Mitt Romney visits, prays with the Rev. Billy Graham
By Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times – ASHEVILLE, N.C. — GOP nominee Mitt Romney and the Rev. Billy Graham discussed policy and personal connections Thursday at a meeting at the evangelical leader’s
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By Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times – ASHEVILLE, N.C. — GOP nominee Mitt Romney and the Rev. Billy Graham discussed policy and personal connections Thursday at a meeting at the evangelical leader’s
By Christi Parsons, Tribune Washington Bureau – CORAL GABLES, Fla. — President Barack Obama cast the “new, latest version of Mitt Romney” as a salesman simply softening his image in an effort
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and John Thune (R-S.D.) continue to press for answers about a $249.1 million federal grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy through the controversial
October 11, 2012 Q. What do you expect from Eric May this year? COACH McCAFFERY: I think Eric is going to have a great year for us. He’s in great shape. He’s
By Daniel Brown, San Jose Mercury News – CINCINNATI — Technically, Tim Lincecum got the win on Wednesday. But as far as his San Francisco Giants’ teammates are concerned, he ought to
By John Lowe, Detroit Free Press – OAKLAND, Calif. — Five Detroit Tigers pitchers combined to get the ball to Jose Valverde for a ninth-inning save opportunity with a two-run lead Wednesday
By Matt Kawahara, The Sacramento Bee – OAKLAND, Calif. — The sea of green and gold swelled, clamoring for more to the story that it cheered without trying to explain. Written off
By Marc Narducci, The Philadelphia Inquirer – EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Matt Schaub admitted he enjoyed playing football relatively close to home on Monday night. The Houston Texans’ quarterback was ready to
By Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune – CHICAGO — There have been long hours for the Bears’ offensive coaching staff since Mike Tice took over at the end of January, more than the
MCALLEN, TX—Humberto Lopez-Cuevas, 27, a Mexican national illegally in the United States, has been handed a federal prison sentence for being a prohibited person in possession of firearms and silencers, United States
MASON CITY – Shannon Renae Lybarger of Mason City was booked into the Cerro Gordo County Jail at 1:28 pm, October 10th, 2012 on valid warrants after being picked up by Mason
LOS ANGELES, CA—Today, Attorney General Eric Holder, Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Shaun Donovan, FBI Associate Deputy Director Kevin L. Perkins, and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairman Jon Leibowitz announced the
New service provides crime victims and public real-time offender location notifications through IowaSexOffender.com website – DES MOINES, Iowa — Crime victims who want to know when a registered sex offender moves locations,
Wylie Treadway, 52, of Wyoming, drowned on Oct. 7, when he and Douglas R Berkhoff, 60, of Davenport, fell overboard when their 14-foot flat bottom rowboat overturned in a backwater on the
RED OAK, Iowa – Four Louisiana men face 76 counts and nearly $86,000 in fines and civil damages for allegedly killing five deer illegally in southwest Iowa last November. James Keith Moore,
by Jody Spear and Kelly Meyer – MASON CITY – A Hawaiian man has been charged in Mason City with urinating in public. Monday at about 2:45 pm, a call to the
By Eduardo A. Encina, The Baltimore Sun – NEW YORK — These Baltimore Orioles came to Yankee Stadium having won six of nine in the Bronx during the regular season — winning
(Mason City) – The Cerro Gordo County Department of Public Health, Iowa Department of Public Health and schools within the county are working together to provide free Tdap vaccine available this fall
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By Tina Susman, Los Angeles Times – NEW YORK—A former Peace Corps volunteer who admitted using his posting in South Africa to sexually abuse young girls at a center for children orphaned
By Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times – CAIRO — Egypt unveiled a proposed draft of a new constitution Wednesday amid criticism from liberals and human rights groups that the document is tilted
MASON CITY – On Monday, September 8th, 18-year-old Cody James Studer was sentenced after pleading guilty to driving while barred and a reduced aggravated misdemeanor count of eluding police. Originally Studer faced
By W.J. Hennigan, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — After two postponed attempts, daredevil Felix Baumgartner will try again to break the world’s free-fall record at 23 miles above Roswell, N.M.,
By Michael Doyle, McClatchy Newspapers – WASHINGTON — Conservative Supreme Court justices took aim at affirmative action Wednesday in a politically charged case that will likely determine what role race can play
By Eryn Brown, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES—Virologists making mutated versions of the H5N1 bird flu halted their research in January after a U.S. government advisory panel suggested that their work,
By James Rosen, McClatchy Newspapers – WASHINGTON — A federal court Wednesday upheld South Carolina’s voter ID law, overturning its rejection by the U.S. Justice Department. The three judges said their ruling
By Roger Moore, McClatchy-Tribune News Service – The writer-director of “In Bruges,” the playwright turned filmmaker Martin McDonagh, sells out and makes his first Hollywood film, “Seven Psychopaths,” a commentary on selling
By Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — If there were ever a genre referred to as “film maudit hot mess,” movies so irrepressibly wrong as to be irresistibly right,
By Alan Zarembo, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — Heart attack patients in states that require health care providers to report the outcomes of procedures to open blocked arteries are less
By Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — The woman whom Roman Polanski was convicted of sexually assaulting in Los Angeles when she was a teenager will pen a memoir
By Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Los Angeles Times – HOUSTON — An attorney for former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay attempted to convince a Texas appeals court Wednesday that DeLay’s 2010 felony conviction
By Roger Moore, McClatchy-Tribune News Service – Kid-friendly funnyman Kevin James is at his cuddliest in “Here Comes the Boom.” And he has to be. This amusing but sometimes unsettling comedy marries
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – A Mexican murder suspect captured in Charlottesville, Va., was removed from the United States late Friday and turned over to Mexican law enforcement officials by officers from U.S. Immigration
By Sandy Bauers, The Philadelphia Inquirer – PHILADELPHIA — A vaccine against cervical cancer, being developed by Inovio Pharmaceuticals Inc. of Blue Bell, Pa., produced positive results in a small sample of
FOREST CITY, IOWA, October 11, 2012 – Winnebago Industries, Inc. (NYSE:WGO), a leading United States (U.S.) recreation vehicle manufacturer, today reported financial results for the Company’s fourth quarter and fiscal year 2012.
By Lennart Simonsson – STOCKHOLM — U.S. researchers Robert J. Lefkowitz and Brian K. Kobilka on Wednesday shared the Nobel Chemistry Prize for their pioneering studies on cell receptors, which enable each
By Tiffany Hsu, Los Angeles Times – Get ready for more small Wal-Mart stores, and sooner. The mega-retailer known for its big-box strategy said it’s planning to speed up openings of its Neighborhood
By Ben Fritz, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — Stan Lee Media, an Internet company that shut down more than a decade ago and has been mired in litigation ever since, has
By Lindsay Wise, McClatchy Newspapers – WASHINGTON — One of the nation’s largest credit reporting agencies has agreed to pay $393,000 to settle charges that it improperly sold lists of consumers who were
Wesley Betts, an Iowa inmate being housed in a prison out of state under compact agreement, died in a nearby hospital at 9:21 p.m. Tuesday, October 9, 2012. Betts died of natural