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SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – The Missouri State Bears used a game-high 20 points and 10 rebounds from reigning Missouri Valley Conference Player of the Year Kyle Weems to a 63-51 win over…
By Bill Scott – MELBOURNE — Victoria Azarenka achieved a dream on Saturday as she defeated former champion Maria Sharapova, 6-3, 6-0, for the Australian Open title and took over…
By Blair Kerkhoff, McClatchy Newspapers – AMES, Iowa — Iowa State thought it owed Kansas, so Saturday’s 72-64 triumph over the fifth-ranked Jayhawks came as no great revelation to the Cyclones.…
By Kate Gibson, MarketWatch – NEW YORK — President Barack Obama on Saturday reiterated his call for an end to partisan gridlock in Washington and urged Congress to pass legislation to…
By Laura King, Los Angeles Times – KABUL — After France, the deluge? The announcement by French President Nicolas Sarkozy that his troops would sharply accelerate their departure from Afghanistan cast…
By Irmgard Rieger and Farshid Motahari TEHRAN, Iran — Officials from the United Nations nuclear agency arrived Saturday in Tehran for talks aimed at allaying concerns that Tehran is seeking…
MASON CITY – Shortly after 10 am Saturday morning, 29-year-old Kenneth Shaun Neilsen was booked into the Cerro Gordo County Jail on a serious misdemeanor charge of serious assault. Neilsen…
Diane Heldt, The Gazette, Cedar Rapids, Iowa – IOWA CITY — The University of Iowa has released some of the emails that were sent to journalism professor Stephen Bloom last month…
Steve Gravelle – The Gazette, Cedar Rapids, Iowa – Even as the state moves away from a county-based system of providing services to mentally handicapped and developmentally disabled (MHDD) Iowans, it’s…
Charles City Police Chief Mike Wendel said in an email that “2011 has been difficult for the police department.” According to its website, the Charles City Police Department consists of…
I want you to know that Kathy called me this morning to inform me of your passing; it saddened me terribly. Naturally I was hoping you would get to 101,…
Sunday Night Mixed Rose Bowl 01/22/12 Team High Series TEAM TWO 1556 Team High Game TEAM TWO 539 Individual High Series Male Doug Schaffer 653 Individual High Series Female Lorri…
Orlan Love, CR Gazette – CEDAR RAPIDS — For reasons ranging from personal security to “because I can,” the number of Iowans with permits to carry concealed weapons increased 154 percent…
AMES, Iowa – The Iowa State gymnastics team rallied past No. 23 Iowa 194.900-194.550 Friday night to clinch the 2011-12 Iowa Corn Cy-Hawk Series. After trailing following three rotations, the…
By Kacie Krominga – MASON CITY – Saving lives, and being rock star while doing it, or so to speak. The 9th annual “Blood Donors Rock” blood drive was held Friday…
From Representative Linda Upmeyer – January 27, 2011 – The Iowa House passed the first piece of legislation of the 2012 session this week. This bill illustrates our commitment to passing…
By K.C. Johnson, Chicago Tribune – CHICAGO — The Indiana Pacers lost in Boston on Friday night, so they couldn’t have been in a United Center hallway still celebrating their Wednesday…
By Kent Youngblood, Star Tribune (Minneapolis) – MINNEAPOLIS — There were 105 seconds left in Friday’s game when Kevin Love went to the basket off a pick-and-roll, took a sweet bounce…
By Alisa Priddle, Detroit Free Press – DETROIT — Success in North America fueled Ford’s most profitable year since 1998, but fourth-quarter losses and uncertainty in Europe and Asia spooked the…
DAVENPORT, IA – On January 26, 2012, Roger Dengler, age 55, of Davenport, Iowa, was sentenced to 78 months imprisonment for maintaining a drug house announced United States Attorney Nicholas…
By Kerith Gabriel, Philadelphia Daily News – There aren’t many moments in his mixed martial arts career Phil Davis regrets. Certainly not the opponents he has had to injure and embarrass…
By Andrew Blankstein and Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES — A woman who called 911 from Demi Moore’s home Monday night told officials the movie star was suffering convulsions…
By Diana Renee RIO DE JANEIRO — The death toll from the collapse of three buildings in central Rio de Janeiro climbed to seven, the authorities confirmed Friday after more…
By Peter Mayer ROME — Italian consumer rights groups were divided over a decision on Friday by the owners of the shipwrecked Costa Concordia to pay 11,000 euros —…
By Michael Muskal, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — A teenage girl who received an electronic warning was being praised as a hero Friday for tipping off authorities about what…
By Alaine Griffin, The Hartford Courant – NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Joshua Komisarjevsky was formally sentenced to death Friday for the home invasion attack that left Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her daughters,…
By Alana Semuels, Los Angeles Times – MIAMI — Rick Santorum joined the parade of GOP candidates seeking the Latino vote in South Florida on Friday, playing up his humble roots…
By Michael A. Memoli, Tribune Washington Bureau – WASHINGTON — After 20 long years in the public eye, Hillary Rodham Clinton can see the finish line. Sure, there likely will be…
(DES MOINES) – Gov. Terry Branstad today announced that he has appointed Janelle L. Niebuhr to the Iowa Public Employees Relations Board (PERB). “I am pleased today to appoint Janelle…
A Winter Extravaganza will be held on Saturday, February 4 from 1-4 p.m. at the Lime Creek Nature Center. Beat the winter blahs with an adventure-packed afternoon at Lime Creek!…
By Kevin G. Hall, McClatchy Newspapers – WASHINGTON — The lower-than-expected annualized growth rate of 2.8 percent reported Friday for the final three months of 2011 raises doubts about the strength…
Anthony Lonetree, Star Tribune, Minneapolis – A St. Paul man allegedly beat his wife for refusing to drink with him and then stepped on their infant son’s head, threatening to increase…
Duluth News Tribune, Minn. Jan. 27–At least a dozen guns went missing from the Pine County Sheriff’s Office between 2008 and early 2011. Prompted by citizen complaints that firearms were…
By Jessica Guynn and Walter Hamilton, Los Angeles Times – MENLO PARK, Calif. — Wall Street is about to get Facebook fever. The social networking giant with nearly 1 billion users…
By Mike Carter, The Seattle Times – SEATTLE — The exploits of Colton Harris-Moore, the gangly “Barefoot Bandit” who as a wily thief and self-taught pilot managed to elude police with…
By Christi Parsons and Kathleen Hennessey, Tribune Washington Bureau – ANN ARBOR, Mich. — President Barack Obama embraced the idea of federal action to restrain the rapidly increasing cost of higher…
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