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by Jody Spear and Kelly Meyer – MASON CITY – The River City Dames of Anarchy versus the Dakota City Demolition Crew Bout was played at the All Seasons Center at the
By Anita Kumar and David Lightman, McClatchy Newspapers – TAMPA, Fla. — Mitt Romney worked to make his voice heard above the roar of a tropical storm Sunday, striking back at President Barack
By Jacqueline Charles, Juan Tamayo and Jim Wyss, The Miami Herald – PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti —The death toll in Haiti and the Dominican Republic continued to rise Sunday, as authorities struggled to recover form
By Dan Wiederer, Star Tribune (Minneapolis) – MINNEAPOLIS — The ending came quietly. On New Year’s Day, after 13 seasons, Jim Kleinsasser played his final NFL game, spending the three last hours plowing
By David Enders, McClatchy Newspapers – ANTAKYA, Turkey — A weeklong government siege of a rebel-occupied Damascus suburb has killed at least 371 people, including 122 whose bodies were reportedly found in a
By Colleen Mastony, Chicago Tribune – RUSHVILLE, Ill. — Stepping into the office of Dr. Russell Dohner feels like a trip back in time. At his one-man practice, the phones are rotary, the
By Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times – ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Wind-whipped Republicans bracing for Tropical Storm Isaac received a mild lashing of a different sort Sunday from one of party’s most
By Michael Finnegan, Los Angeles Times – TAMPA, Fla. — With tens of thousands of Republicans gathering in Florida for the party’s national convention, former Gov. Charlie Crist tossed a political stink bomb
From an anonymous NIT reader: (In response to Historic Park Inn operator Steve Noto’s statements about the financial performance of the hotel and its contributions to Mason City’s economy.) I suppose you
by Jody Spear, Kelley Meyer and other NIT Staff – MASON CITY – Mason City fire fighters responded to a fire at 1008 15th St. NE Sunday morning around 10:20 AM. Smoke
Tracie Mauriello, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – TAMPA, Fla. — Flag-carrying guests were welcomed with raucous Libertarian tunes, $6 draughts and vendors offering everything from $1 temporary tattoos to $500 cruise tickets. The Republican
On Saturday, August 25, 2012, at approximately 3:19 a.m., Waterloo Police Officers were dispatched to the 500 block of Reed St. on the report of shots fired. A short time later a
On Wednesday August 22, 2012 around 8:00pm, Officers with the Waterloo Police Department’s Violent Crimes Apprehension Team (VCAT) made contact at 1104 Williston in regard to a weapons investigation. While at the residence
By Tina Susman, Los Angeles Times – NEW YORK — The man who shot to death a former colleague in midtown Manhattan and then took aim at police never fired at the
From Senator Amanda Ragan – One of the most rewarding things about being your State Senator is the conversations I have with young people who are getting involved in our democracy for
By Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune – CHICAGO — In the days before his wife and children were shot to death, Christopher Vaughn dropped thousands of dollars at a strip club, stayed out
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) today announced that the University of Iowa will receive $266,500 for the first year of two three-year grants through the Graduate Assistance in Areas of
By Ronald D. White, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — The worst U.S. drought in more than half a century has rallied critics of the federal renewable fuel standard, which will reserve
By Tyler Dunne, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel – GREEN BAY, Wis. — In Buffalo, chemistry was years in the making. In Indianapolis, same deal. After thousands of snaps with the same receivers, Jim
By David Lightman, McClatchy Newspapers – TAMPA, Fla. — Will the Republican National Convention be viewed, at least at the start, as Isaac’s convention as much as it is Mitt Romney’s? The
By La Velle E. Neal III, Star Tribune (Minneapolis) – ARLINGTON, Texas — Brian Duensing didn’t think Ian Kinsler got all of his 1-1 changeup in the first inning, but it ended
DAVENPORT, IA – On August 23, 2012, Richard Westmoreland Mathias, age 45, of Mount Pleasant, Iowa, was sentenced to 60 months imprisonment for conspiring to manufacture at least 100 marijuana plants and
By Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — Animal Planet’s new reality show “Law on the Border” follows the K-9 unit of the Nogales Police Department as members “wage war”
WASHINGTON — Last week, Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) announced a $26.6 million grant to the Iowa Department of Public Health to support the establishment of a statewide Affordable Insurance Exchange, a strategy
By Laura King, Los Angeles Times – KABUL — A NATO airstrike in eastern Afghanistan has killed a senior Pakistani Taliban leader, his deputy and about 10 other insurgents, the Western military
MASON CITY – Beginning Monday August 27, 2012 at 7:00 AM, the Mason City Utility Division will begin Water Main repairs on S Monroe Ave. S Monroe Ave will be closed from
By Scott Collins, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — With the Democratic and Republican national conventions just days away, there’s already suspense behind the camera: CNN is staring down one of
By Tom Haudricourt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel – PITTSBURGH — There’s no way to know how Shaun Marcum would have fared in his return to the Milwaukee Brewers’ starting rotation without a miscue
By Chuck Barney, Contra Costa Times – Soap operas might be falling by the wayside, but that doesn’t mean daytime television is lacking drama. This fall, no fewer than five chatty contenders
By Jim Utter, The Charlotte Observer – BRISTOL, Tenn. — It was a blast of Bristol past. With cars running a line on the track unseen since the early 1990s thanks to
By Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press – OAKLAND, Calif. — One by one, they hobbled to the sideline with some body part in a state of disrepair. First it was a shoulder,
By Rene Rodriguez, The Miami Herald – Opening Wednesday: LAWLESS (R): Tom Hardy, Shia LaBeouf and Guy Pearce are some of the bootleggers and lawmen trading bullets over moonshine during Depression-era Virginia.
LINCOLN, Neb. – The Iowa State soccer team dropped its first match of the 2012 season Sunday with a 1-0 defeat to No. 16 Virginia Tech. The Hokies’ Shannon Mayrose produced the
By Rebecca Keegan, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — Hangovers, breakups, Katy Perry lyrics — millennials are notorious for posting information online that older generations find either too personal or too
By Derrick Goold, St. Louis Post-Dispatch – CINCINNATI — If Friday offered the Cardinals an opportunity to flex their offense and inch closer to the division-title discussion, then consider Saturday Cincinnati’s sharp
By Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune – Spike Lee’s movies generally attempt too much, try too many things, canvass a larger array of characters and situations than even a loosely structured story line
MASON CITY, IOWA – United Way of North Central Iowa would like to thank community members for donating to the Shoe Drive. Without your support, the Shoe Drive would not have been
By Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times – MEXICO CITY — Mexican authorities said Saturday that they had questioned a dozen federal police agents to try to find out why Mexican police ambushed
By Richard Winton and Harriet Ryan, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — Summoned to a couple’s San Fernando Valley condominium last spring, police officers heard a sad but familiar tale. The
by Jody Spear and Kelly Meyer – MASON CITY – “Scoobie Doo just loves coming to these kind of things, he really loves baths,” said Scoobie’s owner Dawn Gourley. “We try and