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Commentary: Your tax dollars for their private school? More and more states are saying yes

DES MOINES, Iowa — If you’re attuned to the culture wars, you know that parental rights and anti-wokeness in education are powerful political messages now. The supposed presence of critical race theory in middle school, allowing trans kids to use bathrooms that match their gender identity, books that “groom” kids…

Los Angeles Times

Ex-Chicago gang member says Iowa school shooting won’t deter him

William Holmes, founder of an alternative studies program for at-risk youth, was hurt in a shooting Jan. 23 at a Des Moines school. Two students were killed.

Chicago Sun-Times

Program's head says Iowa school shooting won't deter him

The founder of an educational program for at-risk youth in Des Moines says he will remain “all in on helping kids that are not reachable in so many peoples’ eyes” after he was wounded in last month’s shooting that killed two students

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Funeral parlour finds woman in body bag declared dead still alive and breathing

A 66-year-old woman was found alive and breathing at a funeral parlour after being sent in a body bag from a care home in Des Moines, Iowa, where she was declared dead

Daily Mirror

Police charge 2nd teen in Iowa school shooting that killed 2

Authorities in Iowa have charged a second teenager with murder in the shooting deaths of two students at a Des Moines educational program

The Independent UK

Police chief calls Iowa school shooting 'sad and pointless'

The Des Moines police chief says a shooting at a educational program that left two students dead and the organization’s founder injured should be understood as “tragic, sad and pointless.”

The Independent UK

Program founder wounded in Des Moines school shooting is Chicago native who left gang

William Holmes, founder of an alternative studies program for at-risk youth, joined a gang at 13, turned his life around and dedicated himself to help young people in need.

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Police: Shooting that killed 2 at youth program was targeted

Police say that the killing of two students at an alternative education program for at-risk youth was a targeted shooting and that one man has been charged

The Independent UK

Two Dead in Another US Shooting, this Time in Iowa

Two people died and a third was seriously wounded Monday in a shooting at a youth outreach center in Des Moines, Iowa, police said. Police responded to a report of a shooting at Starts Right Here, which runs a program for at-risk youths, and found three people wounded, two of…

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Police say 2 students were killed and 1 man hurt in a Des Moines shooting

Police said Monday that one man had been charged and two other people remained in custody in a targeted shooting at an alternative educational program designed to keep at-risk youth away from trouble.

WEKU

Des Moines school shooting - live: Three suspects arrested in mass shooting as victim identified

Three suspects are in custody according to police

The Independent UK

2 students killed, employee wounded in Iowa school shooting: ‘It was not random’

Two students were killed Monday and an employee was in serious condition after a shooting at a charter school in Des Moines, Iowa.

Tribune News Service

Two students dead and teacher injured in Des Moines shooting, suspect in custody

Preston Walls, 18, has been arrested in connection with the shooting

The Independent UK

Des Moines school shooting – live: Teen charged with murder as rapper who founded school identified as victim

Police have described the shooting as a ‘targeted attack’

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The Independent UK

Police: 2 students dead, teacher hurt in Des Moines shooting

Police say two students were killed and a teacher was seriously injured in a shooting at a Des Moines school on the edge of the city’s downtown

The Independent UK

Two students dead and teacher injured in Des Moines shooting with ‘multiple suspects’ in custody

‘Multiple suspects’ in custody following deadly violence in Des Moines, Iowa

Tribune News Service

DOJ settles claim by Washington state ‘Dreamer’ detained by immigration despite protected status

SEATTLE — The Department of Justice has settled a claim filed by a Des Moines, Washington, man who was arrested and detained by immigration agents in 2017 despite his protected status as a recipient of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals status.

The Independent UK

Owner charged with animal neglect for abandoning dog at Iowa airport says he ‘knew someone would take her’

Bigsen Charles tied up his dog named Stella outside the Des Moines airport after being told he needed a kennel to get on his flight

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Brickbat: Park Place

City officials in Des Moines have agreed to pay $125,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by a man who was detained for filming police officers who were illegally parked. Police said Daniel Robbins was behaving suspiciously. They did not arrest him, but they did seize his phone and camera and…

The Independent UK

Iowa teen who killed rapist being held in jail after escape

An 18-year-old sex trafficking victim who killed her rapist was being held in an Iowa jail and could face a prison term after she walked away from a Des Moines women’s shelter where she was serving probation for a manslaughter conviction

WEKU

An Iowa teen convicted of killing her rapist escapes from a probation center

Pieper Lewis, who was a 15-year-old sex trafficking victim at the time she stabbed her abuser, could face 20 years in prison if her sentence is reimposed.

Tribune News Service

Bon Iver, Zach Bryan to headline Upper Midwest's hippest music fest in (checks notes) Iowa

With Rock the Garden canceled, the Basilica Block Party still on hold and all of Minnesota's other big music fests involving bro country or dinosaur rock, 2023 might be the year many Twin Cities music fans warm up to the hottest music festival in the Upper Midwest: Hinterland near Des…

Tribune News Service

Best places to live when you can work from anywhere

In 2022, life began to feel somewhat “normal” again: Audiences are flocking to live shows, concerts and sporting events; airports bustle with travelers; kids are attending school. But one piece of your routine might still look quite different than the pre-pandemic era: Where you’re working.

The Independent UK

10 teens, 6 guns, 42 bullets complicate Iowa murder trials

From the start, the case stemming from a drive-by shooting death of a 15-year-old boy near a Des Moines high school has been among the most complex prosecutions ever in Iowa’s capital city, involving 10 teenagers, six guns and at least 42 fired bullets

The Independent UK

Iowa reporter announces on newscast that she is transgender

A Des Moines television reporter announced this week on a newscast that she will publicly identify as a transgender woman

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