A 1985 study by public health professor Mary Koss found that one in four female college students reported having experienced rape or attempted rape. Tracy Sefl (’89, Iowa): How I remember high ...

A court in India has sentenced five men to death for the gang rape and murder of a teenager as well as the killing of her father and toddler-aged niece. The crime was committed in January 2021 ...

NEW DELHI — An Indian court on Saturday found a police volunteer guilty for the rape and murder of a trainee doctor, a crime that sparked countrywide protests and hospital strikes last year amid ...

A 20-year-old Pennsylvania woman admitted she fabricated kidnapping and rape allegations that kept an innocent man locked up for over a month — saying she targeted the stranger because he was ...

The seven people convicted of a string of rape and abuse charges were warned they may never be freed, Glasgow’s High Court heard on Monday. The two women and five men will all be monitored for life after being convicted of gang-raping a child and abusing ...

An Indian court awarded a life sentence on Monday to a police volunteer convicted of the rape and murder of a junior doctor at the hospital where she worked in the eastern city of Kolkata ...

The case against Jarod Anderson, 35, which got underway this week in Cedar Rapids, is the first in Iowa under a 2023 law that increases the penalties for human trafficking of a minor to a Class A felony — punishable by life in prison without the possibility of parole.

State Attorney Monique Worrell’s office is dropping charges against a Boone High School student accused of bringing a loaded gun to school.

Milwaukee chef Maria Graziano died in a car accident on Friday, according to Iowa State Patrol records. Graziano, 25, was Sous Chef at The Bridgewater Modern Grill since February 2024, said director of marketing for Benson's Restaurant Group Alison Graettinger. Benson's Restaurant Group oversees The Bridgewater Modern Grill.

A 19-year-old has been charged in connection to the shooting death of a Boone man. On the evening of January 18 the Ames Police Department responded to an apartment in the 200 block of South 5th Street in Boone.

For more than 40 years, generous Des Moines Register readers and the Embrace Iowa charitable program have been providing ... The owner and operator of Suntken Siding & Windows in Boone County was battling mounting utility bills while the work opportunities ...

Tensions are high for immigrants and advocates in Iowa amid rumors of ICE vehicles being spotted at various places across the state Thursday and President Donald Trump's declaration of illegal ...