Cathy Ames, the villain of John Steinbeck’s novel “East of Eden,” is not what E. M. Forster, or anyone else, would call a round character, the kind who grows and changes over the course of a story.

An Ames man is facing an attempted murder charge after police say he intentionally ran a motorcyclist over with his car last year. Robert Clark Geddes, 30, was booked Tuesday into the Story County ...

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Local data center conversations will continue as the City of Ames seeks to fill its new study committee. Data centers have been a hot topic among Ames residents in recent months since a 100,000-square ...

Two men were injured Monday night in a shooting in Ames. The Ames Police Department said the shooting was reported at 10:43 p.m. Monday in the 200 block of Franklin Avenue. Responding officers found ...

A new 56‑page civics and citizenship handbook created by the League of Women Voters of Ames and Story County aims to give Iowa students — and fellow Iowans — a clearer understanding of how government ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — CIA turncoat Aldrich Ames, who betrayed Western intelligence assets to the Soviet Union and Russia in one of the most damaging intelligence breaches in U.S. history, has died in a ...

Washington — Aldrich Ames, a counterintelligence officer for the CIA who spied for the Soviet Union and later Russia, has died, according to a Bureau of Prisons spokesperson. Ames, who was serving a ...

One of the most notorious spies in United States history, responsible for the arrest and eventual execution of numerous Soviet and Russian officials secretly working on behalf of the US intelligence ...