Jim Caufield and Jeff Webster
The lifeless bodies of two people and a seriously wounded third were found about 8 p.m. in a Perry house by officers of the Perry Police Department. The cause and circumstances of the deaths are unknown at this hour....
In fewer than five minutes Wednesday morning, the 750 students in the Perry Elementary School, led by their teachers, evacuated the schoolhouse in the first building-wide ALICE drill.
ALICE is the school district's method for responding to an intruder, such...
Fundraising for the connector trail linking the Raccoon River Valley Trail and High Trestle Trail got a big boost Monday when the Let's Connect Big Bike was installed at the Perry Welcome Depot.
The enormous machine stands nearly 15 feet...
DAWSON -- The five-member Dawson City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to dissolve the Dawson Volunteer Fire Department and merge the current personnel and equipment with the Perry Volunteer Fire Department. The 28E sharing agreement governing the arrangement was unanimously approved...
With agreeable weather gracing the Perry area, various outdoor projects were undertaken.
One of those was the placing of new flags on the south face of the Hotel Pattee.
Hotel chief engineer Clint Nelsen replaced 11 flags on the facade with...
Two Perry males, one juvenile and one adult, were arrested shortly about 1:15 a.m. Thursday after leading a Perry Police Department officer on a 10-mile hot pursuit that ultimately engaged the Dallas County Sheriff's office, the Boone County Sheriff's...
A house fire reported shortly before 7:30 p.m. Friday brought the Perry Volunteer Fire Department to 1111 31st St. in Perry.
A brief blaze in the house's chimney was quickly controlled by the use of a fire extinguisher wielded by...
Happy belated birthday to us!
ThePerryNews.com slowly came to life in early February last year, and at first we were not sure if this venture would work.
We knew there was a hunger for daily news and sports in Perry and...
A vehicle left the roadway shortly after 7 p.m. Tuesday in the 15000 block of Iowa Highway 141 Diagonal, locally known as the Moran curve, snapping a power pole and coming to rest upside down in the north ditch.
The...
BOUTON -- Acting on a tip that the suspect in Monday's double murder in Des Moines was in the Woodward area, officers from five law enforcement agencies captured the fugitive Tuesday night after a brief high-speed pursuit and a...