The steel poles support high-voltage transmission lines that are meant to harden MidAmerican's infrastructure against changing weather, spokesperson Geoff Greenwood said in an email. The company replaced wooden poles that previously held up the lines across I-35.

A West Des Moines man has been charged in connection to a crash that killed a pedestrian in a parking lot. On October 21 the Des Moines Police Department and Fire Department responded to a grocery store parking lot in the 2500 block of East Euclid Avenue on a report of

Charges have been filed against the driver who police say hit and killed a woman in a Hy-Vee parking lot last month.