Gunderson sentenced to 15 years in death of Kadyn Halverson
Tim Engstrom, Albert Lea Tribune, Minn. – NORTHWOOD, Iowa — The man charged with the fatal hit-and-run of a young girl boarding a school bus last May has been sentenced to 15 years
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Tim Engstrom, Albert Lea Tribune, Minn. – NORTHWOOD, Iowa — The man charged with the fatal hit-and-run of a young girl boarding a school bus last May has been sentenced to 15 years
Prepared Floor Statement of Senator Chuck Grassley – I addressed the Senate recently on President Obama’s so called “recess” appointments when the Senate was not in fact in recess. I described at
By Kate Gibson, MarketWatch – NEW YORK — U.S. stocks on Friday finished mostly lower, but a late surge in financial shares helped the S&P 500 preserve a fourth week of gains after
By Jared S. Hopkins, Chicago Tribune – CHICAGO — The UFC might draw its largest television audience Saturday in Chicago when Rashad Evans faces Phil Davis. Before that, Rob Madrigal will face his
By Raheem Salman and Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times – BAGHDAD — A suicide car bomb detonated Friday at a busy Baghdad intersection as a funeral procession was passing by, killing 32
Hastings, IOWA — Investigators with the State Fire Marshal Division and the Mills County Sheriff’s Office are looking for 30 year old Jason Anthony Vasquez. Vasquez is wanted on an arrest warrant
By Kacie Krominga – MASON CITY – A press conference for the United Way was held today at the North Iowa Joint Transit Facility to announce the grand total for the 2011
Early Bird Mixed 1/20/12 High team scratch game – K O Construction 788 High team scratch series – K O Construction 2,213 High Individual games 1. Chad Elliott 247 2. T C
by Matt Marquardt – The Mason City City Council met Tuesday night and was introduced to Finance Director Kevin Jacobson’s 2013 city budget. The room was full of city department directors. A
There is a select few that are calling the shots in this community. They do not represent the majority but in doing what they are doing is not in anyway illegal. You
Michael Schaffer, Daily Iowegian, Centerville, Iowa – CENTERVILLE Between 250-300 people came to the Centerville Fire Department Thursday afternoon to take part in placing 2,200 American flags along the route the body
Scott Dochterman, The Gazette, Cedar Rapids, Iowa – IOWA CITY — The game meant something to Zach McCabe. That’s why the final result hurt him so much. The Iowa sophomore from Sioux City
Diane Heldt, The Gazette, Cedar Rapids, Iowa – The University of Iowa has spent more than $6.3 million on dozens of tenant properties since 2001, the majority of them in the Melrose Avenue
Rod Boshart, The Gazette, Cedar Rapids, Iowa – DES MOINES – An already weird story took another bizarre twist Thursday when representatives for a trust based in Belize that turned in the winning
FORT DODGE, Iowa – No. 12 NIACC wrestling only had two wins against No. 1 Iowa Central on Thursday night in a 41-9 loss to the Tritons. Jameel Bryant’s (So., St. Petersburg,
Rod Boshart, The Gazette, Cedar Rapids, Iowa – A roundup of legislative and Capitol news items of interest for Thursday, Jan. 26: MOTOR VEHICLE ENFORCEMENT: Branstad administration officials said Thursday they are making
By David Hiltbrand, The Philadelphia Inquirer – “Luck,” HBO’s new series about a racetrack in Southern California, has such impressive bloodlines, it’s almost intimidating. Among its executive producers are filmmaker Michael Mann (“Heat”)
By Reggie Hayes, The News-Sentinel (Fort Wayne, Ind.) – INDIANAPOLIS — Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay expressed some irritation with quarterback Peyton Manning’s comments earlier this week about the atmosphere around the Colts.
AMES, Iowa – Jan. 27, 2012 – The Iowa Department of Transportation (DOT) will hold a public information meeting Thursday, Feb. 9, to discuss the proposed bridge repair on U.S. 218, 0.4
AMES, Iowa – Jan. 26, 2012 – The Iowa Department of Transportation (DOT) is offering a pole building with metal siding for sale. The building is located at 2369 U.S. 30, west
By Booth Moore, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — With a lifetime of red carpet misses ranging from uncomfortably busty Guinevere gowns to something reminiscent of Grandma’s doily tablecloth, Disney princess Miley
By Jim Puzzanghera and Alejandro Lazo, Los Angeles Times – WASHINGTON — Two new initiatives from President Barack Obama to address the foreclosure crisis — more help for struggling homeowners and aggressive investigations
By Shari Roan, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — A new study showing an estimated 7 percent of American teens and adults carry the human papillomavirus in their mouths may help health
By David Zucchino, Los Angeles Times – DURHAM, N.C. — Danny Robbie Hembree considers himself a gentleman of leisure. He enjoys color TV, air conditioning and abundant food. He naps pretty much whenever
United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that Jose Espinoza, 33, of Omaha and Grand Island, Nebraska, was sentenced on January 19, 2012, to 27 years in prison by the Honorable United
WASHINGTON – The lead administrator and the web host of an online child pornography bulletin board were sentenced today to 120 and 97 months in prison, respectively, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny
By David Owens, The Hartford Courant – BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — Police and U.S. Marshals in Florida have taken a former Connecticut resident into custody on charges that he used an ax to kill
WASHINGTON – Paul Beebe and Jesse Sanford of Farmington, N.M., were sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Santa Fe, N.M., on federal hate crime charges related to a racially-motivated assault on
By Kevin Diaz, Star Tribune (Minneapolis) – WASHINGTON — Talking for the first time about her political future since she dropped out of the presidential race, Rep. Michele Bachmann said Wednesday that she
A man who possessed child pornography pled guilty on January 17, 2012, in federal court in Cedar Rapids. Timothy Wilker, age 48, from West Branch, Iowa, was convicted of one count of
By Nathaniel Popper, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — Much of Mitt Romney’s millions has come from his relationship with the biggest name on Wall Street: Goldman Sachs. In the personal tax
By David Lightman and Lesley Clark, McClatchy Newspapers – ORLANDO, Fla. — The winner of Florida’s bruising Republican presidential primary probably will be the candidate who uses traditional mass-marketing tools such as advertising,
By Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — When a guy steps onto a narrow ledge, many stories above a messy bit of New York City asphalt, you figure it is
By David Lightman and Steven Thomma, McClatchy Newspapers – JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Mitt Romney blasted as “repulsive” Newt Gingrich’s criticism of his views on immigration, as the two Republican presidential candidates engaged in
By David S. Cloud, Tribune Washington Bureau – WASHINGTON — The Pentagon released a budget blueprint Thursday that cuts projected military spending by nearly half a trillion dollars, yet still calls for increasing
By Jim Puzzanghera, Los Angeles Times – WASHINGTON — The Obama administration’s new effort to investigate the causes of the nation’s mortgage meltdown will focus on coordinating the often overlapping state and federal
by Dave Hansen – NOTE: Due incorrect information supplied by KRIB the radio remotes from the surf featuring Bob Hale will not begin on Wednesday of this week. Instead they are scheduled to
As registration opens today for the second annual Iowa Ladies Football Academy, set for June 9, the event’s organizers have announced a five-year, $1 million pledge toward the construction of the new