As part of his sentence, Ertz must register as a sex offender and be monitored for the rest of his life by the Department of ...

An Altoona man was sentenced to prison on Friday for committing sexual acts on children. According to the Polk County Attorney’s Office, 71-year-old Michael Charles ...

In total, 71-year-old Michael Charles Ertz, of Altoona, pleaded guilty to 7 charges of sexual abuse against children in Polk ...

One man has been arrested after lighting multiple Molotov cocktails and setting things on fire in Altoona Saturday morning at ...

A Clifton Heights man is behind bars in Blair County after allegedly throwing a Molotov cocktail at a railcar doused in ...

AFTER THAT MEETING. ALTOONA MAN FACES CHARGES IN TWO SEPARATE CASES AFTER POLICE SAY HE SEXUALLY ABUSED AT LEAST TWO CHILDREN. SEVEN YEAR-OLD MICHAEL ERTZ WAS ARRESTED IN WEST DES MOINES ON THURSDAY.

"We were so careful with him," Libby Shur said of her son, who wandered into an Altoona pond and drowned. It's a common trait ...

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“hand-in-glove with Albuquerque Police Department.” “There was, again, many calls where it was unnecessary for them [APD] to be there, and it really undermined the purpose of what the ...

The department reports the following incidents and accidents as taking place Wednesday, April 23. At 12:58 a.m., Demitria LaShelle Dupree, 35, of Keokuk, turned herself in at the Keokuk Police ...

Credit: Photo by Wiley Price I St. Louis American Mayor Cara Spencer has abandoned pursuit of a lawsuit aimed at blocking the state takeover of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department ...