Jim Caufield
A group of Perry High School students is meeting this week with Perry Middle School classes in order to talk about their service project, Soccer Balls for Malawi, which sends needed items and supplies -- and soccer balls -- ...
Passersby in downtown Perry Tuesday afternoon might have seen the enormous crane towering over the local landscape at Second and Bateman streets.
Doug Six, plant engineer at the Progressive Foundry Inc., said the crane was brought in to help install...
A surprise party greeted Perry Police Department Officer Trevor Hickey Wednesday afternoon at the Hotel Pattee, a reward for his completing 16 weeks of training at the Iowa Law Enforcement Academy in Johnston and attending the academy's graduation ceremony...
Tensions emerged at the June meeting of the Dallas County Conservation Board when city planners from Waukee seemed to dodge questions from the board -- for the third month in a row -- about the city's plans for crossing...
The Iowa Department of Public Safety issued an AMBER Alert at 12:34 a.m. Tuesday for two children:
Bryson Michael Jason Milroy, 4, who is 3'6" and 40 pounds, with blonde hair and blue eyes. He was last seen wearing a...
A Minburn man faces child endangerment charges after allegedly grabbing the steering wheel of a vehicle moving at high speed and causing an accident Saturday, according to the Polk County Sheriff's office.
Robert Lee Long Jr., 24, faces a felony...
The Perry Fine Arts Series presented the Greater Des Moines Community Band in a Sunday afternoon performance billed as a "spring concert," but the weather in Perry was better suited to shivering one's daffodils.
About 45 musicians from the all-volunteer...
An SUV came to rest upside down in the eastbound lane of Iowa Highway 141 west of Dawson Sunday about 11:30 a.m.
The driver sustained minor injuries in the mishap, according to the Perry First Responders.
The cause of the accident...
Barry Halling of Adel has seen his share of disasters in his 42-year career in public safety, including the last 24 years spent as coordinator of the Dallas County Office of Emergency Management.
He ticks them off as he talks --...
Day one of Team Family Credit Union's two-day bake sale for the Relay for Life of Dallas County raised $300, and there are plenty of baked dainties remaining for shoppers.
Team Family Credit Union members Tammy Wallace, Jenny Soto and...