High speed chase ends with man being tazered
MASON CITY – Around 4:30 PM Thursday evening, a high speed chase was going on in the rural areas of north Cerro Gordo County. Iowa State Troopers and Cerro Gordo County Sheriff
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MASON CITY – Around 4:30 PM Thursday evening, a high speed chase was going on in the rural areas of north Cerro Gordo County. Iowa State Troopers and Cerro Gordo County Sheriff
by Jody Spear and Kelly Meyer – MASON CITY – Starting around 5:20 AM Thursday morning, a call to the Mason City Fire Department reported a fire at 422 N. Georgia Avenue.
Courtesy: UNI Athletics Communications CEDAR FALLS, Iowa – The University of Northern Iowa won its 10th straight home game with a 76-59 victory over the University of Northern Colorado Bears on Wednesday
(DES MOINES) – Gov. Terry Branstad has ordered all flags in Iowa be flown at half-staff from 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. Friday, December 7, 2012, in honor of Pearl Harbor Remembrance
Vanessa Miller, CR Gazette – A 24-year-old North Liberty man has been ordered to serve a short jail sentence, pay a $1,250 fine and complete drunken driving courses after he was arrested
By Tina Susman, Los Angeles Times – NEW YORK — Police on Wednesday filed murder charges against a homeless man who is accused of pushing another man onto a subway track, where the
By Randy Lewis, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES—New York indie-rock trio Fun. and L.A.’s breakout R&B/hip-hop star Frank Ocean scored big in Grammy Award nominations, scoring six nods apiece predominantly in the
By Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times – BEIRUT — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton indicated Wednesday that Washington is as concerned about Syria’s chemical weapons falling into the hands of Syrian
By Ellen Cruz – MANILA, Philippines — An estimated 325 people have been killed by Typhoon Bopha in the central and southern Philippines, with 411 injured and 379 missing, officials said Thursday.
By Jeff Potrykus, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel – MADISON, Wis. — The news that Bret Bielema was stepping down as head coach at Wisconsin and leaving to take over the Arkansas program, left the
By Kent Youngblood, Star Tribune (Minneapolis) – BOSTON — It was just after halftime at Boston’s TD Garden that any Timberwolves momentum garnered during a two-game winning streak ran straight into a wall.
Orlan Love and Steve Gravelle, CR Gazette – UPDATE: Two bodies found by hunters this afternoon may be those of missing cousins Lyric Cook and Elizabeth Collins, police said. Black Hawk County
By Andrew Dunn, The Charlotte Observer – CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Bank of America is preparing to add more restrictions to its popular work-from-home program, meaning more employees across the company will be sent
By Herb Jackson and Melissa Hayes, The Record (Hackensack, N.J.) – HACKENSACK, N.J.—The White House is preparing to ask Congress for an extra $60 billion in disaster aid after Superstorm Sandy, the Senate’s
MANILA — The number of people who have died in the Philippines as a result of the powerful Typhoon Bopha has risen to at least 127, with more than 200 others still
By Brian Bennett, Tribune Washington Bureau – WASHINGTON — A decadelong, $7 billion federal program to help local police and fire departments prepare for a terrorist attack has allowed communities to buy millions
By Brian Bennett, Tribune Washington Bureau – WASHINGTON — Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., said Wednesday that he wants to tackle small parts of immigration reform before addressing how to create a pathway to
By Ameet Sachdev, Chicago Tribune – CHICAGO — A Chicago-area woman with a prosthetic leg was wrongfully terminated from a temporary job because of her disability, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleged
By Lisa Demer, Anchorage Daily News – ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Back in the 1990s when he was a teenager, Israel Keyes picked his first victim, a teenage girl in Oregon, he later told
Thomas Lee, Star Tribune (Minneapolis) – Best Buy Co. had hoped the recent launch of Windows 8 would spark holiday sales. So far, though, Windows 8 sales have largely fizzled. Since Microsoft Corp.
Diane Heldt, CR Gazette – IOWA CITY – The state Board of Regents today unanimously approved a tuition freeze next year for in-state undergraduate students at Iowa’s three public universities, a move
Chao Xiong, Star Tribune (Minneapolis) – Jesse Mendoza grew up a poor kid in St. Paul, rising to hometown stardom as a break dancer who performed widely at rented dance halls in town.
By E. Scott Reckard and James Puzzanghera, Los Angeles Times – Four years after a massive federal bailout, banks are recording near-record profits — a development welcomed by regulators but met with fresh
By Jeff Zrebiec, The Baltimore Sun – BALTIMORE — As Ray Lewis walked onto the practice field in uniform Wednesday for the first time in seven weeks, his longtime Ravens teammate Terrell Suggs
AMES, Iowa – Iowa State linebackers A.J. Klein and Jake Knott were named to the first teams of the All-Big 12 Associated Press squad and the league’s coaches team that were released
By Steve Johnson and Brandon Bailey, San Jose Mercury News – As the nation gets close to plunging over the metaphorical fiscal cliff, triggering what could be massive tax increases and spending cuts
James Q. Lynch, CR Gazette (MCT)- DES MOINES – After tamping down expectations for what might be accomplished during the 2013 legislative session, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy told a Des Moines
United States Attorney Laura E. Duffy announced that Michael Ottinger, Jr., the sergeant at arms of the San Diego Chapter of the Hells Angels and a career offender, was sentenced today in
Paul Walsh, Star Tribune (Minneapolis) – A 12-year-old boy brought a baggie of methamphetamine to school and alerted his principal that his mother was an addict, according to authorities in Wright County. Sabina
MASON CITY – Newspaperman and native Algonan Denny Waller has written his first book, “Walkin’ Joe and the Midnight Marauders,” now available on Amazon. While it is memoir of a year or