Anita Bryant, a former Miss Oklahoma and popular singer who became known over the second half of her life for her outspoken ...

Here are the Des Moines Register's male Athlete of the Week candidates from the Des Moines metro area for the week of Jan. 12 ...

Fourmile Mountain Bike Park joins two other mountain biking-specific parks that recently opened in Iowa–the Mason City ...

Anita Bryant Dry, known popularly Anita Bryant — a singer and crusader against the progress of gay rights — has died at the ...

The Last American Gay Bar, which tells the story of Des Moines’ famous Blazing Saddle bar, came out on OUTtv this summer. A three-part documentary about an Iowa cold case, Taken Together ...

That initiative was defeated. At a Des Moines, Iowa, news conference, gay rights activist Tom Higgins slammed a pie into her face for the benefit of television cameras, The Oklahoman reported.

In October 1977, she famously received a banana cream pie to the face from gay activist Tom Higgins at a promotional stop in Des Moines, Iowa. Bryant quipped at the time, “at least it’s a ...

The incident happened during a televised appearance in Iowa, in which writer and gay rights activist Thom L. Higgins hit her in the face with a pie. (Original Caption) Des Moines: Entertainer ...

Homophobic Christian activist Anita Bryant died of cancer on December 16 at the age of 84 in Edmonton, Oklahoma. Her anti-gay activism ended her singing career, bankrupted her, and famously compelled ...

The large majority — 17 — were committed in Des Moines, which is three more than last year in Iowa's capital city but still short of 2022's high of 23 slayings. An average of 18 homicides were ...

RIGHT NO Update 8:40 a.m.: I-235 eastbound is reopened to traffic at 63rd Street. The Iowa DOT is still reporting a slight delay in travel. Update 8:00 a.m. : Iowa Department of Transportation is ...