Massive Search for Two Missing Iowa Girls
ABC News(NEW YORK) — Police and hundreds of volunteers are dragging a lake and fanning out across the Evansdale, Iowa, area, searching for two Iowa girls who haven’t been seen for two days.Elizabeth Collins, 8, and her cousin, Lyric Cook, 10, we…
RNC Chair Heads to Iowa to Push Message Where Obama’s Campaigning
Alex Wong/Getty Images(CEDAR FALLS, Iowa) — President Obama is going to have some company Tuesday in Iowa, and it’s not a welcome guest. Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus is also heading to Cedar Falls to push his messa…
Rick Santorum Heads to Iowa to Thank Supporters
PAUL J. RICHARDS/AFP/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — Iowa brought Rick Santorum glory — belated glory, but glory nonetheless — when he was finally proclaimed the winner of January’s Iowa caucuses. Now, he’s heading back to thank those w…
Rick Santorum Heads Back to Iowa on ‘Thank You’ Tour
PAUL J. RICHARDS/AFP/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — Rick Santorum is heading back to Iowa, but it’s not to campaign for presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney. Instead, Santorum is traveling there to thank Hawkeye State voters for his belated caucus vict…
Biden: Economy a ‘Depression for Millions and Millions of Americans’
Joe Raedle/Getty Images(DUBUQUE, Iowa) — Vice President Joe Biden Wednesday offered a blunt assessment of the plight of the unemployed, telling supporters at a campaign rally in Iowa that the economy remains “a depression for millions and millio…
Santorum Heads Back to Iowa to Say ‘Thank You’
PAUL J. RICHARDS/AFP/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — Rick Santorum, the belated winner of this year’s Iowa caucuses, will be traveling back to Iowa next month to thank the voters who vaulted him to the top of the GOP primaries.Santorum will host two …
Obama TV Ads in Ohio, Iowa, Virginia Label Romney ‘Outsourcer-in-Chief’
Joe Raedle/Getty Images(BOSTON) — Continuing to capitalize on a Washington Post report on Mitt Romney’s ties to outsourcing, the Obama campaign is launching state-specific TV ads in Ohio, Iowa and Virginia on Tuesday that accuse the presumptive …
Romney Tailors ‘First 100 Days’ Ads to Swing States
Darren McCollester/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — Mitt Romney’s campaign released four ads Friday morning specifically tailored to the battleground states of Iowa, Ohio, North Carolina and Virginia.The 30-second ads, each titled, “100 Days&rdq…
Iowa Quaker Oats Workers Get $241 Million Powerball Jackpot
William Thomas Cain/Getty Images(DES MOINES, Iowa) — Twenty happy workers stepped off a chartered bus in Des Moines Wednesday to claim their $241 million Powerball jackpot. The new millionaires, who call themselves the “Shipping 20 Trust,” work togeth…
Democrats Hit Mitt Romney for Comment on Teachers, First Responders
JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Amid swirling criticism from Republicans over President Obama’s characterization of the private sector as doing “fine,” Democrats are seizing on Mitt Romney’s suggestion that the country…
Iowa Man Trapped by Tree Rescued Just in Time
Jupiterimages/Thinkstock(LUCAS, Iowa) — An Iowa man is expected to make a full recovery after a giant pine tree fell on him in an isolated part of a forest.David Blair, a lumberjack, was trimming trees near Lucas, Iowa, in Stephens State Forest when a…
Mammoth Bones Discovered in Iowa Family’s Backyard
WOI/ABC News(DES MOINES, Iowa) — An excavation is underway thanks to bones of a prehistoric mammoth discovered in a Oskaloosa, Iowa family’s backyard.According to ABC’s affiliate ABC5-WOI in Des Moines, the bones were discovered in July 20…
President Obama Accuses Mitt Romney of ‘Cow-Pie Distortion’ on Debt, Deficits
JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/GettyImages(DES MOINES, Iowa) — On his first visit back to the Iowa state fairgrounds since the 2008 campaign, President Obama Thursday night used a grassroots rally to launch sharp new attacks against rival Mitt Romney over the debt a…
President Obama Touts Clean Energy Agenda in Iowa
JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images(NEWTON, Iowa) — Visiting the critical battleground state of Iowa Thursday, President Obama touted his election-year energy agenda and urged Republican lawmakers to put politics aside and back his proposals to boost the eco…
Man with Zebra, Parrot in Front Seat Charged with DUI
iStockphoto/Thinkstock(DUBUQUE, Iowa) — Police in Dubuque, Iowa, responded to an unusual call this week: reports of a zebra and a parrot in the front seat of a truck parked outside a bar. The striped animal and his fine feathered friend were there to …
An Iowa Endorsement for Romney, 5 Months After Caucus
Office of Rep. Steve King(WASHINGTON) — Iowa Republican Rep. Steve King told reporters Mitt Romney will campaign in his state Tuesday, giving a “major policy speech on out-of-control spending and debt” at Drake University in Des Moines. He…
Iowa Double Murder: Man Confesses Three Decades Later
Black Hawk County Sheriff’s Office(WATERLOO, Iowa) — The grisly murder and robbery of an elderly couple in Waterloo, Iowa, stunned the community three decades ago. But the case remained unsolved until a 66-year-old man walked into a police stati…
Iowa Student Presents Bouncer’s Stolen ID
Johnson County Sheriff’s Department(IOWA CITY, Iowa) — A 19-year-old University of Iowa student reportedly picked the wrong person to fool with a fake ID.Steven Fiorella waited in line outside of The Union Bar in Iowa City as a bouncer checked drivers…
First Lady Says Election Could Hinge on ‘Few Thousand Folks’
SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images(DES MOINES, Iowa) — Seeking to build a sense of urgency for November, first lady Michelle Obama told a group of 400 campaign supporters in Iowa Tuesday that the election could come down to only a “few thousand folks.&r…
Iowa GOP Examines What Went Wrong with Caucuses
Hemera/Thinkstock(DES MOINES, Iowa) — It was one of the logistical lowlights of the 2012 primary.After a late night of vote counting, the Iowa GOP announced Mitt Romney as the caucuses’ tentative winner, having staved off Rick Santorum by a mere…