Des Moines Menace face historic game

Des Moines Menace coach Casey Mann calls it the biggest match in the history of the franchise as they get set to host the Charleston Battery tonight, a professional team out of the USL’s First Division. It is the second round of the Lamar Hunt US Open Cup which...

Iowa scientists use sorghum to help Africa

Crop scientists from Africa are coming to central Iowa to learn ways to improve their main food source — sorghum — and to perhaps help a half-billion people to eat better. Stephanie Jacobson, spokeswoman for Johnston-based Pioneer Hi-Bred International,...

Search continues for Fort Dodge boy lost in flood

The search will resume shortly after sunrise for a missing north-central Iowa boy.Eight-year-old Jon Jenison of Fort Dodge has been missing since Sunday. For a third day, firefighters and community volunteers searched along Soldier Creek looking for the boy. He was...
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