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By Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — A Santa Maria, Calif., police officer suspected of having a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old girl was shot and killed by a
COLLEGE STATION, Texas – Sydney Carter made a pair of free throws with 2.4 seconds left as No. 14 Texas A&M escaped with a 66-64 win over Iowa State Sunday in Reed
The Hawk Eye, Burlington, Iowa – Second-guessing gadflies, prying media and an old-fashioned Midwestern desire to be efficient and civil can tempt government officials to undermine open meetings and open records laws.
By Randy Lewis, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — Pioneering R&B singer Etta James was saluted at her funeral service Saturday by fellow musicians, including Stevie Wonder and Christina Aguilera, and eulogized
By Lee Romney, Los Angeles Times – OAKLAND, Calif. — Police faced off Saturday afternoon with hundreds of Occupy movement protesters, arresting more than a hundred of them during a much-anticipated demonstration focused
By Kim Geiger, Tribune Washington Bureau – Former Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain endorsed Newt Gingrich for president Saturday night in what was billed as a surprise appearance by the retired pizza chain
By Steven Thomma, Lesley Clark and David Lightman, McClatchy Newspapers – ORLANDO, Fla. — Mitt Romney opened a commanding lead in Florida Sunday, driving his rivals to start shifting their sights to other
By Kacie Krominga – The fifth annual Parks & Rec. Kids’ Karnival was held Saturday afternoon at Southbridge Mall. Businesses and organizations gathered to give children and their families activities to do
by Matt Marquardt – MASON CITY – The Mason City Fire Department needs a new 105 foot fire engine. The cost would be roughly $1 million. The Mason City Council held a
IOWA FALLS, Iowa – It took two overtimes, but the NIACC men’s basketball team ended a three game slide with a 108-103 win over Ellsworth Community College on Saturday afternoon. NIACC (12-10 overall,
by Jody Spear – MASON CITY – Saturday afternoon was a sunny, temperature friendly day for the “Cardboard Classic” sledding competition at the East Park Sledding Hill in Mason City. The Relay
MANKATO, Minn. – NIACC track and field’s Lance Maxwell (So., Racine, WI) earned a berth to the NJCAA Indoor National Championships in the men’s shot put, while Anna Buenneke (So., Hazelton, IA)
EAST ST. LOUIS – Christopher H. McCoy, 48, of Granite City, Illinois, was sentenced in federal district court in East St. Louis on January 27, 2012, to a total of 327 months’
PHILADELPHIA — A Ukrainian hockey coach was charged Thursday with traveling for the purpose of engaging in illicit sexual conduct and transporting a person to engage in criminal sexual activity. The case
Additional Defendants Sentenced in Broward and Palm Beach Counties in Operation Oxy Alley Jan 20 – Miami – Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Miami Field Division;
RURAL CERRO GORDO COUNTY – Shortly after 11:30 Friday night, January 27, 2012, a member of the Cerro Gordo County Sheriff’s Department attempted to make a traffic contact north of Rock Falls
by Matt Marquardt – An item in Mason City’s 2013 budget piqued my interest and I decided to ask City Hall for some information about it. I asked about a $60,000 remodeling plan
By Marco Mierke WASHINGTON — The United States is “very concerned” about the condition of a Pakistani doctor who provided information that helped them track down al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, U.S.
By Richard Verrier, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — The long-sought marriage of Hollywood’s two actors unions cleared another hurdle Saturday when the board of American Federation of Television and Radio Artists
By Brent Snavely, Detroit Free Press – DETROIT — Workers at a General Motors assembly plant in Kansas have voted in favor of authorizing a strike. UAW Local 31 President George Ruiz said
By Peter Mayer ROME — The wasting of a “precious hour” by the captain of the Costa Concordia jeopardized the timely evacuation of all those aboard the stricken cruise liner, a top
By Ali Safi, McClatchy Newspapers – KABUL, Afghanistan — A suicide car bomber killed four Afghan civilians and wounded dozens Thursday in the southern province of Helmand, local officials said. The attack, which
By Jeremy C. Owens, San Jose Mercury News – SAN JOSE, Calif. — Apple Inc.’s record 37 million iPhones sold in the last quarter of 2011 made it the world’s leading smartphone vendor
By Albert Otti DAVOS, Switzerland — Software billionaire Bill Gates announced Thursday that his foundation would give $750 million to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. The pledge, made
By Diana Renee RIO DE JANEIRO — Rescue workers in Rio de Janeiro on Thursday recovered the bodies of three people from the rubble of three collapsed buildings, with at least 16
By Matt Stevens, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — Nearly 14 percent of orange juice imported to the U.S. since early this month has been seized by the Food and Drug Administration
By Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times – CAIRO — The son of a U.S. Cabinet official and other Americans working for a democracy rights group have been stopped from leaving Cairo as part
By Alejandro Lazo, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — Struggling homeowners are set to get more help from the federal government as the Obama administration extends its key foreclosure prevention plan for
By Michael Muskal, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — Gang homicides are less likely to be drug-related than many people think — and more likely to be a result of factors such as
By Michael Muskal, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — New guidelines to manage some 193 million acres of national forest lands will focus on protecting watersheds and wildlife and will require a
By Jim Puzzanghera, Los Angeles Times – WASHINGTON — Rep. Barney Frank, the first member of Congress to announce voluntarily he was gay, will marry his partner in a same-sex ceremony in Massachusetts,
By Jim Souhan, Star Tribune (Minneapolis) – MINNEAPOLIS — Sports fans savor anger. They twirl it around in a long-stemmed glass, searching for adjectives. Today, vocal Twins fans find their anger to be
By Jessica Guynn, Los Angeles Times – SAN FRANCISCO — Twitter has promoted itself as a beacon of free speech, and that image was burnished when revolutionaries used the social media service to
By Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — In recent months the name Mary Tyler Moore has been bandied about with unexpected regularity bordering on reckless abandon. This is not just
By Kent Youngblood, Star Tribune (Minneapolis) – MINNEAPOLIS — Saturday’s practice was over, and Timberwolves center Nikola Pekovic was about to go review film of Friday’s victory over San Antonio with an assistant
By Michael Hunt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel – Barry Alvarez should be ashamed of his comments regarding the drinking party involving underage Wisconsin students just before the Rose Bowl. Then he should be reprimanded
By Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times – INDIANAPOLIS—For all the hype, grandeur and corporate extravagance of the Super Bowl, this year’s version of the nation’s most-watched sports event boils down to two little
American Kennel Club – Whether around the block or across the country, moving can cause stress for the entire family and the American Kennel Club wants to remind pet owners that dogs
Rex L. Troute, The Hawk Eye, Burlington, Iowa – FORT MADISON – The ribbon-cutting Friday was a celebration of progress. Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad, Lt. Gov. Kim Reynolds, local dignitaries and Pinnacle Foods
By Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel – Dear Chicago, You may not recognize the Heat on Sunday from when you last cursed them. They’ve been stripped down, left naked, exposed to the elements and