A mother’s plot to blame a stranger for killing her sons went awry when one of the boys survived and told police how Michelle Kehoe cut his throat, then moved on to his younger brother, an Iowa prosecutor said Thursday.

It’s the kind of story you expect to hear out of the depths of the Amazon or on the slopes of Mount Everest. Instead, it’s a story of survival begins and ends right here in Eastern Iowa.

A man suspected of fatally shooting an Iowa football coach Wednesday was released from a hospital the day before, without the knowledge of police, who had asked to be notified. Mark Becker, who faces first-degree murder charges, was a former student and a former football player.

A 15-year-old girl with a 500-texts-a-day texting habit thumbed her way to the $50,000 grand prize at the L.G. National Texting Championship in New York.

Jesse Fierstine of Manchester Iowa faces charges accusing him of cutting a pacemaker out of his father’s chest.

Tampa, FL-The local boy throws 3 pics and fumbles once in Gamecocks 31-10 loss to Iowa. He was not a happy man in this postgame wrapup.

CHARLESTON, S.C. – Bulldog Basketball head coach Ed Conroy and assistant coach Andy Fox will feel right at home on Thursday, Nov. 20 when the Bulldogs host Iowa at 7:05 p.m. in McAlister Field House. Both Conroy and Fox are natives of Davenport, Iowa, where they both attended Assumption High School. Iowa is the first of two Big Ten teams that the Bulldogs will face this season.