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Requests for permits-to-carry for firearms are flooding county sheriff’s offices across Iowa. Some places are seeing increases of 300 to 400 percent.…

There were 21 homicides in Des Moines in 2015. This is nearly double the number of homicides from 2014, which saw 11.The last time the city saw at least…

John and Katrina Vowell used their small savings to start Major Chords for Minors in Saginaw, Mich., because they were worried about the city's youth. Now they have 130 students and a long wait list.

Through powerful monologues, Anna Deavere Smith has tackled race riots, integration and health care. In Notes from the Field, she's using her characters to explore the school-to-prison pipeline.

The opposition in Venezuela overwhelmingly won parliamentary elections on Sunday. The victory brings an end to almost 17 years of socialist rule.

Fourteen people are dead and at least 17 wounded after at least two gunmen opened fire on a social services center in San Bernardino, Calif. The investigation into the shooting is ongoing.

Two suspects, a man and a woman, died in a gun battle with police in San Bernardino, Calif. Police say they executed a search warrant at a home in the nearby town of Redlands, Calif.

A previously unknown musician has produced a new rap song about violence in Mexico that has struck a chord with listeners.

Police and prosecutors work together — it's the nature of the legal system. That closeness can be problematic when it comes to investigating police misconduct. One idea is to bring in outsiders.

Israel's holocaust memorial and research center honors a U.S. soldier for the first time for his role in protecting Jewish prisoners of war in a German camp in World War II.