Indianola News

Des Moines police arrested six men and one woman in a prostitution sting Friday evening at a local motel.

Madison County Supervisor Joan Acela announced she would seek the Republican nomination for the Iowa House District 73 seat in the June primary.

Indianola Community School District officials are proposing a spending cut of at least $300,000 this year to cushion the blow of a state budget cut.

Theisen's announced it will add three more stores to its chain for a total of 20.

The John Deere Foundation approved a one-time grant totaling up to $1 million to be distributed to United Way organizations in several John Deere unit communities in the United States.

Backers of a proposed dog park on Des Moines' south side are thinking smaller. City planners have pegged the total cost of the park at about $275,000, but a no-frills version could be completed for $40,000 or less.

Police foiled two efforts to steal vehicles from used-car dealerships - including one gunpoint carjacking - on the capital city's south side Wednesday.

The photo of Robert Thornburg shows a young soldier standing in front of a curtain wearing a smile with his uniform.

Incumbents do lose elections. Unless they are a U.S. senator from Iowa or live in Terrace Hill, it happens all the time.

Renae Spencer was hired last week to manage the Warren County's meal program for senior citizens.

Indianola voters ousted longtime mayor Jerry Kelley, 66, who received the fewest votes at 391 in today's election.

State officials are investigating a manure runoff from an open feedlot in Carroll County into Brushy Creek that affected at least five miles of a stream.

When Gov. Chet Culver issued a 10 percent across-the-board cut earlier this month, he encouraged school districts to use their cash reserves to make up for the loss of state money.

Indianola police arrested two men Friday for vandalizing 14 Indianola school buses overnight, causing all schools in the district to close for the day.

Indianola schools were closed Friday, Oct. 30, due to widespread bus vandalism, officials say.

Services for Richard Neal Cambron, 57, who died Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009, in Des Moines, were at 10:30 a.m., Monday, Oct.

Tommy Scovel revs the engine on his imported motorcycle, lifting the bike onto its back wheel, and cruises at low speed across a Des Moines parking lot.

Persistent rainfall has trapped what experts say will be a record-setting corn crop in Iowa's fields.

Warren County leaders are now taking contract proposals for two energy-saving projects at the Annette Nature Center in rural Indianola.

Free doses of the H1N1 flu vaccine are now available in Indianola. Public health officials are encouraging people qualified for the vaccine to get one since the flu is already spreading throughout the county.