At least six people were killed and dozens more injured after tornadoes ripped through parts of North Texas destroying homes, officials said. More than 100 homes suffered damage in the Rancho Brazos subdivision near ...

Cadaver dogs and cops searched an Oregon farm for a third day today on a tip that they might find the remains of missing Utah mom Susan Powell. So far the search has failed to turn up any signs of the woman who ...

Jodi Arias cried through the first day of  death penalty hearing today as the siblings of her slain ex-boyfriend told the jury they didn’t want to “see (their) brother’s murderer anymore.” ...

Authorities and zoologists in Wisconsin removed a throng of exotic reptiles being housed in an urban residence this week — including a Gila monster, crocodiles and snakes — as shocked neighbors looked on. ...

As more and more wind turbines pop up across the state and country, researchers at Iowa State University are studying a new way to build the towers that hold them up into the sky. Grant Schmitz, a graduate student ...

Many Iowa drivers soon will be able to go on-line to renew their license — for eight years rather than just five under a bill Governor Terry Branstad signed into law Wednesday. Drivers with vision problems or ...

(Courtesy Radio Iowa News) – The police departments in the state’s largest city and several of its suburbs are holding a weapons take-back program that begins today. The Urbandale Police Department is ...

(Courtesy Iowa Radio News) – New records were set for high temperatures across Iowa on Tuesday afternoon. Meteorologist Kenny Podrazik, at the National Weather Service, says it was exceptionally hot across ...

Iowa Congressman Bruce Braley, a Democrat from Waterloo, says the IRS scandal has taken the focus off of its legitimate duty to investigate non-profit groups that are breaking the rules. “I have made it very clear ...

There’s not much public action so far today at the statehouse, but Senate Democratic Leader Mike Gronstal says legislators meeting in private are making progress. “All over the place,” Gronstal says, “every ...

A Democrat in the Iowa Senate has filed the paperwork to form an exploratory committee for a campaign for governor. Jack Hatch of Des Moines served 12 years in the Iowa House and is currently in his 11th year in the ...

(Courtesy Iowa Radio News) – Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley says two big stories out of Washington, D.C. in the past few days show the federal government is becoming “a threat to freedom and liberties.” In ...