Cubs lose 7th straight game
By Phil Rogers, Chicago Tribune – HOUSTON — Forget about a win. What does a team have to do to get a lead? With Matt Garza turning in his worst start in the
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By Phil Rogers, Chicago Tribune – HOUSTON — Forget about a win. What does a team have to do to get a lead? With Matt Garza turning in his worst start in the
By Jim Puzzanghera, Los Angeles Times – WASHINGTON — The top European antitrust official said Monday that an investigation has found Google Inc. may have abused its online dominance to squelch competition and
By Salvador Rodriguez, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — For Mark Zuckerberg’s sake, it is hoped he went on a honeymoon because he’ll need something to take his mind off the billions
By Jessica Guynn, Los Angeles Times – SAN FRANCISCO — Maybe what Facebook really needs is a “buy” button. After a lifeless opening last week, Facebook shares tumbled on their second day of
By Jonathan S. Landay and Steven Thomma, McClatchy Newspapers – CHICAGO — NATO leaders on Monday adopted President Barack Obama’s exit strategy from the nearly 11-year-old U.S.-led intervention in Afghanistan, cementing an “irreversible”
By Maura Dolan, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — Medical marijuana patients cannot use a federal disability law to prevent cities from shutting down pot dispensaries, a federal appeals court decided Monday.
By Doug Smith, Star Tribune (Minneapolis) – MINNEAPOLIS — Details of Minnesota’s first wolf hunting and trapping season released Monday didn’t please everyone. Mark Johnson, executive director of the Minnesota Deer Hunters Association,
By John N. Mitchell, The Philadelphia Inquirer – BOSTON — It wasn’t quite the same as the miraculous comeback the 76ers orchestrated in the last meeting between the Sixer and the Celtics, but
By Michael Muskal, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — Jerry Sandusky, the former Penn State assistant football coach now charged with child sex abuse, will get his day in court as scheduled,
By W.J. Hennigan, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — Just days after aborting a rocket launch at the last second because of an engine problem, SpaceX is once again set to blast
By David Lauter, Tribune Washington Bureau – WASHINGTON — Almost two weeks after President Barack Obama announced his support for same-sex marriage, polls provide some measure of the impact — zero. Gallup’s tracking
By Todd Lighty, Chicago Tribune – CHICAGO — A few hundred protesters marched toward Boeing Corp.’s headquarters west of the Loop Monday chanting, “We’re gonna beat back the Boeing attack.” They arrived at
By Andrew Tangel, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — Facebook Inc. shares skidded on their second day of trading on Wall Street, falling below the initial public offering price of $38. The
By Rebecca D. O’Brien, The Record (Hackensack, N.J.) – NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — A judge ordered a former Rutgers student to serve a three-year probationary sentence with 30 days in jail, 300 hours
MASON CITY – Award winners were named in the 32nd Annual Cerro Gordo Photo Show at the MacNider Art Museum on Thursday, May 17th. Thirty-nine entries by twenty-one artists were chosen for
Editorial by Matt Marquardt – Charles Grassley, Iowa’s respected long-time Senator, is talking out of both sides of his mouth today. Grassley blasted the costs to the taxpayers for a 9th Circuit Judicial
Above: Reader submitted photo of a fallen tree in the 900 block of 8th Street SW in Mason City. Below: NIT photo of tree taken on May 21, 2011. No one was
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION For centuries, America’s progress has been driven by pioneers who think big, take risks, and work hard. Where their ideas take
MASON CITY – Early Monday morning at about 4:30 AM, Mason City Police Officers were dispatched to check the property owned by McKiness Excavating in the 300 block of 15th Street NE.
By David Lazarus, Los Angeles Times – If there’s one issue that consistently cheeses off consumers, it’s being unable to get a human being on the phone when you have a problem
By Chuck Myers, McClatchy-Tribune News Service – Student loans offer an invaluable avenue to help cover the cost of higher education. But they can also pose a financial burden on students once they
By David G. Savage, Tribune Washington Bureau – WASHINGTON — More than 2,000 people have been freed from prison since 1989 after they were found to have been wrongly convicted of serious
By Jeffrey Fleishman and Zaid Al-Alayaa, Los Angeles Times – SANA, Yemen — A suicide bomber targeting soldiers rehearsing for a military parade killed as many as 96 people Monday in a
By Broderick Turner, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Clippers didn’t go easily when they could have, when many thought they would have. They played Game 4 of
MASON CITY – Mason City police say today that a passer-by called police Monday morning at about 6:50 AM after hearing a person yelling for help in the area of the railroad
By Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times – The Supreme Court is about to toss a judicial bomb into the middle of the presidential campaign, and nobody knows what impact it will have.
dpa, Hamburg, Germany – Tehran (dpa) – A total of 14 convicted drug traffickers were hanged on Monday in the Iranian capital of Tehran, the ISNA news agency reported. The men were
AMES, Iowa – May 21, 2012 – The Iowa Department of Transportation is now distributing the 2012 Iowa Transportation Map for Bicyclists, a popular publication updated to show new 4-foot, paved shoulders
George C. Ford, CR Gazette – Manufacturing is slowly coming back to Iowa. And it has farming, in part, to thank for it. “Anyone making machinery, parts or virtually anything for agriculture
By Dave van Dyck, Chicago Tribune – CHICAGO — Maybe the next trade the White Sox need to make is U.S. Cellular Field for Wrigley Field. On their way to sweeping the
By Todd Rosiak, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel – MILWAUKEE — Simply looking to get Aramis Ramirez a day off, Ron Roenicke might have inadvertently created a lineup controversy Sunday. OK, not really. But
by Matt Marquardt – HAMPTON, IOWA -Work is nearing completion on a fence in Hampton that had nearly been lost. Due to the Highway 65 reconstruction project that was completed in the
Photo from Kelly Elbert of Mason City of Sunday’s solar eclipse.
By Claire Noland, Los Angeles Times – Robin Gibb, a singer and songwriter who joined two of his brothers in forming the Bee Gees pop group that helped define the sound of the
By David G. Savage, Tribune Washington Bureau – WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court, after a four-year break from terrorism issues, is set to decide as soon as Monday whether to again take up
By Austin Lyon, The Orlando Sentinel – HAINES CITY, Fla. — Kevin Davenport arrived at the Ironman 70.3 Florida on Sunday more than an hour before the triathlon. He drove from St.
by Matt Marquardt – Mark Hanson of Kanawha has been alerted by Guinness World Records that his achievement has been made official and added to their website. You can check out the
By Bob Cooney, Philadelphia Daily News – PHILADELPHIA — If there is anything about this Eastern Conference semifinal series between the 76ers and Boston Celtics that makes sense, it is hiding itself