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James Q. Lynch, CR GAZETTE – Be bold, Gov. Terry Branstad urged state legislators who, he said, “are watering down our aggressive education reform.” “It’s not fair to our kids to be
By Michael Muskal, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — Ohio school shooting suspect T.J. Lane randomly chose the targets of his shooting rampage at a suburban high school, fired 10 shots from a
By Steven Thomma, McClatchy Newspapers – WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney won the Arizona primary Tuesday, locking up an easy victory while fighting to win his native state of Michigan against a strong challenge
By Walter Hamilton, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — A Wall Street rally that few expected has carried the Dow Jones index above 13,000 for the first time in nearly four years,
A trio of University of Northern Iowa men’s basketball players were honored today by the Missouri Valley Conference for their performance this season. Freshman forward Seth Tuttle has been named the MVC
MASON CITY – The “Journey for Justice” came through Mason City Tuesday to show support for local locked out union employees. The “Journey for Justice” is a group of BCTGM (Bakery, Confectionery,
The Hancock County Sheriff’s office said today that a LuVerne, Iowa man was charged with bestiality after an investigation into an incident at a rural Britt residence. Steven Michael Schindler, 49, of
By Robin Abcarian, Los Angeles Times – SAN TAN VALLEY, Ariz. — As he walked into the cafeteria of Walker Butte Elementary School to help recruit local citizens as law enforcement volunteers, the
By Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times – BEIJING — Chinese state media reported that 12 people were killed in rioting Tuesday in the outskirts of Kashgar, the westernmost city in the country and
By Kathleen Hennessey, Tribune Washington Bureau – WASHINGTON — All eyes were on Michigan Tuesday — including President Barack Obama’s. As his potential GOP rivals scurried for support on primary day, Obama tried
WILL APPEAR ON BALLOT OF NEW REPUBLICAN-LEANING 3RD DISTRICT ACCORDING TO REGISTRATION NUMBERS DES MOINES, IA – Demonstrating broad grassroots organizational strength, Tom Latham was the first federal candidate in the State of Iowa to
By Don Lee, Tribune Washington Bureau – WASHINGTON — The recent acceleration in hiring may have brightened consumers’ spirits and the recovery’s outlook, but professional forecasters still see just moderate growth ahead for
By Bill Dwyre, Los Angeles Times – Baseball has given us another “Alice in Wonderland” moment. Ryan Braun’s drug-testing case just gets curiouser and curiouser. In summary, for those of you who keep
The Iowa Senate unanimously agreed today to change some unsavory terminology in its code. References to mental retardation as “retarded” in Iowa’s law would be replaced with “intellectual disability.” The Iowa House
ORLANDO, FL—United States Attorney Robert E. O’Neill announces the unsealing of a fifteen-count indictment charging Allen Gregory Schleicher, a/k/a Gregory Klonowski, (49, Ruskin) with ten counts of mail fraud, four counts of
The former mayor for the Village of Alorton pled guilty in U.S. District Court on February 24, 2012, to a four-count Information, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois,
George C. Ford, CR GAZETTE – As they have done for 61 years, the corn producers of Kossuth County in north central Iowa in 2011 harvested the most acres for grain and
by Matt Marquardt – MASON CITY – Cerro Gordo County Supervisors approved an urban renewal plan today that would allow the county to provide incentives to Red Power, Inc. to expand their
Early Bird Mixed 2/24/12 (4 person team) High team scratch game – Yoyo’s 767 High team scratch series – Budweiser 2,205 High Individual games 1. Seth Brannick 269 2. TC Lewis 245
A short while ago I wrote about too many permits being issued to carry guns. Then all the would-be cowboys came out of the barn to shoot me down. Now a man
By Angel Streeter, Sun Sentinel – LOXAHATCHEE, Fla — The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission has removed three big cats from the Florida home of Steve Sipek, an actor who once played
By Stefan Korshak – KIEV, Ukraine — A Ukrainian court sentenced a key political ally of jailed former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko to four years in prison Monday, dealing another blow to
By Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune – CHICAGO — Jennifer Hudson’s career was soaring in the fall of 2008, but the Oscar-winning actress and singer still found time to check in with her mother
By David Jackson and Gary Marx, Chicago Tribune – CHICAGO — Chicago murder suspect Giovanni Spiller’s 16 years on the run came to an abrupt end last week as he eased his car
By Deanese Williams-Harris, Jack McCarthy, Steven Schmadeke and Becky Schlikerman – Chicago Tribune – CHICAGO — A Naperville, Ill., man charged with a fatal hit-and-run accident from 2008 told police he now has
By Ruben Vives, Scott Gold and Andrew Blankstein, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — It began with an incident that seemed relatively harmless, even timeless: Two little girls. An argument over a
By Karen Sudol, The Record (Hackensack N.J.) – NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — Molly Wei and Dharun Ravi watched a video clip of his roommate Tyler Clementi kissing another man from a laptop screen
MASON CITY – Mason City Police were dispatched to Mercy Medical Center North Iowa at 5:43 a.m. Monday morning to take a report of a sexual assault. As a result of the
By Lesley Clark and Renee Schoof, McClatchy Newspapers – WASHINGTON — With President Barack Obama under fire from Republicans over the rising cost of gasoline, the White House moved quickly Monday to trumpet
By John Gallagher, Detroit Free Press – DETROIT — If you want a lens through which to view Tuesday’s primary election in the state, it could be this one: How real is Michigan’s
By Maeve Reston, Los Angeles Times – ROCKFORD, Mich. — In a campaign that has been consumed in recent days by discussion of social issues, Mitt Romney tried to turn voters’ attention back
By Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times – TEMPE, Ariz. — Like an orphan in the desert, Arizona feels lonely and abandoned this election day, as Republican presidential hopefuls scurry across snow-swept Michigan
By David Lightman, McClatchy Newspapers – DETROIT — Here’s what Michigan Republicans are hearing over and over as they prepare to vote Tuesday in the state’s crucial GOP presidential primary: Mitt Romney’s an
By Hannah Allam, McClatchy Newspapers – BEIRUT — Amid reports of fresh atrocities in the besieged city of Homs, the Syrian government said Monday that an overwhelming majority of voters — 89 percent
MASON CITY – Mason City Police were called to Beje Clark at 1:30 p.m. on Monday on a report of a resident obstructing the legal process. 37-year-old Chad Duane Dean of Mason
By Nancy A. Youssef, McClatchy Newspapers – WASHINGTON — As violence continued Monday in Afghanistan over the accidental burning of Qurans by U.S. troops last week, American military officials and analysts are beginning
The following post appears courtesy of the FBI. The founder of a $7 billion hedge fund is convicted of insider trading. A drug company pleads guilty to making and selling unsafe prescription
By Eryn Brown, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — The rich really are different from the rest of us, scientists have found — they are more likely to commit unethical acts because
By Shari Roan, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — Chemotherapy patients have long complained of the mental fog that tends to accompany treatment, but a new study suggests that certain combinations of
By Kim Geiger, Tribune Washington Bureau – WASHINGTON — Nearly two years after President Barack Obama signed his landmark health care package into law, three-quarters of registered voters believe the law’s requirement that