West Des Moines restaurant where all victims ate is cooperating with police.
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16-year-old tells police he wanted to see if his print job would pass muster.
What West Des Moines woman found in her gas tank wasn’t all that sweet.
Lockdown at Clive Elementary School lasted about 15 minutes.
Fortune Gifts owner says his business and his water pipes are legal.
Victims reported having used their credit cards at a number of Des Moines metro area businesses, especially restaurants, before suspects allegedly tried to rack up more than $6,250 in charges.
Activities include a ceremony at 5, followed by family friendly activities.
Woman reportedly made withdrawals of more than $3,000 after man asked for loans.
Police chase vehicle through parts of West Des Moines, Waukee and Urbandale ends with a crash in a cornfield near Redfield.
Rookie crime-fighters, Valley Junction hookah shop owner and his buddy foil a robbery.
Shots fired as employees at Fortune Gifts take down alleged robber.
Those who allegedly mix drinking and driving keep West Des Moines Police Officers Busy
When 17-year-old acts differently, he acts.
Nah, probably not.
Two charged with alcohol-related offenses.
Police say “copious amounts of alcohol” were served at party, where they seized a bong and suspected narcotics.
Subject who wasn’t sure where he was or what time it was would have avoided charges if he had waited for a sober third party to pick him up, authorities said.
West Des Moines Police said residents reported hearing four or five shots northwest of the venue early Sunday morning.
Residents can clean out their medicine cabinets and safely drop off prescription drugs Saturday at the West Des Moines Police Department.
A would-be thief seeking copper to scrap damaged West Des Moines Waterworks equipment.
A West Des Moines couple returned home to find three guns missing and three safes gone.
The couple told police they were tailgated by a van on Interstate 235, then the van's driver followed them to Jordan Creek Parkway, where he got out of the vehicle carrying a ball bat.
West Des Moines will have extra officers on the roads Friday through Sunday looking for drunk drivers.
Matthew Elliott won a second trial in the death of Alexis Gilbert. A Polk County jury convicted him in the new trial today; he faces up to 35 years in prison.
Matthew Elliott, charged with fatally beating an infant three years ago, testified in court Monday that he was not the girl's sole caretaker the night of her death.
Police were called to investigate the theft of a $6,000 crucifix and other items. The owner said the theft may have happened after a Red Hat Society gathering at her home before the holidays.
Thieves didn't let the grass grow up around a temporarily abandoned lawn tractor. Also in the police blotter, an alleged fight over rum turns ugly and a couple sleeping late on a Saturday morning got a rude awakening.
The woman said she was afraid of her boyfriend's cousin, but she was the one who went to jail.
Custody arrangements will be discussed before a Polk County family court judge next week.
Copper wire, steel pipes and tools were stolen in three burglaries reported on the same day.
Woman allegedly stuffed a box of macaroni and cheese and a household cleanser in her purse.
Also on the blotter, woman reportedly admits “I have a problem” after rings and diet pills turn up missing.
Was it kids’ play or something nefarious sitting in a puddle of glass?
The woman allegedly became jealous of another patron and refused to leave a West Des Moines bar.
“Gifts” included bags of raw meat, small dolls and petroleum jelly.
To commemorate the one-year anniversary of real estate agent Ashley Okland's death, a memorial service was held this morning at Lutheran Church of Hope in West Des Moines.
West Des Moines police were called to a mobile home on the Beach Girls property early Monday morning to investigate a report of a man stabbed in the throat.
To mark the one-year anniversary of the shooting death of Realtor Ashley Okland, a memorial service is planned for Monday. It will also let those in the business talk about Realtor safety.
Roommates wonder who’s been sleeping in their beds – and tossing their porridge bowls about.