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by Jody Spear and Kelly Meyer – CLEAR LAKE – At approximately 4:10 pm, Monday, a 911 call had emergency crews dispatched to the Clear Lake seawall area. Three people had apparently
By Michael Muskal, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — The U.S. Navy is resuming its program of targeting old war vessels and sinking them into deep ocean waters during military exercises,
By Carol J. Williams, Los Angeles Times – Unemployment in the 17-nation Eurozone climbed to another record high in May, reflecting deep public sector job cuts and a lack of employer confidence
NAME: Deondre Donta Amerison AGE: 33 SEX: Male FACILITY: Ft. Des Moines Work Release Facility OFFENSE: Habitual Offender (Property) SENTENCE: 15 Years COUNTY OF COMMITTMENT: Polk PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: RACE: Black HAIR: Black
MASON CITY – A Mason City man was arrested after a vehicle pursuit early Sunday morning. Just after midnight Sunday morning, July 1st, Brandon Michael Anderson, 21, was driving on Highway 65
From State Senator Gene Fraise: “I am sorry that Governor Branstad is so out-of-touch that he would ask public employees to cut their own pay. “I suppose it made some sense to
By David Pierson, Los Angeles Times – BEIJING — Apple Inc. has agreed to pay a Chinese company $60 million to settle a dispute over the name of the iPad tablet in
By Jody Spear andKelly Meyer – Josh Ruby has been spectacular at the I-35 Speedway. He has won three out of the last four weeks. The week he didn’t win, Levi Nielson
(DES MOINES) – Gov. Terry Branstad today signed Executive Order 78, which allows state workers to voluntarily pay 20 percent of their health care insurance premium. According to the Department of Administrative
AMES, Iowa – July 2, 2012 – Do you stay or do you go? Is oncoming traffic stopped? Motorists attempting to make a left turn will no longer have to wonder what
(DES MOINES) – Gov. Terry Branstad and Lt. Gov. Reynolds today announced that they both will pay 20% of their healthcare costs beginning August 1, 2012. “Hard-working Iowa taxpayers are accustomed to
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa – July 2, 2012 – Interstate Power and Light Co. (IPL), an Alliant Energy company, announced today it will cycle air conditioners for participating Iowa customers in the northern
(DES MOINES) – Gov. Terry Branstad today named Duane Magee as the new Executive Director of the Board of Educational Examiners. Magee, who serves at the pleasure of the governor, will begin
Dan Hinkel, Dawn Rhodes and Rosemary R. Sobol, Chicago Tribune – A 26-year-old alleged gang member has been charged with the fatal shooting of Heaven Sutton, the 7-year-old girl who was selling
By Elliott Almond, San Jose Mercury News – SAN JOSE, Calif. — Gabby Douglas won the automatic berth Sunday night, and it took U.S. gymnastics officials only 10 minutes to name her
Khalid Ali-M Aldawsari, 22, a citizen of Saudi Arabia and resident of Lubbock, Texas, was convicted by a federal jury today on an indictment charging one count of attempted use of a
WASHINGTON – A Milford, Conn., man pleaded guilty today in Hartford to sexually abusing four minor girls while he was a volunteer with the U.S. Peace Corps in South Africa, announced Assistant
By Jerry Zgoda, Star Tribune (Minneapolis) – MINNEAPOLIS — The Timberwolves got busy during the first 24 hours of NBA free agency, wooing Portland swingman Nicolas Batum to town on Sunday evening
Convicted Minnesota sex offender James William Allen, age 62, was extradited back to Iowa on a Class B felony warrant for 2nd degree sexual abuse this week. The alleged sexual abuse occurred
By Joe Flint, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — Satellite broadcaster Dish Network dropped the cable channel AMC from its service as a feud between the programmer and distributor showed no
NORA SPRINGS – Shortly before 10pm on Friday night a truck driver called the Cerro Gordo County Sheriff’s Department to report being struck by vehicle while traveling westbound on Hwy 18 near
by Paul West, Tribune Washington Bureau – WASHINGTON — Increasingly, the 2012 presidential election appears to be dividing along a pair of fault lines. The first is demographic: old versus new America.
By Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — Fred Karger, the openly gay Republican who ran for president without ever expecting to win, ended his quixotic campaign Friday. “It’s been
WASHINGTON – A Redmond, Ore., man was sentenced today to 36 months in prison for his participation in a scheme to help thousands steal internet service, Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer
WASHINGTON – A leader and two soldiers in the Barrio Azteca (BA), a transnational border gang allied with the Juarez Cartel, were sentenced in El Paso, Texas, to life, 30 and 20
By Noam N. Levey, Los Angeles Times – WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s health-care law emerged from its bruising two-year legal ordeal largely intact, with its primary goal of guaranteeing all Americans
By Alana Semuels, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — Both political parties agree that the country’s 21.3 million registered Latino voters could make a crucial difference in this year’s presidential election.
By Patrick Beach, Austin American-Statesman – AUSTIN, Texas — You can look it up: The Memphis Belle was the first heavy bomber to successfully complete 25 missions during World War II. Except,
WASHINGTON – A federal grand jury in Albuquerque, N.M., returned a one-count indictment charging former San Juan County, N.M., Sheriff’s Deputy R. Dale Frazier, 56, with unlawfully assaulting a man with a
By Dawn Rhodes and Rosemary Sobol, Chicago Tribune – CHICAGO — Police say they have a man in custody and are questioning him in the fatal shooting of Heaven Sutton, a 7-year-old
By Charean Williams, McClatchy Newspapers – OMAHA, Neb. — Thirty-seven swimmers have secured spots on the U.S. Olympic swim team. Three of them will swim a combined 22 events. Michael Phelps, Ryan
By Helene Elliott, Los Angeles Times – EUGENE, Ore. — Two-time Olympic 400-meter hurdles champion Angelo Taylor was sailing toward his fourth Olympic berth Sunday, the final day of the U.S. trials,
Chris Carroll, Stars and Stripes – WASHINGTONAir Force investigators have identified 31 female trainees who are alleged victims of military training instructors in growing sexual abuse and misconduct scandal at Lackland Air
MASON CITY, IOWA – Payless ShoeSource of Mason City is partnering with United Way of North Central Iowa for the 2nd annual Shoe Drive to benefit area students returning to school in
By Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel – MILWAUKEE — He knows it’s just fireworks, but Andrew Sabin’s heart races anyway and he starts to sweat profusely. The concussive booms sound like Iraq.
By Anne Danahy, McClatchy Newspapers – STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Jerry Sandusky is convicted and behind bars, but the victims who testified against him — and potentially many more — could now
Rod Boshart, CR Gazette – DES MOINES — A consortium of counties in northeast and north-central Iowa are already well down the road to meeting the needs of residents with mental disabilities,
By Matt Pearce and Melanie Mason, Tribune Washington Bureau – WASHINGTON — Utility crews struggled to restore electricity across several Eastern states on Sunday as a withering heat wave heightened the misery
By Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times – BEIRUT — Turkey said Sunday that it had scrambled fighter jets along its increasingly tense border with Syria after Syrian helicopters were detected close
By Tim Johnson, McClatchy Newspapers – MEXICO CITY —In a watershed turning point for Mexico, the once-dominant Institutional Revolutionary Party prepared Sunday night to celebrate what a spokesman called the “resounding triumph”