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Today marks the one year anniversary of the death of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent (SA) Jaime Zapata who was shot and killed…
(DES MOINES) – Gov. Terry E. Branstad today addressed the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) U.S.-China Agricultural Symposium. The following is Gov. Branstad’s speech, as prepared for delivery this…
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa – Preston Brunz scored 22 points for #2 Kirkwood in a 100-58 win over the NIACC Trojans Wednesday night. Devan Douglas added 11 points for the Eagles,…
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa – The fourth-ranked Kirkwood women outscored NIACC 48-11 in the second half during an 82-36 rout of the Trojans. Aisle Quinlan led the Eagles in scoring with…
IRVING, Texas -The Iowa State men’s basketball team produced a league-high four players on the 2012 Academic All-Big 12 team, the conference office announced today. Scott Christopherson, Melvin Ejim and…
AMES, Iowa -Iowa State head coach Paul Rhoads announced the hiring of former North Carolina secondary coach Troy Douglas Thursday, citing Douglas’ quarter of a century in collegiate coaching, with…
AMES, Iowa – Chelsea Poppens scored 17 points and grabbed 12 rebounds and Hallie Christofferson added 14 points as Iowa State pulled away in the second half for a 66-47…
Kevin Diaz, Star Tribune, Minneapolis – WASHINGTON – A broadly popular bill by Minnesota Democrat Amy Klobuchar to outlaw synthetic recreational drugs across the nation has run into an increasingly common…
Dave DeWitte, The Gazette, Cedar Rapids, Iowa – Rockwell Collins unveiled newly expanded and renovated offices in Canada’s capital of Ottawa on Tuesday. The Ottawa facility specializes in design and development…
MASON CITY – Mason City police are still seeking a bank robbery suspect. The police investigation of a February 3rd bank robbery in downtown Mason City ties Emily Elizabeth Francis,…
James Q. Lynch, CR Gazette – DES MOINES – The Iowa House approved what supporters said called a $1.2 billion property tax relief plan that its detractors warned would cost…
K.J. Pilcher, CR Gazette – IHSAA STATE DUALS TOURNAMENT At Wells Fargo Arena (Des Moines) Wednesday CLASS 1A Quarterfinals #8 West Branch 40, #1 Clarion-Goldfield 24 #5 Underwood 41, #4…
Gregg Hennigan, The Gazette, Cedar Rapids, Iowa – DES MOINES —Chinese buyers made commitments Wednesday to buy $4.3 billion worth of U.S. soybeans in the upcoming market year. The event in…
(DES MOINES) – The following message is a pool report from Xi Jinping’s visit to a farm just outside Des Moines, Iowa / written by Kyle Munson of The Des…
by Matt Marquardt – A team of North Iowa lobbyists arrived in Washington, D.C. Wednesday. The lobbyists, (pictured in U.S. Representative Tom Latham’s office on Capitol Hill) include Mason City…
MASON CITY – The Mason City Police Department held a ceremony Wednesday honoring one of their own. Officer Rick Ott (pictured, with award) was selected as the 2011 recipient of…
Early Bird Mixed 2/10/12 (4 person team) High team scratch game – Yo-Yo’s 737 High team scratch series – Budweiser 2,071 High Individual games 1. Tim Lewis 255 2. Terry…
ALEXANDRIA, VA – The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) released the results of its latest survey regarding the number of registered sex offenders located in the U.S.…
Rochelle Olson, Star Tribune, Minneapolis – The Minnesota Vikings are staying put in Minneapolis for at least another year. If the team wanted to move to another city, it would have…
Jim Adams, Star Tribune, Minneapolis – The firing of a Hastings police officer for texting about sex with a female bar employee whom he met while on duty, arresting her ex-boyfriend…
WASHINGTON—The Department of Justice announced today that three men were sentenced for a federal hate crime stemming from an incident that took place at Beekman Junior High School in Beekman,…
MINNEAPOLIS — In federal court, a 27-year-old man from Westerville, Ohio pleaded guilty to conspiring to provide money and personnel to al Shabaab, a designated foreign terrorist organization based in…
Donald Tosti was sentenced to eight years in prison and ordered to pay $50,000 in restitution for possessing child pornography. Tosti was convicted on Sept. 14, 2011, on two charges…
By Steven Thomma, McClatchy Newspapers – WASHINGTON — Once assured of victory on friendly turf, Mitt Romney faces a potentially devastating loss of his home state of Michigan to Rick Santorum,…
By Patrick J. McDonnell and Ramin Mostaghim, Los Angeles Times – BEIRUT — Iran on Wednesday heralded what it called a pair of significant advances in its controversial nuclear research efforts,…
Baird Helgeson, Star Tribune, Minneapolis – In a move designed to stoke the state’s fragile economic recovery, Minnesota Republican legislators are pushing hard on a proposal to phase out statewide business…
Paul Walsh, Star Tribune, Minneapolis – Five members of a professional lacrosse team visiting from New York state were arrested following an outburst with other patrons at a Bloomington restaurant that…
By Jim Puzzanghera, Los Angeles Times – WASHINGTON — The agency protecting consumers in the financial marketplace plans to increase its budget 26 percent next year as it ramps up to…
WASHINGTON – A Massachusetts man was sentenced today in Los Angeles to 60 months in prison, followed by 20 years of supervised release, for conspiracy to distribute child pornography, announced…
MCT FORUM – By Benny Morris, Los Angeles Times – Most people in the Arab world, according to opinion polls, believe that the Holocaust never happened, that it’s a Jewish invention and…
EVANSVILLE, Ind. – Evansville’s Denver Holmes banked in a 3-pointer with 0.6 seconds left to lift the Purple Aces to a 63-62 win over the University of Northern Iowa on Wednesday…
by Matt Marquardt – MASON CITY – The Mason City Park Board met Tuesday night and heard concerns about the MacNider Campground. One concern the board heard was of long-term…
By Kent Youngbloodm Star Tribune (Minneapolis) – MINNEAPOLIS — In this compressed, post-lockout NBA season, where games come fast and furious, practice time is rare. So you have to make the…
By Pete Caldera, The Record (Hackensack N.J.) – NEW YORK — Jeremy Lin’s game-winning shot from Tuesday night was a staple of every sports highlight package, though the author of that…
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