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by Matt Marquardt – I hope the MCPD is watching. Just today artists from around the region came to Mason City to personally help install their sculptures on limestone pedestals in the
IOWA CITY – The Iowa Corn Cy-Hawk Series Football Trophy is accompanying the Iowa State Cyclone football team to Iowa City this afternoon and will be displayed on the Iowa State sidelines
by Matt Marquardt – MASON CITY – A Bettendorf man was arrested early Friday morning after an altercation at a Mason City bar. Mason City police responded to an incomplete 911 call
Washington, DC- Congressman Steve King released the following statement today in response to the U.S. Department of Labor’s August jobs report. The report states that the national unemployment rate is 8.1 percent,
Vanessa Miller, CR Gazette – Streets surrounding the University of Iowa’s Pentacrest have been closed and buses have been parked to create a barricade to the Old Capital lawn along Clinton Street
Mike Hlas – CR Gazette – Sports has its constants. Like cheaters winning the Tour de France. And grown men pushing children out of their way to pursue foul balls at big-league
By Stefan Korshak – MOSCOW — The world economy’s center of gravity is shifting away from Europe and the United States towards Asia Pacific countries such as China and Russia, President Vladimir
By Alex Rodriguez, Los Angeles Times – ISLAMABAD — A judge on Friday ordered the release on bail of a young Christian girl jailed for allegedly desecrating the Quran, a decision that
By David Pierson, Los Angeles Times – BEIJING — At least 50 people were killed after a pair of earthquakes jolted a mountainous region of southwestern China on Friday, damaging thousands of
By Don Lee, Tribune Washington Bureau – WASHINGTON—In a broadly disappointing economic report, U.S. employers added a smaller-than-expected 96,000 jobs in August as manufacturers cut back their payrolls and government continued to
by Jody Spear – MASON CITY – Bronze Sculpture Artist, Felix Velez, was downtown in the Commerce Center explaining his “Gymnastic Force” sculpture that will be added in a couple weeks by
by Matt Marquardt – MASON CITY – Mayor Eric Bookmeyer took time out of his day Friday to volunteer for the Meals on Wheels program at Mercy Hospital. “It’s always fun,” the
Marc Morehouse, CR Gazette – 2-Minute Drill IOWA STATE (1-0) at IOWA (1-0) IOWA RUSH OFFENSE VS. ISU RUSH DEFENSE For as funky as it was with pass protection, Iowa’s offensive line
By Mark Morris and Judy L. Thomas, The Kansas City Star – KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Once relatively anonymous in the Catholic world, the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph on Thursday made
By Kevin G. Hall, McClatchy Newspapers – WASHINGTON — A closely watched jobs report that the federal government will release Friday will get more scrutiny than usual, as it falls on the
By Maeve Reston, Los Angeles Times – PORTSMOUTH, N.H.—President Barack Obama and his challenger Mitt Romney will return Friday to the states where the presidential race began, crisscrossing paths as they both
By Robin Abcarian, Los Angeles Times – CHARLOTTE, N.C. — It was an important moment in Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign, and it involved a betrayal of sorts: The Kennedys, America’s most
MASON CITY – Mason City police officer Noah Friese arrested wanted Beje Clark escape Billy Lee Jaime Huerta shortly before 5 PM on Labor Day in the 700 block of North Pierce
Lafayette, LA – The Lafayette Police Department and The U.S. Marshals Violent Offender Task Force are seeking assistance and information from the public as to Carl J. Phillips’s location. Phillips is wanted
By Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Los Angeles Times – A military judge in Texas ruled Thursday that Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the Army psychiatrist charged in the 2009 Fort Hood shooting rampage, must be
Allie Shah, Star Tribune (Minneapolis) – The largest naturalization ceremony in Minnesota history took place Thursday at the Minneapolis Convention Center. About 1,500 people from 100 countries took the Oath of Allegiance,
Washington – The U.S. Marshals Service is selling a luxury motor home, one of Rita Crundwell’s assets, via an online auction starting Tuesday. The auction for the 2008 Liberty Coach Motor Home
Des Moines, IA – On Friday, August 31, 2012, the U.S. Marshals Southern Iowa Fugitive Task Force requested the public’s assistance in the search for convicted sex offender Courtney Cortez Chestnut, 29,
WASHINGTON – Louis Barretta, 48, of Philadelphia, pleaded guilty today to participating in a racketeering conspiracy involving loan sharking and illegal gambling, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice
WASHINGTON – Joshua Schichtel, 30, of Phoenix, was sentenced today to 30 months in prison for selling command-and-control access to and use of thousands of malware-infected computers, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny
By Kate Mather, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — Two more cases of hantavirus infection have been linked to Yosemite National Park, one fatal and the other believed to have originated
By Alan Zarembo, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — A doctor who deemed his 85-year-old dementia patient fit to drive bears no responsibility for her fatal car accident in 2010, an
By Eloisa Ruano Gonzalez, Orlando Sentinel – ORLANDO, Fla. — Lake County, Fla., is being asked to confront its racist past as the families of three of the four black citrus pickers
By Mary MacVean, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — Popular children are more likely to smoke cigarettes, according to new research. The conclusion, published Wednesday in the Journal of Adolescent Health,
By Dominic Gates, The Seattle Times – SEATTLE — Boeing has finally turned over the first of three 787s to Air India at its North Charleston, S.C., assembly complex, the company said
By Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times – CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, a one-time Republican turned independent, savaged the GOP ticket on Thursday, telling a friendly Democratic audience that
By Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune – CHICAGO — Andrew Luck called the Bears’ defense he will face in his NFL debut Sunday in Soldier Field “historically great.” Luck doesn’t need a primer
MASON CITY – At-large councilman Scott Tornquist partially revealed long-standing personal relationships with the owners of Metalcraft at Tuesday night’s council meeting before voting “yes” on an incentive plan that could be
by Jody Spear and Kelly Meyer – CLEAR LAKE – Emergency Units were dispatched to a serious two vehicle accident involving a motorcycle, at 5:47 PM Thursday. The accident occurred at 10536
By Don Lee and Henry Chu, Los Angeles Times – WASHINGTON — The European Central Bank unveiled an aggressive plan to buy the bonds of financially flailing countries such as Spain and
By Scott Collins, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — The crowd may have loved Bubba, but he was no match for football. Former President Bill Clinton gave a rousing, 45-minute oration
By Amy Kaufman, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — On what is traditionally the slowest moviegoing weekend of the year, only one film has a shot at crossing the lowly $10
By Nicole Sperling, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced that stunt performer Hal Needham, documentarian D.A. Pennebaker and arts advocate George
By Meredith Blake and Gerrick Kennedy, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — Winning a Video Music Award may not carry the same cachet as a Grammy, but for 28 years MTV’s
By Dan Wiederer and Mark Craig, Star Tribune (Minneapolis) – MINNEAPOLIS — Adrian Peterson continues making it clear, both to the outside world and to everyone within the Vikings’ organization, that he