West Des Moines News

A metro woman accused of embezzling nearly $6 million from a West Des Moines insurance company is free on bond, but will be back in court Friday.

One year ago, Lois Feldman and Ross Walsh were hauled out of a handicapped toilet stall at the Metrodome, "upset," "drunk" and "uncooperative," according to a police report, their coitus interrupted by security officers.

12 - Police arrested a 41-year-old Des Moines woman for second-offense OWI. 1200 block of Office Park Road, Nov.

Dakota City, Ia. - A West Des Moines man on trial for the roadside murder of his estranged wife and her friend admitted that he shot both in the head when a co-worker called him minutes later, the co-worker testified Tuesday.

Police have testified that accused murderer Kyle Deemer escaped them twice during high-speed chases down central Iowa back roads, and even through a farm pasture and corn field.

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Dakota City, Ia. - A West Des Moines man who allegedly murdered his estranged wife and her friend along a central Iowa highway last year was so focused on his victims that he scarcely noticed a minivan full of onlookers, an eyewitness testified today.

West Des Moines police have arrested a person they are calling, "a known bomb maker" after an explosive device was found inside his vehicle.

Achievements Jim Miller, executive director of the Historic Valley Junction Foundation, was named this year's winner of the friend of hospitality award by the Greater Des Moines Convention and Visitors Bureau.

The trial of a Des Moines man accused of killing his wife and another man in Marshall County last fall is scheduled to start.

Iowa Friends of Foster Children Foundation is looking for people to serve on their board and help plan for a walk fundraiser in Des Moines on May 1. Volunteers are needed to help increase public awareness, find walk sponsors, seek in-kind donations, increase fundraising efforts and help with media outreach.

Backers of a proposed dog park on Des Moines' south side are thinking smaller. City planners have pegged the total cost of the park at about $275,000, but a no-frills version could be completed for $40,000 or less.

Incumbents suffered this week from a "kick the bums out" sentiment among voters, said Steffen Schmidt, an Iowa State University professor of political science.

West Des Moines city officials will host a reception to honor war veterans before Monday's City Council meeting.

Voters in Des Moines will go to the polls again in December after no candidate in the Ward 1 or at-large council races captured more than 50 percent of the vote.

Collin Mathis of Clive has been awarded academic honor scholarships from Northwestern College, Orange City, Iowa, for the 201011 school year.

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Voters will decide the next two years of city leadership in nearly 1,000 communities as people across the state head to the polls for city elections.

Officials confirmed to KCCI on Friday that the Petland store in West Des Moines has closed.