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A 65-year-old Iowa man who won a $100,000 lottery prize after pleading guilty to molesting his granddaughter now faces new charges of sexual abuse.
Des Moines and other cities had high homicide totals in 2020, which saw the largest recorded yearly increase in on record in the U.S.
'I believe ... they're still alive': On 20th anniversary of Bradley sisters' disappearance, family keeps hope Grace Hauck and Eric Ferkenhoff, USA TODAY © Max Herman, For USA TODAY Sheila Bradley-Smith holds a balloon release on the 35th Street Pedestrian Bridge on Tuesday before a vigil for her nieces, Tionda and Diamond Bradley, who disappeared 20 years ago. CHICAGO — As they have for the past two decades, Tionda and Diamond Bradley's relatives gathered on Chicago's South Side on Tuesday to release balloons and pray for answers in the sisters' 2001 disappearance. Tiond...
Des Moines Register The man charged with first-degree murder in the slaying of Mollie Tibbetts testified Wednesday that he didn't kill Tibbetts. Instead, he pointed blame at two unknown masked men — one armed with a gun, another with a knife — who surprised him at his home on the Yarrabee Farms property in rural Poweshiek County the night Tibbetts disappeared. The men, according to Cristhian Bahena Rivera, forced him to get into his car July 18, 2018, and drive around near Brooklyn, Iowa, before spotting Tibbetts jogging toward town. Bahena Rivera said the men — one named "Jack" —...
Des Moines Register The man charged with first-degree murder in the slaying of Mollie Tibbetts testified Wednesday that he didn't kill Tibbetts. Instead, he pointed blame at two unknown masked men — one armed with a gun, another with a knife — who surprised him at his home on the Yarrabee Farms property in rural Poweshiek County the night Tibbetts disappeared. The men, according to Cristhian Bahena Rivera, forced him to get into his car July 18, 2018, and drive around near Brooklyn, Iowa, before spotting Tibbetts jogging toward town. Bahena Rivera said the men — one named "Jack" —...