Author: Anna Spoerre, Des Moines Register

The man who challenged his Iowa ex-wife to a trial by sword fight must also undergo a psychological evaluation.

Kansas man David Ostrom asked an Iowa court to give him 12 weeks’ notice to “source or forge” a katana and wakizashi for a duel.

An Iowa man convicted of murder was rushed from prison to a hospital where his heart was restarted five times. He claims he should be freed.

The legality of an 11-hour interview with the suspect is crucial to the murder case, legal experts agree, but they differ on merits of the arguments.

Tanner J. Miller, who was driving the lawnmower at the child’s home when he backed over the child, was charged with operating while intoxicated.

Nearly 10 months after college student Mollie Tibbetts was killed, friends and family honor her kindness on what would have been her 21st birthday.

More than half the kittens rescued by the Animal Rescue League of Iowa were younger than 5 months old. Some needed medical care.

A Sioux City woman won$1 million after she played Mega Millions for the first time with numbers she wrote down years ago, Iowa Lottery announced.

A 33-year-old University of Iowa student was found dead Friday after a days-long search of Canyonlands National Park in Utah.