Des Moines News

Life with a two-year-old can be a challenge. "Want a piece of meat?" Karen Purscell asks her son Nas, "Yeah, it's good for you." Especially when you're homeless.

Toads are a big part of the decor at Toad's Tavern. There's also plenty to do, including board games.

Auditions for "Beyond the Rainbow" will be held at The Des Moines Playhouse at 6:00 P.M. on Sunday, Nov.

An e-mail circulating around Iowa has an ominous warning from a Des Moines fire fighter, but it's a hoax.

Alba Perez didn't find out until years later that her mother sent her away from her native Honduras to the United States to protect her.

Des Moines Fire Capt. Timothy Hartman had never had to catch chickens on the job.

26 in Baltimore. Dates are currently set through an April 10 performance in Des Moines, IA, with stops in 18 cities along the way.

Gov. Chet Culver is ordering a review of 30 tax credit programs administered by six state agencies to determine if they are meeting goals established when they were enacted.

A plan to boycott West Des Moines businesses until bass vibrations from the Val Air Ballroom are reduced has attracted little support among neighbors who say they will apply pressure in other ways to solve the problem.

Des Moines, Iowa: Charming, impressive, surprising Submitted by SHNS on Tue, 11/17/2009 - 13:14 We kicked off our own little Discover Des Moines weekend at the city's center of gravity: the Iowa State Capitol, a pile of murky limestone capped with a magnificent 23-karat gold-leaf dome that roosts on a hilltop overlooking downtown.

At-large Des Moines City Council candidate Leisha Barcus will hold a question-and-answer session with residents at 5 p.m. today at the Four Mile Community Center, 3711 Easton Blvd.

Authorities said they are looking for an escapee from the Des Moines Work Release Facility.

Des Moines City Councilman Brian Meyer today gave a resounding "no" to the notion of a local option sales tax in the metro area.

The Great Ape Trust is relocating its colony of orangutans from a research center in Des Moines.

Des Moines police say a man and woman claim they were so intoxicated they picked the wrong house when they came home from an evening on the town.

Clive Thank you to the West Des Moines Rotary Club for their generous donation of dictionaries to all of the third- and fourth-graders at Clive Elementary.

Achievements Jim Miller, executive director of the Historic Valley Junction Foundation, was named this year's winner of the friend of hospitality award by the Greater Des Moines Convention and Visitors Bureau.

Stogdill's TV & Appliance, a 52-year-old family business, survived the dawn of big-box retailers and cheap, disposable electronics, but in the end it couldn't survive the most recent recession.

An aide to Gov. Chet Culver said Tuesday that the governor completed his first triathlon last weekend and lost 25 pounds while training for the event.

A Des Moines jewelry store owner was the victim of a rather elaborate burglary attempt, police said.