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Time for reflection, the NO VOTE was predictable. (1st part) Possible Solution! (2nd part) Op-Ed by Otis Lewis The controversy surrounding the CES/ERS proposal to build a waste to energy facility in
ROSEMOUNT, Minn. – #17 Dakota County dropped the NIACC men’s basketball team 98-95 in overtime on Thursday night in a non-conference matchup. The Trojans came back from 10 points down with three
MASON CITY, I.A., February 3, 2012 – United Way of North Central Iowa (UWNCI) announced they have raised $1,160,342 in the recently completed 2011 campaign. This amount comes in 5.49-percent over the
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By Tim Kawakami, San Jose Mercury News – They’re the same teams, with the same coaches and quarterbacks, and they’ll wear the same uniform colors they did four years ago. Tom Brady and
By Carlos Arias, The Orange County Register – UFC welterweight contender Carlos Condit’s wife, Seager Marie, was a fight fan long before she met her husband. Her brother got her interested in mixed
By John Keilman and Susan Berger, Chicago Tribune – CHICAGO — An Illinois high school is cracking down on campus drug sales by confiscating the cellphones of student suspects and using their text
By Andrew Garber, The Seattle Times – OLYMPIA, Wash. — A bill legalizing same-sex marriage in Washington cleared its biggest legislative hurdle late Wednesday in a historic vote by the state Senate. After
By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times – SEOUL, South Korea — Rescue crews have saved at least 200 people from the water off Papua New Guinea’s northeast coast after a ferry sank
By Matt O’Brien, Contra Costa Times – WALNUT CREEK, Calif. — Jesse Gutierrez wants to help Latino voters find their niche in the Grand Old Party. He uses a seven-question survey to peg
By Richard A. Serrano, Tribune Washington Bureau – WASHINGTON — House Republicans investigating the Fast and Furious operation threatened Thursday to seek a contempt of Congress citation against Attorney General Eric H. Holder
By Maximilian Haupt – BERLIN — Six aid workers abducted in Yemen have been released unharmed, the German Foreign Ministry said in Berlin Thursday. The six, who were kidnapped by armed tribesmen
By Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times – MEXICO CITY — It was a mere $1.9 million, stuffed as brand new bills into two suitcases on a small jet traveling from the drug-rattled state
A Mason City man avoided having another burglary conviction added to his criminal record after a negotiated voluntary guilty plea two weeks before going to trial. 37-year-old Chad Jay Hutzell had faced
An 18-year-old Mason City resident must perform one hundred hours community service and complete three years of probation with the Iowa Department of Corrections after receiving a deferred judgment on a possession
by Matt Marquardt – MASON CITY – The North Iowa Landfill board voted down a long-term contract with Energy Recovery Specialists tonight. Click here to view photos. Due to the absence of
MASON CITY – Mason City police and fire personnel responded to a possible explosion and fire Thursday evening at around 5:50 p.m. at 910 13th Street SE. It was said that a
By Jerry Zgoda, Star Tribune (Minneapolis) – MINNEAPOLIS — The Timberwolves and Pacers went old school on Wednesday night in their throwback attire evocative of a defunct league that once popularized both the
By Steve Springer, Los Angeles Times – Angelo Dundee, who trained the two most celebrated fighters of his era, Muhammad Ali and Sugar Ray Leonard, and 15 world champions in all in a
By Amelia Rayno, Star Tribune (Minneapolis) – IOWA CITY, Iowa — Just when it seems like the Minnesota Gophers have found a new stride, they are knocked off their feet. After a striking
By Kent Youngblood, Star Tribune (Minneapolis) – ST. PAUL, Minn. — Wild coach Mike Yeo wants his team to dwell on what happened Tuesday night at Xcel Energy Center. OK, so maybe that’s
By Edmund Sanders, Los Angeles Times – JERUSALEM — An Israeli government minister said Thursday that Iran is developing a missile that could strike targets more than 6,000 miles away and thus would
By Richard Winton and Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — A veteran Los Angeles teacher charged this week with lewd acts on 23 children was also investigated in 1994 after
By Peter Stone, Center for Public Integrity – WASHINGTON — Billionaire casino tycoon Sheldon Adelson seems to be signaling his intention to plow millions more into conservative groups to influence this year’s elections,
By Jeannine Stein, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — Susan G. Komen for the Cure’s decision to stop giving money to Planned Parenthood for breast health services was not politically motivated, said
By Girlie Linao – MANILA, Philippines — Fifteen alleged members of militant groups linked to al-Qaida, including three suspected leaders, were killed Thursday in a pre-dawn airstrike on their hideout in the
By Jeffrey Fleishman and Asmaa Al Zohairy, Los Angeles Times – CAIRO — The coffins came down the hill in intermittent procession Thursday as families focused their rage on security forces for not
By Chuck Barney, Contra Costa Times – WALNUT CREEK, Calif. — All the world may be a stage, but Megan Hilty, one of the stars of NBC’s “Smash,” has been around long enough
Ames, Iowa – Feb. 2, 2012 – There were 364 fatalities on Iowa roadways in 2011: the lowest number of deaths since 1944, according to data from the Iowa Department of Transportation
by Matt Marquardt – MASON CITY – City Councilman Travis Hickey confirmed this afternoon that Brent Trout was not given direction from the council to attend and speak at tonight’s landfill board
MASON CITY, Iowa – Despite losing heavily in a pair of duals in the past two weeks, NIACC wrestling remained 12th in the latest NJCAA poll released on February 2. NIACC lost
Editorial by Matt Marquardt – As the Energy Recovery Specialists / landfill faceoff looms this evening, questions abound. It seems this game is getting nastier everyday, the train has run off the
BOONE – Monday’s temperature hitting the middle 60s followed by middle to upper 50s on Tuesday has reduced the amount and quality of ice in central and southern Iowa. With little ice
By Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times – BEIRUT — Russia remained firm Wednesday in its pledge to veto any U.N. Security Council resolution that could open the door for international military intervention
By Lisa Black, Chicago Tribune – CHICAGO — Hundreds of people turned out for funeral services Wednesday for Lyvita Gomes, a native of India who died after launching a hunger strike at Lake
By Noelle Phillips, McClatchy Newspapers – COLUMBIA, S.C. — A University of South Carolina senior is in jail after police charged him with throwing seven Molotov cocktails at buildings on campus and in
By Maria L. La Ganga, Los Angeles Times – LAS VEGAS — As the only Republican candidate for president to address Nevada’s oldest Latino political organization Wednesday morning, Rep. Ron Paul got high
By Steven Thomma, McClatchy Newspapers – LAS VEGAS — Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney engaged in a skirmish over the middle class with President Barack Obama’s campaign Wednesday, a preview of a
Washington, DC, Feb 1 – Iowa Congressman Tom Latham on Wednesday cautioned the White House to abandon any plans to close the Iowa Air National Guard’s 132nd F-16 Fighter Wing based in
By Nancy A. Youssef, McClatchy Newspapers – WASHINGTON — One of the Marines shown urinating on three corpses in Afghanistan in a widely distributed Internet video was the unit’s leader, two U.S. military