Welcome to the first segment of a new weekly OMC column. Every Sunday, OMC will ask a question and post your responses the next week. This week we polled random folks about the controversial USS Des ...

A Milwaukee commission on Wednesday unanimously rejected a proposal to dock the USS Des Moines, a retired warship, along its lakefront. Should Racine pursue the ship for its own lakeshore? A group of ...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- The USS Des Moines, a Navy cruiser decommissioned in 1961, has been towed from the Philadelphia shipyard and will be scrapped. The 717-foot ship, which was ordered during World ...

The USS Iowa was the first of the Iowa-class battleships that were the mightiest in the U.S. fleet in World War II. It was decommissioned in the 1950s, then recommissioned in 1982 to help counter an ...

The Navy’s newest Virginia Class attack submarine will be named the USS Iowa, honoring a military custom of having American warships with ties to Iowa, its communities and its military heroes. Navy ...

World War II battleship USS Iowa is among 20 naval vessels nominated as the best ship museum in the country. The ship, a BB-61, was sponsored in 1942 by Indianola native Ilo Wallace, the wife of Iowa ...

ALL RIGHT, ETHAN, THANK YOU. AS WE GET CLOSER TO JULY, THAT MEANS WE’RE CLOSE TO JULY FOURTH. IT’S HAPPENING THIS THURSDAY. FIREWORKS ARE LEGAL HERE IN IOWA, BUT USING THEM IS ILLEGAL IN MOST CITIES.