Des Moines IA

(Bob Fisher, KGLO)–A Belmond woman accused of trafficking a teenage girl and facing life in prison has pleaded not guilty. According to court documents, 41-year-old Amanda Goff is accused of taking a 14-year-old girl on January 21st to a hotel in Perry with the intent to sell the victim into commercial sexual...

If you follow Kansas City restaurant news, you’ve probably come across Whitney VinZant’s name. His restaurant group, W. VinZant Restaurants, has 14 locations under its portfolio now. Recently, VinZant and his team acquired the Plaza’s Café Trio, in business since 2004. The restaurateur keeps a low profile, but his...

Northwest Iowa — Thursday’s blizzard conditions that resulted in localized areas of zero visibility caught many motorists off guard, resulting in numerous pileups on roads throughout the region, with injuries reported in some of them. Kevin Krull, a trooper with the Iowa State Patrol, says there are several things to...

Starting in January, Iowans who have Medicaid for their health insurance will have to prove they’re eligible twice a year, not just once.

ANKENY, Iowa — An Ankeny contractor has been sentenced to prison for taking customer checks and not completing the work he was paid to do and later committing bankruptcy fraud. Louis Grant Peterson, 61, was sentenced Thursday to three years in prison for making false declarations in a bankruptcy proceeding. Peterson,...

(Dallas County) An infant suffered injuries in a two-vehicle crash in Dallas County. The Iowa State Patrol says the accident happened late Saturday night on Highway 169, and Maple Street. According to the report a 2011 Chevy Suburban traveling northbound on Highway 169 and driven by 24-year-old Dakota Joe Pratt...

DES MOINES, Iowa (KCRG) - Iowa has settled a lawsuit with Menards over claims the home improvement chain misled customers about its rebate program. The settlement comes after 2020 claims that the company’s advertising for its 11-percent rebate program was misleading to customers. “Iowans deserve to know the best...

Something almost every Christmas-celebrating family has in common is that cookies are a holiday tradition. But what varies from family to family is what type of cookies they make (and leave out on Christmas Eve as a treat for Santa to snack on when he arrives to leave presents under the tree).

Pieper Lewis, a sexual trafficking victim who drew national attention after she was charged with murdering one of her alleged abusers, has turned herself in more than 18 months after disappearing while in Atlanta, where she had been sent for treatment, authorities say. She was being held Friday afternoon in the Polk...

DES MOINES, Iowa (KCRG) - The Iowa Department of Education released the latest enrollment numbers showing public schools continue to lose students while private schools gain enrollment across the state. Public school and public charter enrollment dropped about 1.5 percent from last year, while private school...