MASON CITY — Surrounding the smiling photograph of Gretchen Ann Crooks were things that spoke of life. Pots of ferns and roses, chrysanthemums and lilies, all fought against Friday’s overcast ...

A judge on Friday sentenced 17-year-old Noah Crooks to up to 50 years in prison for the March 2012 shooting death of his mother, 37-year-old Gretchen Crooks. He will go to prison once he turns 18 ...

Police continue to look for a possible motive in the shooting death of Gretchen Crooks, allegedly by her 13-year-old son Noah. Police responding to the Crooks home, in Osage, Iowa, on Saturday ...

Crooks, 14, is charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of his mother, Gretchen, 37, on March 24, 2012, at the family’s rural Osage home. About 7:30 p.m. that night, Noah called ...

Pearson remains in the juvenile detention system. Crooks is accused of murdering his mother, Gretchen, 37, on March 24 in the family’s rural Osage home. Gretchen Crooks died of gunshot wounds.

Prosecutors say Noah Crooks was 13 years old when he fired rifle round after rifle round into his mother, 37-year-old Gretchen Crooks, in their Osage home on March 24, 2012. He was convicted of ...

My life is down the drain now.' Noah's father, 41-year-old William Crooks, is said to be quite the gun advocate. Police found Gretchen Crooks, Noah's mother, laid out on the couch with her pajama ...