GOP's Walker touts state ties during trip to Iowa

Iowa baseball coach Jack Dahm is out after 10 seasons with the Hawkeyes. Iowa athletic director Gary Barta announced Thursday that Dahm's contract won't be renewed after a decade leading the state's only remaining Division I program. Dahm, hired by Iowa in ...

APPEALS COURT SKEPTICAL OF BIRTH CONTROL MANDATE — Judges on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals pushed back strongly on the Obama administration as it appeared in an appeals court for the first time to defend its birth control coverage mandate. A ...

An Ames man has been arrested Monday and charged with sexual assault in connection with an incident at an Iowa State University dorm room last month, authorities said. Louis James Rizzo, 23, was arrested Monday by the Story County Sheriff's Office ...

It's been too many years that the best high school football players in Illinois took a look at Ann Arbor, Madison, Iowa City and South Bend before they ever thought seriously about a splotch in the Central Illinois cornfields called ...

Gov. Terry Branstad and legislative negotiators have hammered out a bipartisan agreement to use federal money to expand health-care coverage to needy Iowans by financing insurance premiums for participants who help manage their costs with healthy ...

The Iowa Senate voted 43-6 Wednesday to pass a wide-ranging, historic tax relief package that will benefit all property classes, provide an estimated $120 credit to income taxpayers, and give a break to low-income working families. Supporters called ...

Members of the Dayton community gathered for a candlelight prayer vigil at the Emanuel Lutheran Church on Wednesday evening to honor 15-year-old Kathlynn Shepard, who has been missing since Monday.(Photo: Bryon Houlgrave, The Des Moines ...