Update from NBC Des Moines Affiliate WHO: The Webster County Sheriff's Office says a man in a pickup abducted two girls, a 15-year-old and a 12-year-old and took them to a hog farm at I Avenue near Dayton. The younger of the two girls got away and found a neighbor to call for help.Full story
(Reuters) - Farms in two of the nation's leading pork producing states have tested positive for the potentially fatal porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV), U.S. pork industry veterinarian official said Monday. Full story
Clark Kelly plans to spend a lot of time on the links this spring. The Illinois farmer is plowing the Hend-Co-Hills Golf Course near tiny Biggsville into a cornfield. Full story
Authorities are telling people from Iowa to Oklahoma to prepare for powerful storms. NBC's Janet Shamlian reports.
The small Iowa town Postville looks back at largest immigration raid in U.S. history. KWWL's Becca Habegger reports.
The Daily Rundown’s Chuck Todd talks about the continuing investigation by House Republicans into the attack.
Stylist to the stars Louis Licari and TODAY contributor Jill Martin make over two deserving women they found on the plaza this morning, including a mother from Iowa who hasn’t changed her look in more than 24 years.
Back in the 1990s, Ottumwa, Iowa, was in a population decline when a meat processing plant began recruiting Latino workers. Now the city is 11 percent Latino, reflecting an overall demographic shift across the U.S. NBC’s Natalie Morales reports.
A ear of corn from last year's harvest lies in a wet field on a farm, Tuesday, May 7, 2013, near Carlisle, Iowa. The USDA's weekly crop progress report showed that just 12 percent of the nation's cornfields have been sown, about one-fourth of the typical pace over the past five years. The numbers ha
This is the former school near Atalissa, Iowa, that housed mentally disabled men while they worked at West Liberty Foods until Iowa closed down the facility in 2009. The men received a $240 million award that has been slashed to $1.6 million because of a federal cap.
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., speaks at the Iowa GOP Lincoln Dinner event, Friday, May 10, 2013, at the Hotel at Kirkwood Center, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
