Jim Caufield
For the first time in Dallas County history, voters Tuesday approved the financing for a new $22.9 million county law enforcement center, including a new county jail and sheriff's administrative offices.
With the Dallas County Auditor's office reporting returns from...
Carload after carload of hungry motorists were turned away near midday Tuesday after a grease fire broke out about 10:15 a.m. at the Burger King at 1319 Highway 141 in Perry and forced the temporary closure of the popular fast...
"Dallas County dearly needs a new jail and sheriff's office. Everyone agrees on that point."
I wrote that sentence in August 2015, which was the last time Dallas County voters faced a special election on a new sheriff's station and...
The city's annual Spring Clean-Up started Monday morning amid sprinkling rain and cloudy skies as Day-Glo-clad Perry Public Works Department crews collected disposed items along Perry's residential streets.
The Spring Clean-Up collection routes will follow this schedule:
Crews will collect items...
The United Methodist Church in Perry opened its spring garage sale and bake sale Friday from noon to 6 p.m., and the sales floor was quickly mobbed by bargain hunters in search of good deals.
The sale sale continued in...
A Des Moines woman faces charges in the Friday morning armed robbery of the Medicap Pharmacy in Dallas Center.
According to the Dallas County Sheriff's office, Stacey Nichole Oliver, 32, of Des Moines has been charged with first-degree robbery, two...
Charges are pending Friday morning after a woman with a gun robbed the Medicap Pharmacy in Dallas Center about 7 a.m. and fled westward in a car on Iowa Highway 44.
The suspect abandoned the vehicle in the 25200 block...
A controlled burn exceeded its control about 6 p.m. Thursday and quickly destroyed a nearby grain storage structure.
The grain storage stood in the 12700 block of I Avenue west of Perry on land belonging to Morey J. Hill, according...
Imagine Perry with streets that collect and store solar energy, lined by lamps whose color you can control. Imagine Perry residents coming together for community potlucks, dining on foods grown in their own community gardens and allotments.
Imagine a public...
The Dallas County Hospital Foundation, in partnership with the Food Bank of Iowa and the Hunger-Free Dallas County initiative, hosted its spring mobile food pantry Wednesday from 4–6 p.m. in the hospital’s north parking lot, and the day's cooler...