidate can dent Trump’s advantage.

The parents of the 17-year-old who killed a sixth grader and wounded seven others in a shooting at his small-town Iowa high school last week said in a statement Monday that they “had no inkling he intended the horrible violence he was about to inflict.”

The mother of an 11-year-old who was killed this week in a school shooting in Iowa remembers the boy as a friendly child who exuded happiness.

Perry High School principal Dan Marburger was one of five people injured in Thursday’s shooting. His daughter said she wasn’t surprised to hear that he tried to calm down the shooter because “that’s just Dad.”

Thursday was the first day back in school for students following the holiday break.

Powerball losers in Iowa were actually winners for about seven hours this week after the state’s lottery mistakenly posted the wrong winning numbers for the game.

An Iowa teen convicted in the 2021 beating death of a high school Spanish teacher was sentenced to life in prison with a possibility of parole in 25 years.

The Iowa Hawkeyes defeated DePaul in front of over 55,000 fans at Kinnick Stadium, setting a women’s basketball single-game attendance record.

Voting by the public as well as the AAU Sullivan Award committee, AAU board of directors, sports media and past winners determined the winner.

Donald Trump stopped at a fraternity house before heading to watch the Iowa-Iowa State football game.

An Iowa judge temporarily blocked the state’s new ban on most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy days after Gov. Kim Reynolds signed the measure into law.

Iowa’s ban on most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy has been signed into law as a judge considers abortion advocates’ plea to put the restrictions on hold. The new legislation prohibits almost all abortions once cardiac activity can be detected, which is usually around six weeks of pregnancy and before many women know they are pregnant. That’s a...

Iowa’s Republican-led Legislature has passed a bill banning most abortions after roughly six weeks of pregnancy.