The ex-wife of Michael Klunder, who kidnapped Kathlynn Shepard, asked the court for a permanent order to protect her and her family from Klunder about two months after he was released from prison, according to documents filed in 2011. Klunder, 42, of Stratford, a registered sex offender who had a criminal history of kidnapping a [...]

If a current law had existed in 1992, law enforcement may have been able to track the activities of a Dayton kidnapping suspect who had been previously convicted of kidnapping a woman and two 3-year old children. Offenders convicted of misdemeanors and felonies as of 2005 can be sentenced to a special parole which can [...]

Investigators and K9s found backpacks and a purse Tuesday in connection with the abduction of Kathlynn Shepard in Dayton, according to an Iowa Department of Safety news release. Read also: Suspect in Dayton abduction could have been monitored if current law existed in 1992 Investigators also obtained an image of Shepard from the day of [...]

Via KCCI.com: Authorities are asking for the public’s help to find a girl abducted Monday in northern Iowa. Kathlynn Shepard, 15, has been missing since 4 p.m. Monday. Dayton Police Chief Nicholas Dunbar said two girls were abducted from a bus stop Monday afternoon.  Authorities said the girls were taken to a rural agricultural facility [...]

A 13-year-old accused of making multiple bomb threats earlier this week at a Delaware County high school is charged with four felony counts and if convicted, could face up to 20 years in a  juvenile  detention facility. Jacob Ahlers of Greeley, is charged in juvenile court with two counts of threat of terrorism and two [...]

A teenage boy faces felony charges for allegedly telling officials there were multiple bombs at a Delaware County high school Tuesday morning. The Delaware County Communications Center received a 911 call from a male subject, later identified as 13-year-old Jacob Ahlers, at 6:12 a.m. and 6: 30 a.m. Tuesday, advising of a bomb threat at [...]

The former Benton County Conservation Department director pleaded guilty last week to charges involving fuel purchases for his personal use on the county’s credit card. Gerald Heber of Walford, pleaded guilty to second-degree theft and felonious misconduct in office May 2, according to court records. He faces up to 10 years in prison and and [...]

Gary Hinzman, who became the city’s police chief at age 37, is winding up a 24-year-run this month in his second career — as director of the 6th Judicial District Department of Correctional Services. In a break from taking photos off his office walls this week, the 65-year-old Hinzman said he was leaving, in part, [...]

Consuelo Vega Nava looks down at her shifting feet, saying it was difficult to go back to that time in 2008 when she made the decision to tell immigration authorities that she didn’t have any children. The only reason she denied having three children is because she feared immigration would deport them, along with her, [...]

A former North Fayette teacher and girls’ basketball coach was arrested Thursday and accused of having a sexual relationship with a student, officials said. After a month-long investigation, James M. Hanson, 39, of West Union, was arrested on suspicion of sexual exploitation by a school employee by Fayette County Sheriff’s deputies and members of the [...]