It was just about this time a year ago when Carlos Puente-Morales and Susan Farrell graduated from the academy and became officers with the Des Moines Police Department. They were two members of a class of 18 selected …

What Napoleon said about his army, that it marched on its stomach, is equally true of the biggest school district in Iowa, and on Thursday, DMPS four-star General/Executive Chef Chad Taylor joined with his counterparts in large urban …

They’ve got the bullying prevention blues at McCombs Middle School – and that’s a good thing. October is National Bullying Prevention Month and Monday morning it began with a burst of the color blue at McCombs because October …

A week ago yesterday they were swept up in a whirlwind. That evening Julio Delgadillo and Elhondra Brazzle attended the premiere of RunDSM: The Doc at Fleur Cinema. They were among the student-poets featured in the film that chronicles …

For 115 years, Greenwood Elementary School has stood on 37th Street, and over those many years renovations and additions to the school led to a dozen different doors in and out of the building. For visitors, the “front door” …