Urbandale News

One of the Polk County sheriff's deputies involved in the fatal shooting of an Urbandale man has returned to duty although a state investigation into the June 8 incident is not completed.

Results of Monday's text-vote election are in: Buster and The Punks, an Urbandale teen band, will take the stage this weekend during the second 80/35 Music Festival in Western Gateway Park in Des Moines.

Urbandale City Council member Mary Polson still cringes when she hears the word Razamatazz.

Volunteers from the Urbandale Food Pantry will walk with shopping carts in the Urbandale Fourth of July parade to collect donations of nonperishable food items and personal products, such as shampoo, toilet paper, deodorant, toothpaste, toothbrushes and diapers.

Hundreds of people filled the front and back lawns of the Urbandale Historical Society's Olmsted-Urban house Sunday afternoon, enjoying homemade vanilla ice cream and pies, and slurping down lemonade.

Treasa Brown stared in disbelief Wednesday as a Polk County District Court jury convicted a Des Moines teenager of a less serious charge in the shooting death of her son.

Iowa cities in metropolitan areas have grown the most since 2000 with numbers from the U.S. Census Bureau showing Waukee as the fastest growing city in the state.

This year's vacation Bible school at St. Stephen's Lutheran Church in Urbandale was all about discovery.

A secret competition rages on in Urbandale. Who has the biggest fireworks shells: Living History Farms or the city of Urbandale? Cathy Conklin is confident she does.

Prosecutors this morning rested their case in the trial of a Des Moines man accused of shooting a rival gang member last year outside an Urbandale bar.

Nine children and one adult were taken to the hospital this afternoon after two vans collided on Iowa Highway 141 near Grimes.

During a special petting zoo at the Urbandale Public Library on Tuesday , young library-goers weren't petting soft fur or fine feathers, but the cool metal of musical instruments.

Bob Layton Trail would link to the existing Raccoon River Valley trail; similar request for money last year was denied.

Urbandale police are requesting the public's help in identifying a man who used a credit card stolen in May.

Prosecutors said a Des Moines man on trial Wednesday for first-degree murder was a gang member who shot a man in a rival gang during a fight outside an Urbandale bar.

Jury selection in the trial of one of two Des Moines men charged in a fatal shooting last year outside an Urbandale bar is expected to begin today.

Urbandale Senior Center Director Lorrie Nagel hears laughter echo down the hallway every Thursday at the senior center.

Tiffany Menke, executive director of the Urbandale Chamber of Commerce, said she is tired of the doom and gloom portrayed by the media of the economy.

A Des Moines man accused in a deadly shooting outside a suburban bar last summer is to stand trial.

A retirement open house will be held from 3 to 5:30 p.m. Friday for Urbandale Library director Sara Pearson, who is retiring after 35 years.