Chrysler reports best quarterly profit in years
By Jerry Hirsch, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — Chrysler Group LLC reported its third consecutive quarterly profit and logged its best financial performance in more than a decade, a turbulent
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By Jerry Hirsch, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — Chrysler Group LLC reported its third consecutive quarterly profit and logged its best financial performance in more than a decade, a turbulent
By Laura King and Aimal Yaqubi, Los Angeles Times – KABUL, Afghanistan — Violence across Afghanistan killed at least 18 people in 24 hours, officials said Thursday, including an American service member
By Tony Perry, Los Angeles Times – SAN DIEGO — The blood of Brittany Dawn Killgore was found in the car of Marine Staff Sgt. Louis Perez, a prosecutor said Thursday as Perez
By Alfonso Chardy, McClatchy Newspapers – CARTAGENA, Colombia — In the early hours of April 12, the booze flowed and a thumping techno rumba shook the walls at Tu Candela, a popular
by Matt Marquardt – MASON CITY – “One man think tank” Ozzie Ohl was busy Thursday putting the final touches on his “Food Fun & Frank” sculpture to benefit the Hawkeye Harvest
by Matt Marquardt – MASON CITY – Tuesday in Mason City’s Central Park, the annual Walk a Mile in Her Shoes event was held to promote sexual assault awareness. Th event was
By Kent Youngblood , Star Tribune (Minneapolis) – An indication of how this season went for the Timberwolves: Their most important game this month didn’t actually involve them. That game was Utah’s
By Daniel Brown, San Jose Mercury News – NEW YORK — Along with being the first pick in the NFL draft, Andrew Luck is keeping a busy schedule in the Big Apple,
By Steve Chawkins, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — Strange, jellyfish-like creatures swarming a coastal nuclear power plant: It might sound like the premise of a cult horror flick, but the
On Monday, April 23rd, 26-year-old Chelsea Lee Meinecke was sentenced in Cerro Gordo County District Court for her distribution of Lortab during an investigation by the North Iowa Drug Task Force that
By Richard Simon, Los Angeles Times – GREENSBORO, N.C. — After days of salacious testimony about a mistress, a love child and naked political ambition, John Edwards’ criminal campaign finance trial focused
IOWA FALLS, Iowa – NIACC softball has broken through. The NIACC Trojans won their first conference game of the season during game two in a split with Ellsworth, 3-4 and 9-3. Beth
James Q. Lynch, CR Gazette – DES MOINES – Hopes for the Iowa Legislature adjourning this week gave way to the reality of fiscal and philosophical differences that already have kept lawmakers
By Julie Cart, Los Angeles Times – The American public is divided about whether to eliminate federal subsidies for any form of energy and is giving less support to nuclear power and
Rod Boshart, CR Gazette – Declines in pheasant and deer numbers, wildlife habitat and interest among young people are threatening a hunting industry in Iowa that advocates said Wednesday generates $288 million
By Tiffany Hsu, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — Burger King Corp. promised Wednesday to switch to only cage-free eggs and pork — a day after the re-emergence of mad-cow disease
(Mason City, Iowa)- The Mason City Jaycees will once again be holding a Sandbox Fill the morning of Saturday, May 5, 2012. The Jaycees will deliver wheelbarrow-loads of sand right to the
By Don Lee, Tribune Washington Bureau – WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve upgraded its outlook for the economy, predicting the unemployment rate would fall to as low as 7.8 percent in the
By Jessica Guynn, Los Angeles Times – SAN FRANCISCO — As it closes in on 1 billion users, Facebook Inc. has formed partnerships with five security software outfits to crack down on
By La Velle E. Neal III, Star Tribune (Minneapolis) – MINNEAPOLIS — There is no doubt that, this week, the Twins have been very good for Boston’s ego. The Red Sox came
CHARLES CITY – Governor Terry Branstad will attend the Mitas Tire grand opening in Charles City on Thursday, April 26. The event begins at 10 a.m. The plant is located at 1200