Boone County News

The Italy of 1900 was a newly unified country. The majority of people were poor and the government was helpless while the Pope's power prevailed.

Arson is believed to be the cause of a house fire in Boone County. The Boone County Sheriff said a meth lab started the fire inside a Luther home in September.

Officials said the body of a 38-year-old hunter from Ames has been found in Boone County.

The body of a hunter from Ames has been found in Boone County. Searchers found the body of Khouan Khamlue, 38, about a mile from where his vehicle was parked on state public hunting grounds.

Officials say the body of a 38-year-old hunter from Ames has been found in Boone County.

There are new details in a fire that destroyed a Luther, Iowa home on September 2. Boone County authorities said they interviewed the two men who ran from the house after the home caught fire.

LUTHER a ' The woman who was killed Saturday evening following a bicycling accident at Ledges State Park in Boone County has been identified as 53-year-old Rosemary Rigsby of Toledo by the Iowa Department of Natrual Resources.

LUTHER a ' A woman was killed Saturday evening after apparently losing control of her bicycle at Ledges State Park in Boone County.

Officials said a teenager was rescued from a burning house in Luther. Boone County authorities said Wednesday night's fire is suspicious; they're looking for two men seen running from the house.

Boone County deputies are looking for two persons of interest they believe fled the scene of a house fire in Luther.

Trapped on the second floor of a burning home, a 16-year-old is saved after neighbors rush to her rescue.

Officials say a teenager has been rescued from a burning house in the central Iowa town of Luther.

Police said they're treating a fire that destroyed a home in Luther on Wednesday as a crime, but they won't say why.

" Republican gubernatorial candidate Jerry Behn says he wants to create a business climate that will support good-paying jobs that will keep young people from leaving Iowa.

The Iowa Supreme Court has denied a request from the attorney general's office to review a ruling that threw out hours of videotaped statements made by a Boone woman accused of helping plot to kill her husband.

Bob and Nancy Briggs live a long way from the Amazon, but on their modest Boone County farm they nurture water lilies indigenous to the distant South American river.

Ed Failor, Jr., who heads the conservative group Iowans for Tax Relief, made headlines during this year's legislative session when he compared Democratic legislative leaders to 'jack-booted Nazis' after an unruly crowd of conservatives was ejected from the Iowa House during a public hearing on proposed changes to the state income tax code.

This time last year it was cursed for its flooding. But Friday, the Des Moines River flowing through the city will be celebrated as a state water trail.

A Boone woman was killed and a man was injured Friday night when a car they were riding in slid into a ditch and rolled several times, state troopers said Saturday.