Barney and DeJesus lift Cubs, who are trying to avoid 100 losses
By Dave Van Dyck, Chicago Tribune – CHICAGO — This Cubs-Cardinals rivalry isn’t quite what it used to be, as shown when only 29,100 tickets were sold for Friday’s 5-4, 11-inning Cubs’
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By Dave Van Dyck, Chicago Tribune – CHICAGO — This Cubs-Cardinals rivalry isn’t quite what it used to be, as shown when only 29,100 tickets were sold for Friday’s 5-4, 11-inning Cubs’
By William Douglas and David Lightman, McClatchy Newspapers – WASHINGTON — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Friday released income tax returns showing that he and wife, Ann, paid an effective tax
By Mike Anton and Kate Mather, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — It was an air show to end all air shows, a spectacle that saw California crane its collective neck
Marc Morehouse, CR Gazette – IOWA CITY — Part of the “get to know Mark Weisman” process came earlier this week in a tweet from Iowa strength and conditioning coach Chris Doyle.
By Lisa Mascaro, Tribune Washington Bureau – WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney’s vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan was booed at the annual AARP convention after saying their Republican administration would repeal the nation’s
By Tresa Baldas and Jim Schaefer, Detroit Free Press – DETROIT — “Let’s get us some money.” “No deal without me.” “It’s my time to get paid.” “These are the words of
By Tina Susman, Los Angeles Times – NEW YORK — A man was in critical condition Friday after apparently leaping from a monorail into the tiger den at the Bronx Zoo, where
By Nancy A. Youssef and Suliman Ali Zway, McClatchy Newspapers – BENGHAZI, Libya — A protest Friday against Libya’s dependence on ragtag militias for security turned into an attack on militia headquarters
DES MOINES—The combination of cooler weather slowing evaporation rates and near normal rainfall in the past two weeks allowed soil moisture levels to slightly improve. However, streamflow conditions are below normal for
MASON CITY – Rival politicians Steve King and Christie Vilsack, battling for the newly-created Iowa Fourth District House of Representatives seat in Congress, will be in Mason City within the next few
MASON CITY – East State Street has been re-opened as progress continues between Kentucky and Illinois Avenues to replace sanitary manholes and perform modification to other utilities. A second contractor continues to
CLEAR LAKE – Clear Lake police and Cerro Gordo County Sheriffs are investigating a possible murder or suicide today. We are awaiting official word, but sources are telling NIT that a man
The summer drought means more trout for fall anglers. Through July and August, low stream flows and near triple-digit air temperatures meant several trout streams were dropped from stocking routes. Trout are
CAMDEN, N.J. – A former corrections officer with the Federal Bureau of Prisons was sentenced today to one year and one day in prison for accepting $3,600 in bribes in exchange for
Song Ja Cha, 70, a bar owner in Guam, was sentenced to life in prison today for her involvement in a sex trafficking scheme to force young women and one juvenile girl
A jury in Cleveland on Thursday convicted 16 people, all residents of Ohio, of federal hate crimes arising out of a series of religiously-motivated assaults on practitioners of the Amish religion, the
Council Bluffs, IOWA — A DCI investigation into the 2010 and 2011 general and city elections in Pottawattamie County has resulted in three individuals being charged with Election Misconduct (vote fraud), a
From U.S. Rep. Tom Latham – Alzheimer’s is a horrific and terrifying disease. It wreaks havoc on the mind, destroying memories and stealing one’s past. In the early stages of Alzheimer’s, patients
By Michael Doyle, McClatchy Newspapers – WASHINGTON — The CIA wants to keep its lethal drones secret, but the Obama administration keeps touting their successes. The resulting conflict could shed more light on
By Richard Simon, Los Angeles Times – WASHINGTON — Rarely does a proposed new national park run into this kind of opposition, but this one deals with the A-bomb. Legislation to establish the
By David Lightman and William Douglas, McClatchy Newspapers – WASHINGTON — The most disliked, unproductive Congress in decades planned to leave Washington this week until after the November election, departing without agreements on
By Alan J. Heavens, The Philadelphia Inquirer – PHILADELPHIA — If you tried to get a mortgage last year and failed, or were put through the wringer first, you are in good company.
By Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune – Mental gaffes have been part of the Cubs’ season from the start, causing Dale Sveum to shake his head in bewilderment. Starlin Castro forgetting the number of
By Chip Scoggins, Star Tribune (Minneapolis) – MINNEAPOLIS — As a high school football player in Cincinnati, Kyle Rudolph marveled at the way Tony Gonzalez and Antonio Gates ran wild through NFL defenses
By Colin Covert, Star Tribune (Minneapolis) – Jake Gyllenhaal plays good-natured LAPD officer Brian Taylor, whose ever-present video camera sets up the premise that we’re viewing a found-footage film. In the locker room
CHICAGO – A Polish national, who is wanted in his home country for manslaughter, was deported and turned over to Polish law enforcement officials Thursday by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE)
Andy Hoffman, The Hawk Eye, Burlington, Iowa – KEOKUK – A Keokuk man who claimed “bath salts” led him to kill his mother was sentenced to life in prison this week in Lee
By Tiffany Hsu, LA Times – LOS ANGELES — Arsenic is common in rice and popular rice-based products such as cereals, pastas, drinks and crackers, according to an investigation by Consumer Reports.
By Jim Buchta, Star Tribune (Minneapolis) – MINNEAPOLIS — Get ready, kids: Grandma’s moving in. Maybe Grandpa, too. That’s the hope, anyway, at the Bonaire housing development in Maple Grove, Minn., where the
By Monte Morin, Los Angeles Times – Feeling generous? Think it over a little and then see how you feel. While humankind has often judged itself as greedy and self-interested, a growing
By Don Lee, Tribune Washington Bureau – WASHINGTON — September is looking as if it’s going be another sluggish month of job growth. New claims for jobless benefits remained relatively high last week,
The Philadelphia Inquirer – AI WEIWEI: NEVER SORRY 3 1/2 stars. Philadelphia journalist Alison Klayman’s winning film debut is a transformative documentary about China’s most famous artist and dissident Ai Weiwei, who
By Joe Flint, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — The last new episode of “I Love Lucy” was broadcast over 50 years ago, but the classic sitcom is still a cash cow
#8 University of Northern Iowa at #3 Youngstown State Game #4: Sat. Sept. 22, 2012 6:05 p.m. (Central) Youngstown, Ohio :: Stambaugh Stadium Television: ESPN3 Radio: Panther Sports Network The Game The
By Christi Parsons and Seema Mehta, Tribune Washington Bureau – CORAL GABLES, Fla. — President Barack Obama defended his handling of the immigration issue Thursday at a town hall focused on Latino
By Mel Frykberg, McClatchy Newspapers – CAIRO — Libya’s second-largest city, Benghazi, was reported tense Thursday ahead of two major rallies called for Friday, one to show support for the United States
By Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune – The time-killing carnage in “Dredd 3D” can be assessed all sorts of ways. One depends on how much M-rated gaming you do as a matter of course.
By Richard Fausset, Los Angeles Times – MEXICO CITY — Six Mexican police have been assassinated in two separate incidents in the drug-battleground states of Durango and Tamaulipas, government officials reported Thursday.
By Jim Puzzanghera, Los Angeles Times – WASHINGTON — Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, a onetime Republican presidential candidate who was considered a finalist to be Mitt Romney’s running mate, was named
By Ben Fritz and Amy Kaufman, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — The horror film “House at the End of the Street” should top a crowded but rather lackluster weekend at the