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MASON CITY – Mason City resident Chris Watts will be making an announcement Thursday regarding his plans on whether or not to run for a Cerro Gordo County Supervisor seat. Watts (pictured)
HAMPTON, IA – One person was killed Wednesday morning in a 2 car crash just east of Hampton. The incident took place at 8:45 a.m. 3 miles east of I-35 on Highway
By Peter H. Schuck and Ron Haskins, Los Angeles Times – The primary election campaign has intensified a justified concern about inequality in America: People at the top are rising much faster than
James Q. Lynch, The Gazette, Cedar Rapids, Iowa – DES MOLINES – The Iowa House began the long slog through floor debate on budget bills Feb. 28, approving budgets for the Judicial Branch
Rod Boshart, CR Gazette – DES MOINES — Gov. Terry Branstad gave his support Tuesday to University of Northern Iowa President Ben Allen’s recommendation to close Malcolm Price School. Meanwhile, supporters of
James Q. Lynch, The Gazette, Cedar Rapids, Iowa – A roundup of legislative and Capitol news items of interest for Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012: BLACK HISTORY CELEBRATION: Iowa legislators will host the state’s
Jeff Linder, CR Gazette – CLASS 4A QUARTERFINALS Iowa City West 55, Iowa City High 52 Waukee 49, Mason City 47 Cedar Rapids Xavier vs. Ankeny, 1:30 p.m. Ames vs. Southeast Polk,
George C. Ford, CR Gazette – CORALVILLE — Costco Wholesale, the world’s largest wholesale membership club, has set a June 29 opening date for its Coralville location in a former Amana refrigerator
Mike Hlas, The Gazette, Cedar Rapids, Iowa – Last month, Iowa State announced it had signed head football coach Paul Rhoads to a 10-year, $20 million extension. Like all big-time coaching deals, this
Rod Boshart, CR Gazette – DES MOINES — Agricultural interests on Tuesday said the Iowa Senate had given them a legal hook to help combat animal rights activists who aim to damage elements
James Q. Lynch, The Gazette, Cedar Rapids, Iowa – UPDATE: A walk-out by the Iowa House Democratic caucus this morning is unfortunate, Gov. Terry Branstad said, but he doesn’t plan to involve himself
By Randy Lewis, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — Davy Jones was a promising 18-year-old actor from England when he found himself among the guest performers on “The Ed Sullivan Show” on
By Frank Fitzpatrick, The Philadelphia Inquirer – PHILADELPHIA — With the 50th anniversary of Wilt Chamberlain’s 100-point game on March 2, 1962 almost here, that long-ago night in Hershey, Pa., has been dissected
By Ellen Gray, Philadelphia Daily News – When broadcast networks’ executives sleep, they probably dream of series like NBC’s “Awake,” a cop show with a premise unusual enough to generate buzz but not
By Rene Rodriguez, McClatchy Newspapers – “Project X” is an astounding, superlative movie about adolescence — a brutal, unapologetic comedy about the fantasy every high school kid carries around in his head about
By Ben Fritz and John Horn, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — Soon after Peter Berg signed on to direct a big-screen version of the board game Battleship, he was summoned to
By Roger Moore, McClatchy-Tribune News Service – DR. SEUSS’ THE LORAX Rating: PG for brief mild language What it’s about: An entrepreneur remembers the forest he chopped down and the environment he ruined
By John Timpane, Philadelphia Inquirer – As long as there have been bridges, trolls have hidden beneath them. Same for the Internet. As long as there have been message boards, discussion groups, and
By Steve Johnson, San Jose Mercury News – SAN JOSE, Calif. — Smartphone owners can surf the Web, pay bills, watch videos, enjoy music and send email. But while their gadgets have been
By Brier Dudley, The Seattle Times – SEATTLE — Step into Amazon.com’s gleaming new headquarters in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood, and you may wonder if the place is still under construction. The
By Don Lee, Tribune Washington Bureau – WASHINGTON — The nation’s economy grew faster in the final months of last year than initially estimated as consumer spending and business investments for things like
By Corilyn Shropshire, Chicago Tribune – CHICAGO — A new survey of mid-sized nonprofits with revenues ranging between $1 million and $5 million found that they lag in financial knowledge and cash reserves.
By Carol Rosenberg, McClatchy Newspapers – GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba — A U.S.-educated, one-time al-Qaida foot soldier stood at the war court Wednesday, and pleaded guilty to war crimes for joining the
By Kim Bell, St. Louis Post-Dispatch – HARRISBURG, Ill. — At least six people were killed and about 100 were injured after an apparent tornado early Wednesday ripped through the southern end of
By Jonathan S. Landay, McClatchy Newspapers – WASHINGTON — North Korea will suspend long-range missile launches, nuclear weapons tests and activities at its key nuclear site, including the enrichment of uranium, as part
MASON CITY – Cerro Gordo County monthly food facility inspection reports are listed below. Click the links to read the report for that establishment. 1/27/2012 A. H. HERMEL COMPANY (739 HIGHWAY 69 NORTH,
By Paul West, Maeve Reston and Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times – NOVI, Mich. — Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney won the Michigan and Arizona primaries on Tuesday, holding off conservative challenger Rick
By Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times – CAIRO — A senior al-Qaida leader wanted for the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Africa was arrested at the Cairo International Airport on Wednesday, after arriving
By Jerry Zgoda, Star Tribune (Minneapolis) – LOS ANGELES — Minnesota Timberwolves forward Derrick Williams returned to Los Angeles on Tuesday night and really looked at home for the first time during his
By Jim Utter, McClatchy Newspapers – DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Matt Kenseth has always been known as Mr. Consistency. Now we know that includes consistency in the face of chaos. Kenseth’s victory in
AMES, Iowa – Feb. 29, 2011 – The Iowa Department of Transportation (DOT) is advising central and west central Iowa motorists that sustained wind speeds of 30 to 40 mph and gusts
By Nancy A. Youssef, McClatchy Newspapers – WASHINGTON — Some cremated remains of people who were killed in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks were disposed of in a landfill, the Pentagon revealed Tuesday,
Trey Mewes, Austin Daily Herald, Minn. – A 57-year-old Austin, MN man was nearly defrauded after someone told him he won $8.5 million and a Mercedes Benz Friday. The man was told over
The Charles H. MacNider Art Museum’s 2012 Winter Film Series, Films in February, Movies in March, continues this Saturday, March 3 at 2:00 p.m. with Red Tail Reborn. Admission is FREE and
By Patrick Goldstein, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — The 84th Academy Awards really looked their age on Sunday night. The painfully cobwebby spectacle included a cringe-inducing blackface joke, a tribute to
By Carol Rosenberg, McClatchy Newspapers – GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba — The military unveiled a new $744,000 soccer field on Tuesday, a dusty enclosure with two-toned gravel and fences topped by barbed
By Kevin G. Hall, McClatchy Newspapers – WASHINGTON — U.S. banks ended 2011 on a roll, a government regulator reported Tuesday, with profits up sharply from a year earlier and over the entire
By Michael A. Memoli, Tribune Washington Bureau – WASHINGTON — Sen. Olympia J. Snowe of Maine, one of the Senate’s few remaining moderate Republicans, announced Tuesday that she would not seek a fourth
By Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times – Chalk up another win for the law of unintended consequences. When federal courts ruled in 2010 against restricting donations to political action committees, Republican strategists rejoiced.
Adriano Sotomayor, 54, of Margate, New Jersey, was captured today in Las Vegas, Nevada, by the FBI Fugitive Squad. He has been a fugitive since November 16, one day after he was