Nevada News Archives

A Des Moines woman accused of embezzling $5.9 million from Aviva USA appeared Monday afternoon in federal court in Las Vegas following a three-day flight from Iowa during which she attempted to cash a check so large that banks could not cover it, court records say.

Two 9-year-old boys line their tread-worn tires up head to head at the intersection of Aurora Avenue and 128th Street at the Day's Run housing development in Urbandale.

Tristan Joyce, 16 and of Blue Springs, jumps up and sticks to a velcro wall during the Blue Springs Fun Fall Festival on Saturday in Blue Springs.

Nevada, Ia. - The Story County Sheriff's Office should fire an employee who called an escort service with a county-issued cell phone, Supervisor James Strohman said today.

Charles Fairbanks, of Creighton, Mo., on behalf of he and his late wife Linda Fairbanks, announce the engagement of their daughter, Carla Sue Fairbanks, to Cody Lee Bond, son of Eddy and Tammy Bond, of Nevada.

Authorities in the Story County seat of Nevada have released the name of a woman killed in a house fire there.

Officials are investigating a fatal house fire in Story County. Two people were in the Nevada two-story apartment home when the fire started Wednesday afternoon.

Officials are investigating a fatal fire house fire in the Story County seat of Nevada.

Nevada, Ia. - A woman is dead following a house fire here this afternoon, authorities said.

Garrett Mason, 17, Nevada, accused of stabbing two Nevada High School students to death May 25, is asking for a change of judge and change of venue, according to online Vernon County Circuit Court records.

The designated public health agency for Story County has set its seasonal flu clinics through November.

Health officials in Polk and Story counties have set dates for fall flu clinics.

A man wanted in Boone and Story counties was arrested in Des Moines on Tuesday afternoon following a purse-snatching. Tristan Raymond Poole, 27, of Nevada, Ia., is charged with second-degree robbery in the mugging of Olga Owen, 78, of Des Moines.