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MASON CITY – Saturday night at about 7:30 PM, Mason City Police arrested a man they had been searching for since an afternoon stabbing incident. The victim, now identified by Mason City
DES MOINES – A freeze warning is in affect for the northern two-thirds of Iowa until 8 AM Sunday. Overnight lows from the mid-20s to lower 30s are expected by early Sunday
IOWA CITY – Central Michigan beat Iowa 32-31 today by scoring 9 points in the last minute. CMS overcame 217 yards rushing from Iowa running back Mark Weisman. Here are the post-game notes: The
Grant Burkhardt – CR Gazette – AMES — Jake McDonough, age three, donned his replica Chicago Bears helmet and issued a bold proclamation to his parents. “I’m going to be big and
by Jody Spear and Kelly Meyer – MASON CITY – The Mason City Fire Department was dispatched to Heartland Community Credit Union, 1602 S. Monroe, shortly before 8:00 am Saturday morning due to
Sunday Night Mixed League Rose Bowl 09/15/2012 Team High Series Candy Bar 1468 Team High Game Candy Bar Individual High Series Male Terry Shoafstall 541 Individual High Series Female Sandy Isch 527
By Jose Miguel Leyva, (MCT) – This year marks the 25th annual Hispanic Heritage Month celebration, but we’re still being taken for granted by politicians of both parties. Despite campaign promises four years
Kansas City Star – The following editorial appeared in the Kansas City Star – ——— One of the things a Boy Scout must learn by heart is the Scout Law, a list
Chicago Tribune – The following editorial appeared in the Chicago Tribune: ——— Given the toxic atmosphere in the nation’s capital, no one could know whether official Washington would provide a nonpolitical, down-the-middle
By David Lazarus, Los Angeles Times – A new federal law intended to keep TV commercials from bursting your eardrums won’t take effect until Dec. 13. But the cable industry already is trying
By Andrew Tangel, Los Angeles Times – NEW YORK — More checks are in the mail for financier Bernard Madoff’s victims, nearly four years after his epic Ponzi scheme collapsed. Irving Picard, the
By Hugo Martin, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — Amid labor strife, bankruptcy proceedings and layoffs, American Airlines has canceled hundreds of flights through October. The airline, whose parent company AMR Corp.
By Jerry Hirsch, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — General Motors Co. announced Friday a big recall of Chevrolet, Pontiac and Saturn mid-size sedans to fix a transmission problem that could cause
By Jim Puzzanghera, Los Angeles Times – WASHINGTON — Three states have joined a lawsuit challenging a key provision of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law enacted in 2010. The attorneys general of Michigan,
By Jessica Guynn, Los Angeles Times – SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook Inc. has agreed to delete all the facial recognition data it has collected from European users and switch off the feature in
By Andrea Chang, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — Despite complaints over a new Maps app and a smaller dock connector, hundreds of Apple fans spent the night outside Apple stores hoping
by Matt Marquardt – MASON CITY – John Choate resumed his crusade against the “big bank” Friday afternoon. Choate had been in Mason City on Tuesday voicing his dissatisfaction with the service
By Kim Geiger, Tribune Washington Bureau – WASHINGTON — As Republicans come to grips with Todd Akin’s continuing candidacy in the Missouri Senate race, Akin and his opponent Claire McCaskill squared off
By Edmund Sanders, Los Angeles Times – JERUSALEM — Well-armed militants from the Sinai Desert infiltrated Israel on Friday and attacked a military outpost, killing one Israeli soldier and wounding another. The
MASON CITY, Iowa – The next phase of construction on the new interchange at the former intersection of U.S. 218 and Bremer County Road C-50/Barrick Road will cut off frontage road access
By Maeve Reston, Los Angeles Times – Mitt Romney’s physician described the Republican presidential nominee as a “energetic, strong, physically fit” and vigorous man in a letter released Friday offering the first
By Amy Kaufman, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — When “How I Met Your Mother” star Josh Radnor attended Kenyon College, a private liberal arts school in a tiny Ohio town,
By Michael Doyle, McClatchy Newspapers – WASHINGTON — Timothy L. Merritt is waiting for final justice from the Air Force he once served. The former master sergeant is only one of dozens
Trish Mehaffey, CR Gazette – A Central City man accused of shooting and killing a Cedar Rapids man last month pleaded not guilty Thursday, and his trial was set for Nov. 26
By Allison Prang, The Kansas City Star – KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Newlyweds have always had to deal with a load of sometimes painful money issues when starting life together. Now, rising college
By Lance Pugmire, Los Angeles Times – Jon Jones made an unprecedented stand against the Ultimate Fighting Championship last month — the light-heavyweight champion declined to fight a last-minute substitute, prompting the
By Hannah Allam, McClatchy Newspapers – WASHINGTON — The State Department is poised to remove a militant Iranian dissident group from its list of foreign terrorist organizations, the culmination of a long,
By Richard Simon, Los Angeles Times – WASHINGTON — For three years, Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., steadfastly maintained that during a call with the Treasury secretary in the midst of the nation’s
By Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune – CHICAGO — Lovie Smith said Matt Forte has made progress with his sprained right ankle. But Forte did not practice all week and has been ruled
By Kent Youngblood, Star Tribune (Minneapolis) – MINNEAPOLIS — So far he has been an efficient, if underutilized, receiver on a team that prefers to run the ball. Randy Moss on Sunday
By Maeve Reston, Los Angeles Times – The charter plane ferrying Ann Romney from Omaha, Neb., to Santa Monica, Calif., on Friday was forced to make an emergency landing in Denver after
By Ron Green Jr., The Charlotte Observer – ATLANTA — Jim Furyk hoped the question was coming and, when it did, he was glad. A few minutes removed from putting the finishing
By David Scott, The Charlotte Observer – LOUDON, N.H. — The first race weekend of the Chase for the Cup ended badly for Jeff Gordon. The second weekend has started better. Gordon
By David Scott, The Charlotte Observer – LOUDON, N.H. — When you own one race team and drive for another, your time tends to fill up quickly. People and demands pull at
by Matt Marquardt – MASON CITY – The North Iowa Diversity Appreciation Team (NIDAT) partnered with Main Street Mason City to sponsor the 9th annual ethnic Lunch by Central Park event with
MASON CITY – NIT reported Thursday that a building at 514 South Federal Avenue has debris falling off it and might not be safe to be near. “Can the city please cleanup