30+ min ago (109+ words) Several central and north-central Iowa schools are already announcing delays and cancellations for Monday. AGWSR, Alden, BCLUW, Belmond-Klemme, South Hamilton, Webster City and other districts have announced 2-hour delays for Monday morning. Clarion-Goldfield-Dows will be closed on Monday. You can see our updated list of closings and delays here. Drake, Iowa State and UNI are among the colleges and universities to cancel classes Monday to provide students more time to return to campus from Thanksgiving break. Simpson, Central, Grinnell and Grand View University have also canceled Monday's classes. Iowa Central Community College and Des Moines Area Community College will also be closed on Monday....

1+ hour, 30+ min ago (247+ words) A Delta plane slid off the runway at Des Moines International Airport, with all passengers safely transported back to the terminal. Flights at the Des Moines International Airport were grounded for more than 12 hours after an airplane slid off a runway Saturday night. According to airport officials, nobody was injured in the incident when an arriving airplane apparently slid off the runway around 10 p.m. The Federal Aviation Administration says Endeavor Air Flight 5087 slid off the end of a runway while turning onto a taxiway at Des Moines International Airport in Iowa around 9:30 p.m. local time. Stairs were used to remove passengers from the flight. The FAA is investigating the incident, and NTSB says it is "aware of the event and collecting information but have not opened an investigation." By that point, Saturday's snowstorm had dumped about 10 inches of snow in Des Moines…...

10+ hour, 54+ min ago (287+ words) Audi Crooks scored a career-high 47 points and No. 10 Iowa State pulled away in the fourth quarter to beat Indiana 106-95 for the Blue Heron Division Championship on Sunday. She made 19 of her 25 field goal attempts as she combined a feathery touch with spin moves and a step-back jumpers. The 6-foot-3 center outdueled Indiana's Shay Ciezki, who had 38 points. The Cyclones outscored Indiana 31-27 in the fourth quarter. Jada Williams backed Crooks' effort with 23 points while Addy Brown added 17 along with 10 rebounds. Iowa State (9-0) shot a blistering 64% from the field (39-of-61) while outscoring the Hoosiers 62-34 in the paint. Ciezki made 13-of-14 free throws and 12-of-21 shots before fouling out with 3:39 left. She had 13 points in a frenetic first quarter. Iowa State led 16-10 but that quickly evaporated and the teams tied at 24. The second quarter was much of the same. Indiana briefly led and…...

13+ hour, 12+ min ago (451+ words) For the first time in more than two decades, Iowa State toppled in-state wrestling rival Iowa on Sunday, snapping the Hawkeyes" 20-dual winning streak in the series with a 2014 win inside a packed Hilton Coliseum. A crowd of 12,292 " the 10th-largest in venue history " watched the sixth-ranked Cyclones win six of 10 bouts against No. 3 Iowa, securing their first Cy-Hawk dual victory since 2004. The win also extended ISU"s lead in the Iowa Corn Cy-Hawk Series to 112, with the Cyclone women"s basketball team set to host the Hawkeyes on Dec. 10 for a chance to clinch the yearly competition. Iowa State controlled much of the action on the mat, finishing with a 16-9 edge in takedowns. Related video above: Final Iowa high school wrestling state tournament at Veterans Memorial Auditorium Top-ranked heavyweight Yonger Bastida set the tone by defeating No. 6 Ben Kueter, 11-4, using…...

14+ hour, 19+ min ago (129+ words) Months after two boys were injured in a house fire in Louisville, body camera video shows the moments police saved one of the boys. Two Louisville Metro Police Department officers were called to the scene of a fire, where they were notified about a child trapped inside. Both officers rushed inside to look for the child. Eventually, a neighbor climbed through a bedroom window and was able to pass the child, who was unconscious, to the officers outside. The boy was rushed to the hospital, where he spent weeks recovering from the fire. After the tragic night, the family of the boys asked if they could meet the officers who rushed to help that night. Months later, the two officers reunited with the boys and shared a touching moment....

17+ hour, 44+ min ago (119+ words) A Delta plane slid off the runway at Des Moines International Airport, with all passengers safely transported back to the terminal. A Delta plane slid off the runway at Des Moines International Airport, with all passengers safely transported back to the terminal. All passengers are safe after a Delta plane slid off the runway at the Des Moines International Airport late Saturday evening. According to airport officials, passengers were bused back to the terminal. As of 10:30 p.m. the airport was waiting for clearance from the National Transportation Safety Board to move the aircraft. Several flights were canceled or delayed at the airport due to Saturday's snowstorm. Visit flydsm.com to check the status of your flight....

20+ hour ago (885+ words) A decades-old data set tracking the health of new moms and babies was disrupted by CDC layoffs last spring, and there are still unanswered questions about the program's future. A decades-old data set tracking the health of new moms and babies was disrupted by mass layoffs at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) last spring. Since then, the agency has taken some steps to get back on track, but there are still unanswered questions about future resources and data reliability, according to former employees, researchers and state public health officials. The CDC has overseen the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) for nearly 40 years. The population-based surveillance system tracks pregnancy experiences, from pre-birth to postpartum. The goal is to improve health outcomes at a time when the United States still faces serious challenges with maternal and infant mortality. "In…...

21+ hour, 8+ min ago (112+ words) Grand View and Wartburg had important football games Saturday, and even a big snowstorm wasn't going to stop them from taking the field. With more than a foot of snow falling in some parts of the state, games were certainly impacted by the conditions outside. Here's how it looked at Wartburg's game in Waverly against Wheaton College (Ill.). Wheaton defeated Wartburg 28-24. It wasn't just Wartburg battling the elements. Grand View, the defending national champions in their division, hosted the University of Saint Francis (Ind.) at Mediacom Stadium in Des Moines. The Vikings dominated 62-20 in the snow: Most of Iowa remains under a winter storm warning through Sunday morning....

1+ day, 1+ hour ago (845+ words) The U.S. military carried out a follow-up strike on a suspected drug vessel operating in the Caribbean on Sept. 2 after an initial attack did not kill everyone on board, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. That September strike was the first in what became a regular series of attacks on alleged drug boats. While the first strike appeared to disable the boat and cause deaths, the military assessed there were survivors, according to the sources. The second attack killed the remaining crew on board, bringing the total death toll to 11, and sunk the ship. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth had ordered the military prior to the operation to ensure the strike killed everyone on board, but it's not clear if he knew there were survivors prior to the second strike, one of the sources said. The strike and deaths were…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago (195+ words) Our winter storm could deliver some of the most snow ever recorded in November. Parts of Iowa could end up digging out from a double-digit snowfall this weekend. Big-time snowstorms aren't unprecedented, but central Iowa rarely gets 10 inches or more at one time before December. Since records began, Des Moines has only topped that mark once in November. Snowfall records in Des Moines date back to 1884. Snowfall records are kept in daily increments. Since most winter storms last longer than 24 hours, the total snowfall over two days is usually needed to capture the full amount from each event. That would be Jan. 8-9, 2024, when 11.2 inches accumulated at Des Moines International Airport. That storm followed another earlier in the week and was part of a rough couple of weeks of winter weather in Iowa. The metro area last topped 12 inches on Jan....