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By Bryan Burwell, St. Louis Post-Dispatch – ST. LOUIS — The unfathomable audacity of the family of the late Joe Paterno is beyond offensive. It’s sickening. It’s distasteful. However long it takes
By Patrick J. McDonnell and Alexandra Sandels, Los Angeles Times – BEIRUT — An audacious bombing aimed at the heart of Syria’s feared security services killed three high-ranking officials in Damascus and
By Tiffany Hsu, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — American builders last month began construction on the highest number of new homes since October 2008, with housing starts jumping 6.9 percent in
By Scott Powers, The Orlando Sentinel – ORLANDO, Fla. — University of Central Florida scientists have discovered a new planet outside our solar system that is the closest Earth-size planet ever discovered.
By La Velle E. Neal III, Star Tribune (Minneapolis) – MINNEAPOLIS — Francisco Liriano’s past 10 starts have been reminders of what he once was and, perhaps, a hint of what he’s
By E. Scott Reckard, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — Bank of America Corp. downsized its way to a profitable second quarter, shedding high-risk loans and cutting costs in reporting earnings of
By John Smallwood, Philadelphia Daily News – WASHINGTON — OK, so the back-and-forth among Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan and Charles Barkley about whether the 2012 USA men’s Olympic team could have defeated the
by Matt Marquardt – MASON CITY – Lindsay Ralston has been grooming pets in Mason city for 7 years. With the closing of her former employer, Feathers N More, in June, she
By Alex Kane Rudansky, McClatchy Newspapers – WASHINGTON — Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, completing his second day of testimony on Capitol Hill, voiced his opposition Wednesday to a Republican-backed bill that would
MASON CITY, IOWA — Main Street Mason City, a non-profit organization dedicated to the betterment and preservation of downtown Mason City, plans to host an installment of its annual “Friday Night Live”
Henry Pierson Curtis, The Orlando Sentinel, Fla. – KISSIMMEE – The investigation of the American Front neo-Nazi group in Osceola County grew out of an FBI domestic terrorism investigation of ties between Florida motorcycle clubs and white
IOWA CITY, Iowa – The University of Iowa women’s basketball team will face Northern Illinois in the first round of the 2012 Preseason Women’s National Invitation (WNIT) Tournament on Friday, Nov. 9.
By Matthew Schofield, McClatchy Newspapers – WASHINGTON — With both a tradition of helping service members get their votes counted as well as a tight turnaround between its primary and general elections this
AMES, Iowa – As Iowa’s corn crop grows taller, motorists are urged to use extra caution at roadway intersections and railroad crossings where the driver’s view may be obstructed. Iowa Department of
David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Devante Fortune, also known as “Pooty,” 20, of New Haven, was sentenced today by Senior United States District Judge