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By K.C. Johnson, Chicago Tribune – CHICAGO — One of Tom Thibodeau’s favorite sayings — “We have more than enough to win” — applies no matter the injury, no matter the circumstance.
By Patrick Kevin Day, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — Melissa Gilbert is recovering from the mild concussion and whiplash she sustained on the set of “Dancing With the Stars” on
By Thomas Lee and Paul Walsh, Star Tribune (Minneapolis) – MINNEAPOLIS — An investigation into personal misconduct led to the sudden resignation of Best Buy CEO Brian Dunn, the electronics retailer acknowledged
By Wallace Witkowski, MarketWatch – SAN FRANCISCO — U.S. stocks had their worst day of the year Tuesday on anxiety leading up to earnings season and as government bond yields for Spain
By Jim Puzzanghera, Los Angeles Times – WASHINGTON — Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could save $1.7 billion by reducing the amount that some underwater homeowners owe on their mortgages, according to
By David Enders, McClatchy Newspapers – BEIRUT — A U.N.-sponsored plan to end the violence in Syria got off to a rocky start Tuesday, with Syria’s foreign minister claiming that soldiers had
By Rosalio Ahumada, McClatchy Newspapers – MODESTO, Calif. — A prosecutor on Tuesday convinced a judge that a former Modesto high school teacher is a flight risk after authorities learned of his
By Marc Caputo and Patricia Mazzei, McClatchy Newspapers – BOCA RATON, Fla. — President Barack Obama came to South Florida on Tuesday to raise money from millionaires and ask them to pay
By Thomas Fitzgerald, The Philadelphia Inquirer – PHILADELPHIA — Most presidential candidates would have brushed aside the young woman’s challenge, perhaps mumbling something polite about agreeing to disagree. Not Rick Santorum, on
By John Reitmeyer, The Record (Hackensack N.J.) – HACKENSACK, N.J. — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie took another tax-cutting budget victory lap on Tuesday, pitching his economic recovery message to an audience
WEBSTER CITY, Iowa – NIACC’s men’s golf team earned their first win of the spring season by one stroke over Kirkwood at the Ellsworth Invitational at Brigg’s Woods Golf Course on Tuesday.
WEBSTER CITY, Iowa – Sarah Steinauer (Fr., Clarinda, IA) recorded an 82 at Briggs Woods Golf Course to win the Ellsworth Invitational on Tuesday. Steinauer shot 39 on the front nine and
ALGONA, Iowa – Bishop-Garrigan standout and All-State selection Emily Bell has committed to playing for NIACC basketball for the 2012-2013 season. Bell earned Iowa Newspaper Association 1st-Team All-State and Iowa Girl’s Coaches
IOWA CITY, Iowa — The University of Iowa baseball team rallied to beat Western Illinois Tuesday night at Duane Banks Field on a game-winning bases loaded walk in the bottom of the
By La Velle E. Neal III, Star Tribune (Minneapolis) – MINNEAPOLIS — It didn’t take long for the Twins’ starting pitching depth to be tested — and to expose the one area
A “For Seniors Only” program will be held on Thursday, April 12 from 10 a.m. – Noon at the Lime Creek Nature Center. Guest speaker Dr. Jim Pease will present “The Wild
By Jeremy Roebuck and Amy Worden, The Philadelphia Inquirer – PHILADELPHIA — Now it’s Romney vs. Obama. With that in mind and a bruising primary fight finally behind him, Mitt Romney bathed
By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times – LAS VEGAS — In what authorities are calling the first confirmed suicide at the new Hoover Dam bypass bridge, a 60-year-old woman leaped to
By Rene Stutzman and Jeff Weiner, The Orlando Sentinel – SANFORD, Fla. — Like two worried parents with a wayward child, George Zimmerman’s lawyers stood puzzled in front of the Seminole County
By Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times – GETTYSBURG, Pa. — Rick Santorum’s decision to leave the Republican presidential race boosted two candidacies: Mitt Romney was spared two more weeks of struggle before
By Neela Banerjee, Tribune Washington Bureau – WASHINGTON — Tennessee enacted a law Tuesday that critics contend allows public school teachers to challenge climate change and evolution in their classrooms without fear
MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine military said two people were killed Wednesday by a bomb in a passenger bus the southern region. Five people were also wounded in the explosion in the