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By Jeff Shain, The Orlando Sentinel – LYTHAM ST. ANNES, England — Adam Scott, seeking a first major championship many thought would have come years ago, put himself in position to accomplish
By Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune – ST. LOUIS — When Matt Garza left Saturday night’s game against the Cardinals after the third inning and was caught by TV cameras flexing his right
By Alexandra Zavis and Michael Muskal, Los Angeles Times – AURORA, Colo. — Officials said they believed that the major threat of explosions had been eliminated at the booby-trapped apartment of James
MASON CITY – Mason City police arrested a Mason City man in connection with an assault of a “sexual nature” of a female teen. According to a police report, at about 3:00
MASON CITY – According to a Mason City police incident report at 1:29pm on Thursday an officer received a report of a found bicycle that had been stolen. The person who was
By Michael Linhorst, Erinn Connor and Sachi Fujimori, The Record (Hackensack N.J.) – HACKENSACK, N.J. — The man who police say killed 12 people in a Colorado movie theater early Friday was
By Robin Abcarian, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — The family of 23-year-old Micayla Medek went through an almost unimaginable emotional torture Friday. They knew she’d been wounded in the Aurora,
By Ashley Powers, Los Angeles Times – AURORA, Colo. — Stephen Barton and his friend Ethan Rodriguez-Torrent had pedaled their bikes 80 exhausting miles Thursday as part of a cross-country tour. They
By Matea Gold and Melanie Mason, Tribune Washington Bureau – WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s sharp turn to the offensive against GOP challenger Mitt Romney last month came at a steep cost:
By Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune – A mixed review of a feverishly anticipated blockbuster in the making — let’s take “The Dark Knight Rises” as an example — works like a Rorschach
By Steven Zeitchik, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — As details emerge about a deadly rampage Friday at a screening of “The Dark Knight Rises” in Aurora, Colo., there are also
By Chris Riemenschneider, Star Tribune (Minneapolis) – MINNEAPOLIS — Due at the airport in three hours for a gig in Washington, D.C., Soul Asylum guitarist Dan Murphy wanted to make sure his
By Joe Flint, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — DirecTV subscribers no longer have to go searching for Nickelodeon’s “Dora the Explorer” or Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show.” Ending a nine-day
By John Boudreau, San Jose Mercury News – SAN JOSE, Calif. — The London Summer Olympics have yet to start, but the windfall from the global economic sports behemoth has already been
By Alisa Priddle, Detroit Free Press – DETROIT — Ford said the C-Max Energi, which will be its first plug-in hybrid when it hits showrooms later this year, can run for more
by Jody Spear and Kelly Meyer – MASON CITY – Around 11:30 am Friday, the Mason City Police and Fire Departments were called to 12th Street NW, near Curries, for a vehicle
By Mark Washburn, McClatchy Newspapers – CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Dallas, St. Louis and Charlotte, N.C., will be the first three cities in the nation to test a new TV ratings system, the
By Kirsten Valle Pittman, McClatchy Newspapers – CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A former Bank of America Corp. executive has been indicted for his role in a bid-rigging scheme that played out at the
By Jeremy C. Owens, San Jose Mercury News – SAN JOSE, Calif. — More than two months after Facebook’s much-hyped initial public offering led to a botched first day of trading and
By Christian Boone, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution – ATLANTA — From calls for a boycott to pledges of support, Chick-fil-A president Dan Cathy’s recent comments supporting traditional marriage have prompted strong reactions from
By Jim Puzzanghera, Los Angeles Times – WASHINGTON — Richard Cordray has a message for opponents of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Neither he nor the new watchdog agency is going away.
From Sheriff Joe PAC – George Lopez’s launched a profanity laced rant against me just this week. In fact it was so vile that I cannot even repeat it here. (Watch videos
DES MOINES – The Mason City Redhawks 8U baseball team dropped two games in Des Moines yesterday. The team lost 12-15 to the #1 seed Nebraska Bisons after being up 12-9 in
By Laura J. Nelson, Jenny Deam and Rick Rojas, Los Angeles Times – AURORA, Colo. — Jessica Ghawi narrowly escaped a murderous rampage at a shopping center in Toronto last month, deciding
MASON CITY – Shortly before 9 pm on Thursday, July 19th, Mason City Police Officers responded to a report of a naked man standing outside a house at 823 15th Street South
by Jody Spear and Kelley Meyer – MASON CITY – One week after the tragic murder at 410 N. Washington, the Mason City Police Department and Cerro Gordo Sheriff’s Deputies were searching
By Joe Mozingo and Matt Stevens, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — The suspect in the Colorado shooting Friday was described as a shy but polite, highly intelligent young man with
By Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times – BEIRUT — Fighting raged for a sixth consecutive day in Damascus, opposition activists said Friday, even as Syria’s government declared that it had routed
Trish Mehaffey, CR Gazette – CEDAR RAPIDS – A roofing contractor from Texas working in Cedar Rapids and harboring illegal workers was sentenced this week to six months in federal prison. Macedonio
By Patrick McGreevy and Michael J. Mishak, Los Angeles Times – SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California lawmakers gave raises worth $4.6 million annually to more than 1,000 of their aides before cutting the
By Richard Marosi, Los Angeles Times – A San Diego jury convicted a young woman on kidnapping charges Thursday for her “femme fatale” role in a Mexican gang that targeted wealthy businessmen
By Janet Stobart, Los Angeles Times – LONDON — Already coping with a shortage of private security staff, the organizers of the 2012 Olympic Games in London are now facing the threat
By Steve Popper, The Record (Hackensack N.J.) – While Jeremy Lin has insisted his first choice would have been a return to New York, at his introductory news conference in Houston on
Jeff Proctor, Albuquerque Journal, N.M. – An Albuquerque Police Department SWAT officer has been removed from his position as a team leader after comments were captured on video during a standoff on
By Andrew Blankstein, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — Police agencies across Southern California will have undercover officers inside movie theaters in the wake of the “Dark Knight” cinema shooting in
(DES MOINES) – Gov. Branstad on Friday encouraged farmers to harvest grass in the state highway right of way as a way to help combat this summer’s drought. “Under the hot and
By La Velle E. Neal III, Star Tribune (Minneapolis) – KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The latest version of Nick Blackburn is back — without a beard — to prove he can bring
DES MOINES, IOWA – Iowa’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate increased slightly in June to 5.2. The current rate compares with 5.1 percent in May, and 6.0 percent in June 2011. Meanwhile, the
By Matt Stevens, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles County judge ordered the co-founder of frozen yogurt giant Pinkberry on Thursday to stand trial for allegedly assaulting a
By Benjamin Miraski, Chicago Tribune – The excitement drained out of the PR representative’s voice on the other end of the phone almost immediately. “Danica Patrick?” she said. “We have been answering