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Dan Browning, Star Tribune (Minneapolis) – A Minnesota woman found guilty of copyright violations for using music-sharing software on the Internet will have to pay $222,000 after all. The 8th U.S. Circuit
By Bob Dutton, The Kansas City Star – MINNEAPOLIS — Here on Tuesday night, finally, the Royals got a look at the Minnesota Twins that the rest of the league, if the
A man who possessed a firearm after having been convicted of two previous felonies, pled guilty on August 29, 2012, in federal court in Sioux City. Terry Leo Wirkus, age 57, from
A man who conspired to distribute heroin was convicted by a jury August 29, 2012, after a 2-day trial in federal court in Cedar Rapids. Dion Thomas, 35, from Chicago, Illinois, was
A federal grand jury has charged fourteen more people with participating in a conspiracy to distribute heroin in the Waterloo area. The charges are contained in an Indictment unsealed on September 5,
(DES MOINES) – Gov. Terry Branstad and Lt. Gov. Kim Reynolds released the following statements to commemorate the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks: “We must never forget the terrible atrocities
Bill Sperfslage, Deputy Warden of the Anamosa State Penitentiary, has been selected as the 2012 Deputy Warden of the Year by the United States Deputy Warden’s Association. Sperfslage began his corrections career
An Interview With:COACH KIRK FERENTZ, September 11, 2012 – COACH FERENTZ: Injury-wise, I think we are in good shape. I think we came out of the game fairly healthy. Captains remain the
By Christi Parsons, Tribune Washington Bureau – WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney planned a low-key day devoted to the memory of the Sept. 11 attacks, playing down politics as much
By David Pierson, Los Angeles Times – BEIJING — China said Tuesday it has sent surveillance ships to waters near three islands at the center of a dispute with Japan, a day after
By Amy Worden, The Philadelphia Inquirer – SHANKSVILLE, Pa. — Looking into cloudless blue skies stunningly reminiscent of Sept. 11, 2001, Vice President Joe Biden delivered an emotional address to the families of
By Michael Doyle, McClatchy Newspapers – ARLINGTON, Va. — There is a weighty silence, the kind that drapes the shoulders, at the gravesite of Navy Lt. Cmdr. Otis Vincent Tolbert. Time remains frozen.
By Stacy St. Clair, Chicago Tribune – CHICAGO — Drew Peterson has fired the attorney who loudly warned against calling Kathleen Savio’s divorce lawyer as a defense witness — a move which Peterson’s
September 11, 2001, may have changed life as we knew it, but it did not change our country’s commitment to freedom, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Today, on the 11th anniversary
WASHINGTON–Today, Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) spoke on the floor of the Senate in support of confirmation on Stephanie Rose to serve as a the first female district court judge in Iowa’s Southern
Washington, D.C. – Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) released the following statement today. “Regardless of how years have passed since this tragedy struck our nation, the memories are still the same for every
by Matt Marquardt – MASON CITY – Mason City police and fire department personnel responded to a one-car accident Tuesday near the 200 block of 2nd Street NE. According to a police
SPIRIT LAKE, Iowa – The Iowa DNR recently collected a single live juvenile zebra mussel from Upper Gar Lake on a sampling plate used to monitor for the presence or absence of
DES MOINES – The National Weather Service in Des Moines continues to issue a red flag warning for most of the North Iowa area and all of western Iowa. “The combination of
By Tina Susman and Michael Muskal, Los Angeles Times – NEW YORK — With bagpipes and somber bells sounding a sharp counterpoint to the commemorative moments of silence, the nation on Tuesday marked
MASON CITY – The Cerro Gordo County Supervisors met Tuesday morning with an armed Cerro Gordo County Sheriff’s Deputy in attendance. According to a source that phoned NIT’s office today, the deputy
by Jody Spear and Kelly Meyer – MASON CITY – The Mason City Fire Department was dispatched to a field fire near the 1400 block of 12th Street NW, shortly before noon
It is with great sadness and a heavy heart that I inform you of a middle school staff member who unexpectedly collapsed and died Monday evening. Mr. Royal Wentworth was teaching 8th
by Matt Marquardt – MASON CITY -The Mason City Parks Board met Tuesday night and heard lengthy public input on a proposed sledding hill. The sledding hill, again, is proposed for the
DES MOINES – The Iowa Board of Corrections will be meeting this week in Des Moines for their monthly meeting. At the meeting, the board will be taking an “Evidence Based Practices
By Mitchell Landsberg and Robin Abcarian, Los Angeles Times – LAKE FOREST, Ill. — Mitt Romney took up the cudgels again against Russia on Monday, telling a radio interviewer that “almost everything we
By Tina Susman, Los Angeles Times – NEW YORK — Trenton, N.J., Mayor Tony Mack — a.k.a. “Napoleon,” “the Little Guy” and “Honey Fitz” — was released on bond Monday after his arrest
Vanessa Miller, The Gazette, Cedar Rapids, Iowa – A 22-yar-old woman caught using her teenage sister in a sex trafficking business before she was arrested during a sting in Coralville in April that netted
By Richard Simon, Los Angeles Times – WASHINGTON — The District of Columbia is about to get a bit more respect, if not statehood, with Congress poised to approve the placement of a
By Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Los Angeles Times – HOUSTON — A Dallas-area man has been charged with murder in connection with the death of a 16-year-old girl who was expected to testify at his
By Alexandra Seltzer, Palm Beach Post – WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — In less than 24 hours, Scott Van Duzer of Port St. Lucie, Fla., has gone from a local pizza store owner
By Laura King, Los Angeles Times – KABUL, Afghanistan — On the eve of the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, the Taliban issued a bellicose statement accusing the United States of using the
By Andrew Dunn, The Charlotte Observer – CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Bank of America Chief Financial Officer Bruce Thompson said Monday that the Charlotte bank is essentially done with the massive asset sell-off that
By Amy Worden, The Philadelphia Inquirer – SHANKSVILLE, Pa. — FBI Special Agent John Larsen spent most of the two weeks after 9/11 on his knees in an old coal field, wearing a
By Michael Muskal, Los Angeles Times – The nation on Tuesday will commemorate the 11th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, but this year’s ceremonies will be different — at least
By Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — The Big Dog beat the guy in the Big Chair. And a guy talking to an empty chair beat the guy trying
MILWAUKEE – A Wisconsin man was sentenced Thursday to five years in federal prison for traveling to a foreign country and having illicit sexual conduct with a minor. This sentence was announced
By Kim Murphy, Los Angeles Times – SEATTLE — Only a day after Shell Alaska began drilling a landmark offshore oil well in the Arctic, the company was forced Monday to pull off
By Andy Grimm, Chicago Tribune – CHICAGO — Just days after a jury found him guilty of murdering his third wife, lawyers for Drew Peterson filed a motion Monday to dismiss a wrongful-death
By Jim Schaefer and Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press – DETROIT — In a matter of days, when the jury is finally seated, former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick will stride into federal court