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By Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune – CHICAGO — You can question the decision by Lovie Smith to go for it on fourth-and-1 in the second quarter and pass on a field…
WATERLOO – Shortly after 2am on Sunday, December 2, 2012, Waterloo Police responded to Allen Memorial Hospital on a report of a shooting victim. The victim was identified as 22…
Saturday’s results RICEVILLE 34, BELMOND-KLEMME 23 BK 7 10 4 2 – 23 Riceville 4 10 5 11 – 34 BELMOND-KLEMME – Taylor Walrod 1, Mackenzie Tenold 4, Olivia Kuhlers…
Des Moines, Iowa – On Saturday, Progress Iowa and local organizations joined about two dozen Iowa taxpayers at Sen. Chuck Grassley’s office in Des Moines to sing “Fiscal Cliff Carols”…
By Mark Craig, Star Tribune (Minneapolis) – Kevin Williams is kind of like the family pet. One minute, he’s the young pup romping around Lambeau Field as a starter in his…
By K.C. Johnson, Chicago Tribune – CHICAGO—From the moment Joakim Noah tipped home Kirk Hinrich’s miss 28 seconds after Saturday night’s tipoff, the Chicago Bulls’ emotional leader worked himself into a…
MASON CITY – Three males were arrested early Sunday morning for burglary. Mason City police located a vehicle in the Asbury neighborhood at about 4:14 AM Sunday and three North…
Scott Dochterman, CR Gazette – MCNUTT ACTIVATED Former Iowa wide receiver Marvin McNutt realized a dream this week when he was activated to the Philadelphia Eagles’ 53-man roster. McNutt, who…
Michael Bonner, CR Gazette – CEDAR FALLS – Nate Buss describes himself as a stone faced basketball player. Saturday night, Northern Iowa witnessed a different Nate Buss. With UNI trailing…
INDIANOLA – NIACC’s Basil Minto and Shakheim Chapman both claimed individual titles at the Simpson College Invitational Saturday. Minto, a sophomore from Cape Coral, Fla., won the 184-pound title. Chapman,…
AMES, Iowa – Roger Aaron Brandenburg, 46, of Farley, entered a plea of guilty Oct. 18, 2012, in Dubuque County court to one count of operating as a motor vehicle…
By Barbara Demick and Jung-Yoon Choi, Los Angeles Times – BEIJING — North Korea announced Saturday that it will send a long-range rocket into space this month, trying to make up…
By Neela Banerjee, Tribune Washington Bureau – WASHINGTON — The loss of ice covering Greenland and Antarctica has accelerated over the past 20 years, contributing substantially to sea level rise, according…
SANTA ANA, CA—A federal grand jury today indicted former professional baseball player Doug DeCinces and three of his associates on insider trading charges for allegedly using non-public information regarding a…
By Eryn Brown, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — The Grand Canyon may be much older than widely believed, according to a new study that challenges the view that the…
By David Lightman and Jack Brammer, McClatchy Newspapers – WASHINGTON — Day after day in the last month, Mitch McConnell’s angry words, aimed squarely at Democrats and their “hard left” constituency,…
By William Douglas and Lesley Clark, McClatchy Newspapers – HATFIELD, Pa. — The key players in a looming budget crisis talked to news cameras Friday rather than to each other, each…
By Sheera Frenkel, McClatchy Newspapers – JERUSALEM — Israeli officials had long known that they would be on the losing end of the U.N. General Assembly’s vote on whether to grant…
By Maria Recio, McClatchy Newspapers – WASHINGTON — Fifty years after the Kennedy administration started a small-scale effort to place American art in embassies overseas, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on…
Orlan Love, CR Gazette – The state’s deer population, in decline since 2006 in response to hunters’ intensified efforts to kill does, is down another 10 percent this year, according…
Gregg Hennigan, CR Gazette – The City Council will discuss next week whether plastic grocery bags should be banned in Iowa City. City staff twice this fall has recommended against…
DES MOINES – Nearly 1,000 confinement site manure applicators may need to complete their annual training requirements by Dec. 31 according to the DNR. “It’s not too late for applicators…
MASON CITY – The Mason City Community Policing Advisory Board is sponsoring a Christmas Craft Show & Bake Sale for the North Iowa Youth Center on Saturday, December 8th from…
PORTLAND, OR—Today, Rebecca Jeanette Rubin, age 39, a Canadian citizen, surrendered herself into FBI custody at the international border in Blaine, Washington, to face federal arson, destructive device, and conspiracy…
WASHINGTON—Twenty-nine people were arrested today following their indictments on federal charges in connection with an ongoing investigation by the Cross Border Task Force into a network that distributed heroin, crack…
By Tracy Wilkinson, Richard Fausset and Brian Bennett, Los Angeles Times – MEXICO CITY — In the six years of outgoing President Felipe Calderon’s war against drug gangs, the U.S. became…
By Peter Delevett, San Jose Mercury News – Dave Morin isn’t easily star-struck. The early Facebook employee is a close confidant of Mark Zuckerberg, and when Morin left the social networking…
By Bob McGinn, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel – GREEN BAY, Wis. — The malaise dulling the once-prolific offense of the Green Bay Packers even has affected one of the team’s staples for…
By Ed Meyer, Akron Beacon Journal – AKRON, Ohio — The first defendant to plead guilty in the unsuccessful plot to blow up the state Route 82 bridge was sentenced Friday…
By Gregory Karp, Chicago Tribune – Eight. That’s how many emails are in my Microsoft Outlook inbox at this moment. How is that possible when I, like millions of cubicle dwellers…
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…
By Dan Wiederer, Star Tribune (Minneapolis) – Yes, there’s an intense stretch coming for the Vikings, one that includes this afternoon’s treacherous trip to Lambeau Field. Vegas pegs the Packers as…