The Latest Breaking News from Des Moines

A 17-year-old opened fire at a small-town Iowa high school on the first day of school after the winter break, killing a sixth-grader and wounding five others as students barricaded in offices and fled in panic.

Students preparing for their first classes after winter break were forced to duck into classrooms, barricade themselves in offices or run for an exit before the suspected shooter was found dead. At least one victim is a school administrator, a law enforcement official said.

Investigators believe suspect died of self-inflicted gunshot wound, and at least one of the victims is a school administrator

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The key to understanding the GOP furor over "anti-semitism" on campus? A altar to Lucifer in the Des Moines Capitol

Jurors have cleared an Iowa man charged with murder in the shooting deaths of two students at a Des Moines alternative school, a month after another man was convicted for his role in the killings

Democrats moving from Iowa to South Carolina for first vote in primary cycle means less money for Midwestern state.

A jury has found an Iowa teenager guilty of second-degree murder and voluntary manslaughter in the deaths of two students that he shot at a Des Moines alternative school earlier this year

Lawyers have given their opening statements in the trial of a Des Moines teenager accused of murdering two students at an alternative school for at-risk youth

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More than six times as many Black women were killed in Iowa in 2020 than the year before. What is driving the gun violence?