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By K.C. Johnson, Chicago Tribune – CHICAGO — During a 2009 playoff game, Rajon Rondo threw Kirk Hinrich into a United Center scorer’s table. What he did to the Bulls on Monday night
By Jerry Zgoda, Star Tribune (Minneapolis) – DALLAS — What else? Don’t ask. The injury-ravaged Timberwolves somehow won yet another game on Monday, but lost yet another player at least for the evening
By Adam Teicher, The Kansas City Star – PITTSBURGH — The 1929 Buffalo Bisons are able to rest comfortably again, their NFL record for futility at the start of an NFL season safe
By Joseph Goodman, The Miami Herald – HOUSTON — This one will be remembered for one thing and one thing only: Jeremy Lin’s airball. People will eventually forget that LeBron James tied a
An Interview With: COACH FRAN McCAFFERY – Q In the second half you played a lot of four guards with May, Clemmons running the point. What were your thoughts on that? FRAN
From MCPD: On 11/12/2012, at 5:56 P.M. the Mason City Police Department was notified a collision between a vehicle and a pedestrian in the 600 block of North Monroe Ave., Officers arrived
Jackie Crosby, Star Tribune (Minneapolis) – With President Obama’s victory in hand, it’s full steam ahead on implementing the federal health care law. States face a Friday deadline to say whether they’ll build
Matt Peterson, Austin Daily Herald, Minn. – Authorities have little to go on after 5 shot Though another day has passed since a shooting at Lansing Corners Event Center injured five people, those
Paul Walsh and Randy Furst, Star Tribune (Minneapolis) – A 21-year-old man has been charged with throwing his girlfriend’s 21-month-old daughter onto a bed “like a sack of potatoes” in their north Minneapolis
By Tiffany Hsu, Los Angeles Times – The U.S. will become the world’s top producer of oil within five years, a net exporter of the fuel around 2030 and nearly self-sufficient in energy
By Christine Pirovolakis – ATHENS, Greece — Greece moved one step closer to persuading international lenders to release the next installment of emergency aid needed to keep the country from going bankrupt,
By Sheera Frenkel, McClatchy Newspapers – JERUSALEM — Israel’s military engaged on two fronts Monday, exchanging fire across its northern border with Syria and its southern border with Gaza as its leaders warned
By David Enders, McClatchy Newspapers – RAS AL AYN, Syria — Thousands of people fled Ras al Ayn Monday for the safety of Turkey as the battle between Syrian rebels and government troops
By Nancy A. Youssef, McClatchy Newspapers – BENGHAZI, Libya — Just more than a mile from the group of villas that served as the U.S. consulate in Benghazi was another set of U.S.-leased
MEN’S BASKETBALL What’s next: The NIACC men’s basketball team (4-1 overall) plays at the Waldorf College junior varsity in Forest City at 7 p.m. Wednesday. The Trojans also play at the Dale
By Juan O. Tamayo, The Miami Herald – MIAMI — Two more Cuban dissidents have alleged that they were abused personally or on the orders of a former Villa Clara provincial prison
By Tina Susman, Los Angeles Times – NEW YORK — The grim toll from Superstorm Sandy has risen yet again in New York City with the death of a 77-year-old man who
(Mason City) – The Cerro Gordo County Department of Public Health, the Partnership for a Tobacco Free Cerro Gordo County, and Cerro Gordo Students for Tobacco Education and Prevention (CG-STEP) are working
By Randy Lewis, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — Deep within the high-security Iron Mountain storage facility in Hollywood, where nearly every doorway except for the restroom is protected by a security-card
By David Pierson, Los Angeles Times – BEIJING — China’s new leaders, set to be unveiled next week at a once-a-decade transition, will soon be handed the keys to the world’s second-largest economy.
By Andrea Chang, Los Angeles Times – Amazon.com Inc. is uncorking a new venture. The online retail giant launched a wine marketplace on its website Thursday, with more than 1,000 domestic brands available.
By Nathan Bomey, Detroit Free Press – Every weekday, Chevrolet Volt owners jockey to hook up their cars to the two electric-vehicle charging stations in front of General Motors’ Renaissance Center headquarters in
By Barry Koltnow, The Orange County Register – “You expect me to talk?” James Bond says with a defiant air, even as he is strapped to a table with a laser beam
By Amy Kaufman, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — Movie theaters posted their worst attendance since 1994 last year, but Hollywood is poised for a big comeback — with the help
By David Martindale, Fort Worth Star-Telegram – How’s this for an audacious history lesson? In its new big-event TV series, the History channel will recap the entire story of mankind, covering every
By Morgan Little, Los Angeles Times – “After a decade of war, our heroes are coming home,” President Barack said Sunday, marking Veterans Day by highlighting the first such day in 10
By Matthew McGrath and Linh Tat, The Record (Hackensack, N.J.) – HACKENSACK, N.J.—Most utility customers should have power restored by the end of this weekend, and additional public transit lines will start
MASON CITY – A former Mason City man now living in Coralville, stopped just a few weeks ago by Mason City police for operating while intoxicated, was picked up over the weekend
By Ken Dilanian and David S. Cloud, Tribune Washington Bureau – WASHINGTON — The woman whose complaints sparked an FBI investigation that led to CIA Director David Petraeus’ resignation was identified Sunday
From Congressman Tom Latham – In the first Veterans Day Proclamation, President Eisenhower stated, “In order to insure proper and widespread observance of this anniversary, all veterans, all veterans’ organizations, and the
MASON CITY – A Rockwell man who has had no less than 50 criminal cases brought against him by local law enforcement, one of which resulted in a death of a Mason
By Kim Murphy, Los Angeles Times – JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. — Testimony in the preliminary hearing for U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales wound up Sunday night with a senior Afghan
U.S. Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Rosebud man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for abusive sexual contact and abusive sexual contact while registered as a sex offender.
By Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune – CHICAGO — The Chicago Bears made Jason Campbell one of the highest-paid backup quarterbacks in the NFL for situations just like this. They have to be
MASON CITY, IOWA – With the holiday season upon us, United Way of North Central Iowa is inviting community members to help stop childhood hunger. There are hungry children in our community
Mike Hlas, CR Gazette – Well, well, well. Look what school has the gall to send another of its athletic teams to Iowa City. Why, if it isn’t Central Michigan, which had
by Jody Spear and Kelly Meyer – MASON CITY – Throughout last week starting early in the morning, with frost still on the windshield of most people cars, workers from Dean Snyder
By Tom Silverstein, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel – GREEN BAY, Wis. — The problem was simple and the solution logical. The only question was whether it would really work. Green Bay Packers general
AMES, Iowa – Iowa State’s second-rated women’s cross country team is seven days from the biggest race of the season and the premier event in the career of runners who will toe
By David Pierson, Los Angeles Times – BEIJING — The Chinese economy was deluged with promising news Friday after officials released October data that showed consumer price inflation slowing to its weakest pace