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By Jon Bream, Star Tribune (Minneapolis) – MINNEAPOLIS — LMFAO are silly, and they know it. They’re also smart and resourceful. In the past year, the Los Angeles electro-pop duo has catapulted from
North Iowa Area Community College (NIACC) Community Education and the Osage Chamber of Commerce are planning a unique day on Saturday, June 9. Destination Osage will provide participants with an opportunity to
By Rene Rodriguez, McClatchy Newspapers – THE INTOUCHABLES (R): Acclaimed drama from Belgium centers on the relationship between a quadriplegic (François Cluzet) and the young man (Omar Sy) he hires as his caretaker.
By Kate Thomas – JOHANNESBURG — South Africa and Australia will share the location for the world’s largest and most powerful radio telescope, the Square Kilometre Array scientific consortium said on Friday.
Torsten Ove, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – A suspended Catholic priest will spend at least five years in federal prison after pleading guilty Wednesday to possessing and receiving thousands of child porn images on his
Mike Harrington, The Buffalo News, N.Y. – (Through Thursday night’s games, last week in parentheses) 1 Los Angeles Dodgers. Great SI cover shot with Kemp and Magic. (1) 2 Baltimore Orioles. Jones’
By Tiffany Hsu, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — A California woman has brought a class-action suit against Procter & Gamble Co., accusing its Olay Regenerist line of anti-aging products of false
By Nicole Goodrich, Medill News Service – WASHINGTON — Hispanic voters are a crucial constituency in the presidential election, but reaching young Hispanics will require new tactics — and some experts say
By Rick Bentley, McClatchy Newspapers – Other than the setting, there’s little about “Chernobyl Diaries” to distinguish it from all of the other horror films where a group of good-looking people find themselves
By Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — Every day, about 3,800 American kids try a cigarette for the first time. A thousand of them will grow up to have a
From City hall: City offices will be closed on Monday, May 28, in observance of Memorial Day. City transit buses will not be operating on that day. The make-up day for garbage
By Patrick J. McDonnell and Rima Marrouch, Los Angeles Times – BEIRUT — The blood-spattered children lay on a patterned rug, their wounds graphic proof that youth offers no protection from the dark
by Matt Marquardt – MASON CITY – Reports are coming in of multiple arrests today in the East Park area. One source reported that up to 9 juveniles have been arrested Saturday.
Whatever it was meant to be, the Main Street crowd pissed in the Chili. They have fail miserably to mediate an accord between those in charge of operating the Historic Park Inn
Kathy Lynn Gray, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio – U.S. District Judge Peter C. Economus was not swayed by the apologies and admission of guilt by a man who collected child pornography and secretly
Robert Gavin, Times Union, Albany, N.Y. – ROTTERDAM — A Colonie man who taught at a Tae Kwon Do martial arts school in Duanesburg has been charged with raping a child on two
Peter Nickeas, Chicago Tribune – Three people were killed and five others wounded in shootings across the city Friday night, according to authorities. Two people were found dead inside a Woodlawn home in the 6500
Bo Emerson and Craig Schneider, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution – Atlanta attorney Rand Csehy made his mark prosecuting drug dealers; somewhere along the way, police say, he joined the enemy. Before he was arrested
John Mangalonzo, The Hawk Eye, Burlington, Iowa – A Burlington woman authorities said had a sexual relationship with a teenage boy, has accepted an agreement from Des Moines County prosecutors. Lynsey Rae-Ann Brobston
Michael Anderson, The Hawk Eye, Burlington, Iowa – Burlington’s request to have the debt from the purchase of the Dresser-Rand complex forgiven was turned down last Friday. The plea to the Board for
Christopher Snowbeck, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn. – One woman says she was asked to pay hundreds of dollars while hooked to a morphine drip in the emergency room. Another patient who arrived
Mara H. Gottfried, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn. – It wasn’t the first time the big dog had attacked a child. Before biting the face of an 18-month-old girl this week in St.
James Q. Lynch, CR Gazette – JOHNSTON – Iowa Ag Secretary Bill Northey grudgingly endorsed a gas tax increase if no other way to can be found to pay for maintaining the
by Jody Spear and Kelly Meyer – MASON CITY – Despite the late afternoon rain shower, and the threat of more, the first night of Band Fest at East Park was a
MASON CITY – Saturday morning at about 2:13 AM a Mason City resident in the 200 block of 27th Street SW heard someone attempting to make entry into his home. The resident
by Jody Spear and Kelly Meyer – MASON CITY – North Iowa’s women’s flat track roller derby team, the River City Dames of Anarchy, have a home bout Saturday night. With the
By David Sarno, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — As the public joined the frenzy around Facebook Inc.’s Wall Street debut, well-connected institutional investors were hearing a more sobering message: The social
By John Horn, Los Angeles Times – Moviegoers may be impressed by “Snow White and the Huntsman’s” computer-generated trolls, flying fairies and mythical beasts. But it could be Colleen Atwood’s complicated, handmade costumes
Iowa residents may fish without a license on June 1, 2 and 3 as part of the Iowa Department of Natural Resources free fishing weekend. Free fishing weekend is the first weekend
by Matt Marquardt – MASON CITY – Troy Levenhagen of the famous Suzie Q restaurant is one of the few local vendors participating in this year’s Band Fest in East Park, and
By Scott Powers, The Orlando Sentinel – ORLANDO, Fla. — The SpaceX rocket that launched a spacecraft to the International Space Station also carried the cremated remains of 320 people, including former Mercury
By Meg James and Joe Flint, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — Fox Broadcasting Co. has sued Dish Network, becoming the first television network to fire a legal salvo over the satellite
By Don Lee, Tribune Washington Bureau – WASHINGTON — The Obama administration may be getting tougher with China on trade, but its approach in dealing with Beijing on the thorny currency issue remains
By Deborah Netburn, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — The research institution that brought you the fax machine and GPS has come up with another potentially world-changing invention: a bottle coating so
By Scott Collins, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — It was a great night for Phillip Phillips, but for “American Idol,” maybe not so much. Phillips, a husky-voiced troubadour, conquered Season 11
North Iowa Area Community College is offering an accelerated GED Math and Writing Academy on the NIACC campus. “The Academy is for people who want to concentrate on these two subjects in
By Randall Roberts, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — The winner has been declared. A nation has decided, and we went to bed on Wednesday finally knowing that American Idol No. 11
By Sara Smith, McClatchy Newspapers – Revenge is served cold. Sometimes it’s served piping hot. And it’s served again and again, until the gunmen retreat into the foggy woods. Over six hours that
George C. Ford, CR Gazette – The latest report on car loan delinquencies shows more Iowans and consumers nationwide are making their monthly payments on time. Chicago-based TransUnion said less than 0.50
By Michael Muskal, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — Two female soldiers are suing the Department of Defense and the Army to end policies prohibiting women from serving in a combat role.