Day: September 25, 2011

U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin’s annual Democratic steak fry fundraiser last weekend left attendees covered in rain and mud. But the bad weather, Harkin said, did not dampen their spirits heading into the

Billy Compton Jr., age 21, of Mason City was sentenced September 21st in Cerro Gordo County District Court by Judge Carlynn Grupp to serve up to two years in prison following a

On the afternoon of Friday, September 23rd, members of the Mason City Police and Cerro Gordo County Sheriff’s Department conducted a search of a residence at 623 South Carolina Avenue in Mason

WASHINGTON ó President Barack Obama arrives in California on Sunday for a critical fundraising swing as his re-election campaign scrambles to make up ground lost this summer, when it was forced to

All things being equal, Rick Perry and Mitt Romney won’t be equal. At least not to evangelical Christian voters, who remain divided over whether Mormon believers are lost ó or whether the

By Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times BEIJING ó A 6-century-old Chinese tradition of dog eating collided this week with modern concepts about animal rights, and this time, modernity won. Local authorities canceled

WASHINGTON ó International financial officials called Saturday for collective, decisive action to bring the global economy out of its current dangerous phase both in Europe and worldwide.|By Anne Walters WASHINGTON ó International

WASHINGTON ó The United States condemned the violence and instability in Yemen at the end of a day that saw 40 people killed in the worst violence to hit the capital Sanaa

By Jody Spear Don’t Shop-Adopt, is Sybil Soukup’s, Executive Director of the North Iowa Humane Society in Mason City, Iowa, slogan. The Humane Society of North Iowa is a non-profit organization that

MASON CITY — It’s after 8 p.m. on a dark and chilly North Iowa night, and the strobe light on the phone is flashing again in the studio at KLKK- FM 103.7,

By Joe Buttweiler MASON CITY — Bruce Wasenius’ resume is filled with more twists and turns than a Pink Floyd album, including a stint at a station where one of the conditions