Iowa’s payouts spike with film credit deals
Rod Boshart, CR Gazette – Judgments paid by the state of Iowa spiked to nearly $13.2 million last fiscal year as attorneys negotiated settlements to resolve claims and disputes caused by employee
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Rod Boshart, CR Gazette – Judgments paid by the state of Iowa spiked to nearly $13.2 million last fiscal year as attorneys negotiated settlements to resolve claims and disputes caused by employee
Christinia Crippes, The Hawk Eye, Burlington, Iowa – There is bipartisan consensus among Iowa’s federal delegation that the across-the-board budget cuts expected to happen at the end of the year should not go
By Stacy St. Clair, Chicago Tribune – CHICAGO — If Stacy Peterson hadn’t vanished, the past few years would have turned out much differently for her husband. It was her suspicious disappearance
By Maggie Clark, Stateline.org – WASHINGTON — Robert Holbrook is serving a life-without-parole sentence in Pennsylvania for participating in a robbery that escalated into murder on his 16th birthday. He agreed to
McClatchy-Tribune News Service – The following editorial appeared in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: ——— There was a time early on in the Internet revolution when it made sense to give fledgling online
McClatchy-Tribune News Service – The following editorial appeared in the Los Angeles Times: ——— As Americans speculate about why a young man in Colorado allegedly engaged in a nightmarish shooting rampage in
By Jim Souhan, Star Tribune (Minneapolis) – LONDON — Alexey Shved wears braces on his teeth and a band in his hair. As he spoke late Sunday night in London, he twisted his
By Amy Kaufman, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — “The Dark Knight Rises” may have soared to the top of the box office for the second consecutive weekend, but the Batman film
John Bohnenkamp, The Hawk Eye, Burlington, Iowa – CHICAGO – The new dean of Big Ten football coaches didn’t have a crowded table in the first hour of the second day of the
By Dave Kallmann, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel – INDIANAPOLIS — First, a refresher course. Jimmie Johnson won the NASCAR title each year from 2006-’10. He won stock-car racing’s most prestigious event, the Daytona 500,
by Jody Spear and Kelly Meyer – MASON CITY – One Mason City business is doing its part to help in the search for two missing Evansdale, Iowa girls who went missing
By Sheera Frenkel, McClatchy Newspapers – JERUSALEM — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney vowed Sunday to stand with Israel against any threat from Iran, eager to show that he’s a better friend than
By Patrick J. McDonnell and Rima Marrouch, Los Angeles Times – BEIRUT — Syrian guns pounded rebel positions in Aleppo on Sunday, as panicked residents streamed from the besieged city and the opposition
By Matt Stevens and Kate Mather, Los Angeles Times – ANAHEIM, Calif. — Tempers continued to flare in Anaheim on Sunday afternoon as a group of about 250 protesters stood directly in front
By Adam Belz, Star Tribune (Minneapolis) – MINNEAPOLIS — It sounded like a routine assignment for HRST Inc., a quick trip across the Canadian border for repair work on a power plant. Two
The Yomiuri Shimbun – TOKYO — Akihiko Hoshide used a robotic arm to grab the Kounotori 3 cargo spacecraft late Friday, then docked it with the International Space Station, becoming the first
By Jim Utter, McClatchy Newspapers – INDIANAPOLIS — Is NASCAR ready for Jimmie Johnson to win a sixth Sprint Cup Series championship? How about a record-tying seventh, or even a record-breaking eighth? Johnson
By La Velle E. Neal III, Star Tribune (Minneapolis) – MINNEAPOLIS — Twins lefthander Brian Duensing wants to prove to the coaching staff that he can make adjustments and be an effective starter.
By Joe Strauss, St. Louis Post-Dispatch – CHICAGO — Few pitchers are more familiar with the Cardinals — and the Cardinals with him — than Chicago Cubs short-arming lefthander Paul Maholm. He has
By Chip Scoggins, Star Tribune (Minneapolis) – MANKATO, Minn. — Percy Harvin exploded off the line and tried to get Antoine Winfield to bite on a fake during a 1-on-1 drill in the