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Three armed intruders broke into a home on West Des Moines' south side, stabbed a man and pistol-whipped a woman early Wednesday, police said. Read More

Trinity Episcopal has spent the entire season atop the Academy A rankings. Read More

Rep. Steve King claims the plan would lead to a "terrorist enclave" near Iowa. And Rep. Tom Latham has introduced legislation prohibiting the transfer of the detainees to Iowa, Illinois and nine other Midwestern states. Read More

The buzz is building for McSweeney's Issue 33 — or, as they're calling it, The San Francisco Panorama , a Sunday-edition-sized newspaper with reporting from William Vollmann and Nicholson Baker, comics from Chris Ware and Daniel Clowes, and a book review section to make us advertising-based life forms jealous: 100-plus pages, including new fiction from George Saunders and a report about romance-novel cover models. Read More

The cardiologist at the centre of investigations into the death of Michael Jackson is back at work. Read More

Council Vice Chair Bob Ferguson has become Chair of the King County Council following today's certification of the election making Dow Constantine King County's new Executive. Read More

Matthew King of King Information Technology Solutions is warning the public of a new phone scam offering bogus IT support that has already targeted several Tenterfield residents. Read More