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AMES – He got a full ride scholarship to come to a small college town to play big-time college football. Now, Iowa State’s David Irving is charged with a felony and other
MASON CITY – Details are still emerging, but a garage fire was extinguished Friday afternoon at the 1400 block of North Hampshire Place. Mason City firefighters and police were at the scene.
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MASON CITY – It seems every few weeks, the citizens of Mason City are treated to a new chapter in the hotel development soap opera here in town. First, we were told
IOWA CITY – The University of Iowa recently expelled a student for sexual misconduct, the university reported Friday in a news release. UI officials confirmed that the expulsion resulted from a pattern
DES MOINES – The first case of chronic wasting disease (CWD) in a wild Iowa deer has been confirmed. The deer was reported as harvested in Allamakee County during the first shotgun
AMES – Police in Ames have released names of persons arrested so far in connection with the riots that took place in Campustown on Tuesday, April 8, 2014 during the VEISHEA celebration.
CEDAR RAPIDS – An Iowa man who allegedly murdered his parent with a machete was arraigned in court this week. Gordon Lasley, Jr., 25, from the Meskwaki Nation Settlement, Iowa, has been
MASON CITY – A Charles City man accused of stealing from Mills Fleet Farm and then skipping his trial turned himself in to police Friday. Tristan G. Hillhouse, age 27, failed to
MASON CITY – NIACC sophomore Morgan Walker has verbally committed to play basketball next season at Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville, Mo. Walker, who is 5 feet, 10 inches and prepped
VENTURA – Clear Lake police reported that a man has died following a motorcycle accident in Ventura. The accident took place Thursday at Highway 18 and Main Street in Ventura last night.
WASHINGTON – The United Nations independent expert tasked with defending the rights of indigenous peoples, today called on the owners of the Washington Redskins football team to consider that the term “redskins”
NIT – Police in Florida are investigating an incident in Miami where a woman woke up in a hospital bed with no recollection of how she got there after partying with three
MASON CITY – The war on crime in North Iowa has reached a new level, as Mason City police said Friday that they now have acquired a mine-resistant ambush-protected vehicle through a
From Senator Amanda Ragan – In the final weeks of the 2014 session, we continue our work to strengthen Iowa’s middle class and generate economic activity in communities across the state. HF
GUTHRIE ENTER, IOWA – The Guthrie County Sheriff’s Office received a 911 call reporting a burnt out vehicle on March 30, 2014. Upon arriving at the scene, the Guthrie County Sheriff’s Office
PARWAN PROVINCE, Afghanistan – Afghan National Security Forces with coalition advisers killed 16 insurgents and destroyed three narcotics labs April 8 in Nangarhar province’s Khogyani district. Commandos from the 1st Special Operations
ST. PAUL, MN – Following in the footsteps of two east coast states, the Minnesota legislature on Thursday approved a phased-in minimum wage hike. The current minimum wage of $6.15 would be
NIT – Almost half a million people across the world lost their lives in 2012 as a result of intentional homicide, with the highest murder rates logged in the Americas and Africa,
CLEAR LAKE – An established Clear Lake electrical business is changing ownership. David Poppy, a licensed master electrician, is the new owner of Jacobson Electric, located at 801 Buddy Holly Place in
NIT – Pakistan is known to harbor terrorists, Taliban fighters and other extremists who hate America – even Osama Bin Ladan at one point – but the US State Department announced in
NAVAL AIR STATION SIGONELLA, Italy – A team of Marines and sailors from Special-Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force Africa 14.1 will travel in April to Zakouma National Park, Chad to partner with
FOREST CITY – The Waldorf College Education department will host student capstone presentations on Thursday, May 1 in the Atrium Conference Room. The formal presentations will be observed by the members of