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Mason City Iowa – The Visit Mason City Board of Directors announced recently they will be relocating the Mason City Visitor Information Center, along with staff offices to a new location. Visit
By Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times NEW DELHI — Aastha Arora is one in a billion. At least that’s what they called her when she was born on May 11, 2000. Designated
Mason City Iowa – The Visit Mason City Board of Directors announced today they will be relocating the Mason City Visitor Information Center, along with staff offices to a new location. Visit
By Ronald D. White, Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES — American drivers this week broke a record that will bring them no joy. They collectively spent more than $448 billion on gasoline
By Alaine Griffin, The Hartford Courant NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Jurors decided on the death penalty Friday for home invasion killer Joshua Komisarjevsky, rejecting weeks of defense evidence that portrayed him as
By Stephen Ceasar and Rene Lynch, Los Angeles Times The motive behind a puzzling murder-suicide on the campus of Virginia Tech was still unknown Friday, as investigators continued to piece together why
By Kim Geiger, Tribune Washington Bureau WASHINGTON — Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich, in an interview with the Jewish Channel, called the Israeli-Palestinian peace process “delusional” and said Palestinians are “an invented”
Sunday Night Mixed League Rose Bowl 12/04/11 Team High Series Candy Bar 1505 Team High Game Candy Bar 528 Individual High Series Male Greg Loveless 613 Individual High Series Female Sandy Isch
By James Oliphant, Tribune Washington Bureau WASHINGTON — Numbers. They’re the darnedest things. Just ask Rick Perry. The GOP presidential contender, whose misfires have become part of the story line of the
By James Oliphant, Tribune Washington Bureau WASHINGTON — The National Labor Relations Board dropped a much-criticized action against Boeing Co., a move praised by Republicans as overdue but one that deprives the
By David G. Savage, Tribune Washington Bureau WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court granted an emergency appeal Friday night from Texas Republicans, putting on hold a redistricting map drawn by judges that gave
By Richard Simon, Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON — Seeking unemployment benefits? Be prepared to take a drug test if a congressman has his way. Legislation introduced by Rep. Jack Kingston, R-Ga., would
By Kevin G. Hall, McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON — European leaders closed a pivotal week Friday with an agreement in principle to join a new treaty that would force all but one European
By Henry Chu, Los Angeles Times LONDON — By agreeing to knit their nations closer together on fiscal and economic policy, Europe’s leaders are writing a potentially momentous new chapter in the
By Chris Dufresne, Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES — The Heisman Trophy that seemed to be Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck’s to lose may be lost Saturday night to a Baylor quarterback. Momentum
By Ellen Gray, Philadelphia Daily News Horror fans who haven’t become jaded by the never-ending bloodbath on FX’s “American Horror Story” have probably already marked their calendars for “Stephen King’s Bag of
By Mike Bresnahan, Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES — As the Lakers progressed on reworking their trade proposal for Chris Paul, another possibility blew in their direction, wearing a Superman cape. The
By John Horn, Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES — The signature action scene in the soon-to-be-released “Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows,” unfolds in a fusillade in a forest, as high-speed cameras
By Meg James, Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES — Cable television networks may be the most lucrative divisions of many large media companies, but the networks are beginning to feel the pinch
By Tom Hudson, McClatchy Newspapers Which will act first this week: the Federal Reserve or Congress? Lawmakers must do something by Friday to avert a government shutdown. The Federal Reserve may feel
By Paul West, Tribune Washington Bureau WASHINGTON — For months, many Republicans have cast about for an alternative to Mitt Romney, decrying him as insufficiently conservative. Now they appear to have settled
By David Lightman, McClatchy Newspapers CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — Mitt Romney faces daunting challenges in this, the first state to vote for the 2012 Republican presidential nominee. Foremost is the sudden widespread
By Christine Clarridge, The Seattle Times SEATTLE — One of two men accused of conspiring to attack a military-processing station in Seattle in July pleaded guilty to three federal charges Thursday in
By George Anastasia, The Philadelphia Inquirer NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — A former Rutgers University student charged with invading the privacy of his roommate by secretly taping him in an intimate encounter with
By Alana Semuels, Los Angeles Times BELMONT, Mass. — In a closely knit Mormon congregation, Ronnie Catalano was a problem Mitt Romney wanted to solve. As bishop — a position akin to
By Maura Dolan, Los Angeles Times SAN FRANCISCO — A federal appeals court appeared unlikely Thursday to throw out a ruling against Proposition 8, the 2008 California measure that banned gay marriage,
The Mason City Zoning Board of Adjustment again postponed a decision on granting a conditional use permit to Creative Energy Systems. Click here to view photos from the meeting. The board postponed
Mason City’s Roller Derby team, the River City Dames of Anarchy, took a break from their practice on Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011, to give back to the community. The Dames, with the
On November 28th a public bench warrant was issued by Cerro Gordo County District Court Judge Carlynn Grupp for 57 year old Bradley Scott Berding formerly of Clear Lake after he failed
MASON CITY – Cerro Gordo County deputies arrested 21-year-old Shyla Yvonne Piper shortly before 2pm on Thursday on a warrant issued after law enforcement seen her drive to the Cerro Gordo County
Janet Solberg still has her City Hall inbox locked up tight. It is an odd sight, looking at all the open boxes, where public information is placed for council members, the mayor,
By Kevin G. Hall, McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON — A key financial regulator said Wednesday that it had fined Wall Street powerhouse Merrill Lynch $350,000 for violating rules that limit how many speculative
LOS ANGELES — Alec Baldwin, who was kicked off an American Airlines flight Tuesday at Los Angeles International Airport after a dispute with the airline crew, blamed the incident in part on
By Rene Lynch, Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES — The gunman in the Virginia Tech shooting was not a student, had no apparent connection to the university and is believed to have
The Mason City bowling team, only in its second year as a sanctioned sport in Iowa, picked up four victories Thursday afternoon of Dowling Catholic. The boys and girls varsity teams won,
Sunday Night Mixed League Rose Bowl 12/04/11 Team High Series Candy Bar 1505 Team High Game Candy Bar 528 Individual High Series Male Greg Loveless 613 Individual High Series Female Sandy Isch