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IOWA CITY, Iowa — A pair of University of Iowa men’s swimming and diving team school records fell during the second day of the Hawkeye Invitational. Freshman Roman Trussov and…
By Glenn Rice, Randy Covitz and Kevin Collison, The Kansas City Star – KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher on Saturday morning shot and killed his girlfriend…
By Tonya Alanez, Sun Sentinel – POMPANO BEACH, Fla. — Placing toilet paper imprinted with President Barack Obama’s face in a fire station has led to a Florida firefighter’s termination. It…
By Tony Perry, Los Angeles Times – Two bandits walked into the Victoria’s Secret store in a downtown shopping center crowded with Christmas shoppers this week and stole about 300…
Post-game interview with Iowa basketball coach Fran McCaffery: Q. Talk about Melsahn Basabe’s performance today. COACH McCAFFERY: What he was was very aggressive. That’s what we need him to be.…
Scott Dochterman, CR Gazette – IOWA CITY — The newbies have so much to learn, and yet they’re learning so quickly in their first few weeks of college basketball. Iowa’s…
GARNER – A Klemme man was arrested for failure to comply with sex offender registry. Octavio Alonzo, 23, was arrested by the Hancock County Sheriff’s Office on Thursday, November 29th,…
AMES, Iowa – The No. 18 Cyclones (22-7, 13-3 Big 12) are moving on to the Sweet 16 after taking down No. 24 North Carolina (26-6, 16-4 ACC) in their…
PA – President Obama speaks to the American people from a busy factory floor in Pennsylvania about the urgent need to pass the middle class tax cuts, which will give…
By Larry Oakes and Curt Brown, Star Tribune (Minneapolis) – COLD SPRING, Minn. — The body of police officer Tom Decker returned home Friday evening in a white hearse, escorted…
Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Mary Galligan, the Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal…
JACKSONVILLE, FL—U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Corrigan today sentenced Joshua Jay Williamson (24, Jacksonville) to five-and-a-half years (66 months) in federal prison and a 10-year term of supervised release for…
By Kent Youngblood, Star Tribune (Minneapolis) – MINNEAPOLIS — The excuses were there, waiting. Kevin Love was sick with the flu, a game-time decision. He played, but he wasn’t himself. Andrei…
By Desiree Stennett, Orlando Sentinel – ORLANDO, Fla. — Joe Dorrity of Newark, N.J., was sleeping next to his father on an Amtrak train from New York to Florida when he…
MASON CITY – Allison Josephine Kiroff walked out court Monday, November 26th, getting no jail time after sentencing in her newest felony. Kiroff has become accustomed to plea bargains, suspended…
U.S. Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a McLaughlin man charged with sexual abuse of a child was sentenced on November 26, 2012, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.…
HOUSTON — Late Wednesday night special agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) recovered a toddler who had been separated from her mother during a…
By Harvy Lipman, The Record (Hackensack, N.J.) – HACKENSACK, N.J. — Ten more businesses are being sued by New Jersey for alleged price gouging in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy. The…
Elinor J. Brecher, The Miami Herald – When Mathew Milewski’s new puppy, Molly, arrived by plane from Arkansas on Nov. 11, 2011, her paperwork included a note from the folks at…
By Marie G. McIntyre, McClatchy Newspapers – QUESTION: One of my co-workers, “Andrea,” was recently promoted to a higher-level position. I applied for the same job, but was never even…
GUADALAJARA, ME—A Los Angeles man charged with multiple homicides in Los Angeles and listed in 2009 as one of the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives was taken into custody after…
By Richard A. Serrano, Tribune Washington Bureau – WASHINGTON — A nomadic medical technician who wandered in and out of hospital jobs from the desert Southwest to New England was indicted…
By Chris Adams, McClatchy Newspapers – WASHINGTON — The time needed to process veterans’ disability claims shot up by nearly 40 percent last year despite years of effort by federal officials…
By Andrea Chang, Los Angeles Times – We’ve all received them — cheesy holiday greeting cards and party invites with messages like, “Ho ho hope you have a very merry Christmas.”…
By Julie Cart, Los Angeles Times – The federal government cleared the way Thursday for waters off the Northern California coast to become the first marine wilderness in the continental United…
By Edmund Sanders, Los Angeles Times – JERUSALEM — Following a landmark United Nations vote upgrading the status of the Palestinian territories to become a “nonmember observer state” in the international…
OAKLAND, CA—Helen Jean Singh (née Kearney) was sentenced yesterday to nine years in prison for conspiracy to commit sex trafficking, United States Attorney Melinda Haag announced. Singh, 22, pleaded guilty…
By Steve Alexander, Star Tribune (Minneapolis) – QUESTION: I am a contemporary ballroom DJ and have been looking in vain for software that can copy .WAV format music files and a…
CHICAGO—LaShawn K. Ford, an Illinois State Representative who also invested in real estate in Chicago, was indicted today on federal bank fraud and related charges for allegedly fraudulently obtaining a…
From the Iowa DNR – Iowa’s first shotgun deer season opens Dec. 1, and while optimism for a successful hunt is the primary focus, hunters are encouraged to brush up…
IOWA CITY, Iowa — University of Iowa freshman Olivia Kabacinski sprinted to a school record in the 50 freestyle during the opening day of the Hawkeye Invitational on Friday at the…