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The North Iowa Diversity Appreciation Team (NIDAT) is sponsoring its 7th annual Art/Writing contest. This contest is for children K through 12 in North Iowa – as far West as…
Cedar Falls, IOWA — Today, 44 year old John Gogola of Cedar Falls, Iowa was arrested and charged with Theft in the First Degree. This charge is a class C…
Dallas S. Keen, 22, of Ocala is in the Marion County Jail to face one count of possession of pre cursor chemicals to manufacture DMT (N, N-Dimethyltryptamine) and one count…
DES MOINES, IA – On December 20, 2011, Charles Crider, 44, of Humeston, Iowa, appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Celeste F. Bremer and entered a not guilty plea to federal…
Mary Jane Smetanka, Star Tribune, Minneapolis – The Golden Valley City Council has fired its Human Rights Commission after it asked the city to form a task force to help prevent…
The number of students who enrolled in Iowa’s public schools for the 2011-12 school year decreased slightly from the year before, according to the official certified enrollment report released by…
Jean L. Howell Jean L. Howell, 71 of 625 14th Ave. N., Clear Lake, went to be with her heavenly father, on Sunday, December 25, 2011 at Heritage Care Center,…
By Nancy A. Youssef and Jonathan S. Landay, McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON — Amid an escalating war of words between the United States and Iran over the Strait of Hormuz, U.S. and…
By Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times DES MOINES, Iowa — The rants are familiar to any listener of talk radio — blistering critiques of the Occupy Wall Street movement, outrage over…
By Kim Murphy, Los Angeles Times – SEATTLE — To the string of suicides, assaults and slayings plaguing Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state, add one more: A soldier stationed there…
John Bohnenkamp, The Hawk Eye, Burlington, Iowa – IOWA CITY – It was an ugly beginning to the Big Ten schedule last season for the Iowa basketball team. The Hawkeyes opened…
By Sergei L. Loiko, Los Angeles Times MOSCOW — After more than three weeks of public protests over fraud allegations in Russia’s parliamentary elections, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has made clear…
By John Timpane, Philadelphia Inquirer – Some believe that in 2011, the world lost its most beautiful woman. When Elizabeth Taylor, 79, took leave of this life in March, hers…
By Matthew Hay Brown, The Baltimore Sun – BALTIMORE — The number of sexual assaults reported at the Naval Academy doubled during the 2010-11 academic year, as did the percentage of…
By Tony Perry, Los Angeles Times SAN DIEGO — A federal judge Wednesday awarded $17.8 million to the survivors of four family members killed when a Marine Corps jet crashed into…
By Brian Slodysko, Chicago Tribune – CHICAGO — Setting off a new round in his dispute with gay right activists, Chicago’s Cardinal Francis George has issued a statement defending his recent…
By Michael A. Memoli, Tribune Washington Bureau WASHINGTON — Gary Johnson ended his long-shot bid for the Republican presidential nomination Wednesday, announcing instead that he’ll continue his quest for the White…
By Paul West, Tribune Washington Bureau NEWTON, Iowa — Returning to Iowa, where polls show him contending for first place in next week’s caucuses, Ron Paul studiously ignored a barrage of…
WASHINGTON — Across the United States, gangs threaten public safety in neighborhoods and communities. “Transnational gangs are a worldwide problem, not confined to any single country,” said Mark Selby, unit…
Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich arrived in Mason City Wednesday morning at about 10:30 am and addressed a large crowd at Southbridge Mall. Gingrich, a former Speaker of the House in…
A Tuesday afternoon traffic stop of a suspended driver on Main Street by Cerro Gordo County Sheriff’s Deputy Frank Hodak led to an arrest on multiple drug charges for a…
A traffic stop shortly before 2:30am near the intersection of 2nd Street Northeast and North Connecticut Avenue led to an arrest on two felony drug charges for an 18-year-old Mason…
NEW YORK — Leonard Johnson, Jeremy Reeves and the rest of Iowa State’s defensive backfield have covered most of college football’s best wide receivers in some fashion this year. There…
By Michael A. Memoli, Tribune Washington Bureau WASHINGTON — Rick Perry is taking his fight to get on the Virginia primary ballot to the courts, challenging the constitutionality of the commonwealth’s…
By James Oliphant, Tribune Washington Bureau – OSCEOLA, Iowa — Rick Perry, in the midst of a furious late-stage effort to finish strongly in next week’s GOP Iowa caucuses, said at…
By Jim Puzzanghera, Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama nominated a former Treasury official from the George H.W. Bush administration and a Harvard economist to fill two vacancies on…
By John M. Glionna and Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times SEOUL, South Korea — On a snowy, overcast day, North Korea bid farewell to “Dear Leader” Kim Jong Il and ushered…
Graphic showing how the Iowa caucuses work for Republicans and Democrats.…
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