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By Dave van Dyck, Chicago Tribune – CHICAGO — So this was the way it was supposed to go when the new regime was making plans for its first Cubs team: Good pitching
By Joe Christensen, Star Tribune (Minneapolis) – MINNEAPOLIS — Twins newcomer Ryan Doumit was searching for the right word Monday after the team fell to 0-4 while scoring a whopping six runs in
By Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel – CHICAGO — The Miami Heat went into Thursday night seeking change. They wound up only with the manufactured type. (PHOTO: The Chicago Bulls’ Luol Deng guards the Miami Heat’s LeBron James (6) in first-quarter
By Lesley Clark and David Lightman, McClatchy Newspapers – WASHINGTON — It was the gift Mitt Romney has been seeking — and it came from a Democrat. Democratic strategist Hilary Rosen’s comment Wednesday
By David Enders, McClatchy Newspapers – BEIRUT — Syrian government forces appeared Thursday largely to have ended their attacks on anti-government strongholds, adhering to a United Nations-brokered cease-fire. But the United States, France
By Frances Robles, McClatchy Newspapers – SANFORD, Fla. —George Zimmerman went from 45 days of being a hunted man in seclusion to eating Jolly Ranchers and killing time with puzzle books in a
SACRAMENTO, Calif. – United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced that Daniel Richard Garcia, 30, of Fairfield was sentenced today by United States District Judge Lawrence K. Karlton to 35 years in
DALLAS — Following her guilty plea in May 2011 to one count of wire fraud and one count of arson, Marthella Broadus, 37, was sentenced this afternoon by U.S. District Judge Jane
by Jody Spear and Kelly Meyer At approximately 11:45 a.m. Thursday, emergency units were dispatched to a one car rollover at the 190th Mile Marker on the Avenue of the Saints. Deborah
by Matt Marquardt – MASON CITY – It was a rough stretch for many businesses in the “Cultural Crescent” during Streetscape construction last year. New Beginnings clothes consignment shop didn’t escape the
DENVER — Earl Albert Moore, age 66, was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge John L. Kane to serve life in federal prison for use of a destructive device during and
A man who illegally possessed a firearm was sentenced April 9, 2012, to more than 4 years in federal prison. Sterling Clark, 21, from Fort Dodge, Iowa, received the prison term after
Montgomery, Alabama — United States Attorney George L. Beck, Jr. announced today that five individuals that were either members of or associated themselves with the Bloods street gang in Montgomery, Alabama have
FORT DODGE, Iowa – No. 4 Iowa Central swept NIACC for the second time in eight days, but the Trojans gave the Tritons a fight in game two during the 13-0, 9-7
By Rong-Gong Lin II, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — A magnitude-6.9 earthquake shook Baja California early Thursday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey reported, but no tsunami was expected to strike
By Dalina Castellanos, Los Angeles Times – Two illegal immigrants were shot to death by camouflaged gunmen northwest of Tucson in an incident evoking a pair of 2007 attacks, Arizona authorities said
By Maeve Reston, Los Angeles Times – HARTFORD, Conn. — As Mitt Romney continued his efforts to make inroads with women by bashing President Barack Obama’s record, his campaign’s hesitation about whether
By Christi Parsons and Seema Mehta, Tribune Washington Bureau – WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama plugged his plan to increase taxes on the wealthy yet again on Wednesday, but this time with
By David Enders, McClatchy Newspapers – BEIRUT — Syrian security forces on Wednesday undertook fewer military operations involving armor and heavy artillery ahead of Thursday’s cease-fire deadline but conducted raids and arrests
By Scott Hiaasen and David Ovalle, McClatchy Newspapers – MIAMI — Florida special prosecutor Angela Corey likely has an uphill climb to prove that George Zimmerman acted with the malicious intent required
By William E. Gibson, The Orlando Sentinel – WASHINGTON — The crusade to repeal or replace Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” law has gone national. State Sen. Chris Smith of Fort Lauderdale, Fla.,
MASON CITY – A Mason City man who was just released from Cerro Gordo County Jail on Monday after serving 15 days as part of a negotiated guilty plea in an unauthorized
By Mina Habib, The Institute for War & Peace Reporting – KABUL, Afghanistan — Given the state of relations between Tehran and Washington, it should have come as no surprise when Iranian
By Jeff Weiner and Rene Stutzman, The Orlando Sentinel – ORLANDO, Fla. — On a rainy night in February, George Zimmerman fired a single shot, killing 17-year-old Trayvon Martin and sparking an
MASON CITY – The River City RC club will be having their annual show at the Southbridge Mall in Mason City on April 14 and 15, 2012 from 9:00am to 5:00pm. The
MASON CITY – A Prayer for the Earth, a one-person exhibition by California artist Linda Vallejo, opens on Friday, April 13, at 9 a.m. in the Charles H. MacNider Art Museum’s Kinney-Lindstrom
By Blair Kerkhoff, McClatchy Newspapers – Hark, the sounds of spring football: Coaches barking, pads bashing, motorcycle s crashing. If we’re finished rubber-necking at the wreckage of a Harley and a coaching
By Jim Puzzanghera and Andrea Chang, Los Angeles Times – WASHINGTON — Former Apple Inc. Chief Executive Steve Jobs was a key player in a conspiracy with five major book publishers to
By Linda Loyd, The Philadelphia Inquirer – PHILADELPHIA — A radioactive compound that lights up plaques in the brain to help diagnose Alzheimer’s disease has been approved by the Food and Drug
By Todd Martens and Randall Roberts, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — This weekend, Cleveland’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame will throw its annual induction ceremony and concert to celebrate
By La Velle E. Neal III, Star Tribune (Minneapolis) – MINNEAPOLIS — Going through three consecutive seasons with elbow problems was enough for Twins righthander Scott Baker. “I guess the elbow has
By Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — The biggest enhancement to the fan experience at Pauley Pavilion will cost UCLA only a scholarship. Top prep prospect Shabazz Muhammad announced