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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 a principal
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 giant two
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 the last
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 in federal
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 across America,
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 body, Israel
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 8½-point favorites.
By Jeff Potrykus, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel – INDIANAPOLIS — Wisconsin’s players and coaches felt the frustration build week after week, loss after loss, over a 12-game regular season. There were five losses by
ROCHESTER, NY—The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced today that the government will return approximately $9,000,000 in forfeited funds to the victims of a Ponzi scheme allegedly perpetrated by the late Ashvin Zaveri of
By Jessica Guynn, Los Angeles Times – SAN FRANCISCO — Pinterest is the one looking to get pinned this holiday season. The popular social networking site that lets you collect and share images
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 sophomore Grant
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 before going
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 was Clint
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 pairs of
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. I don’t
by Jody Spear and Kelly Meyer – Bob Havig was on his way home from work when he noticed a brush fire out-of-control at Spruce Avenue and 230th Street, Friday evening around
by Jody Spear and Kelly Meyer – MASON CITY – Around 4:20 PM Friday, a two vehicle accident occurred on Highway 122 and South Rhode Island causing injuries. A 41 year old female was
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 freshman point
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, 2012 on
MASON CITY – Mason City officially kicked off its Blue Zone project Friday night at NIACC. The goal is to eventually help Iowa become the healthiest state in America by the year
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 third five-set
MASON CITY – On Friday November 30, 2012 about 1254 hours, Deputies with the Cerro Gordo County Sheriff’s Office with the assistance of the Mason City Police Department served a search warrant
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 families and
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 by two
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 Bureau of
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 making extortionate
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 Kirilenko was
By Christi Parsons, Tribune Washington Bureau – HATFIELD, Pa. — President Obama cast himself in the role of Santa Claus during a visit to a toy factory Friday, suggesting that Republican lawmakers should
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 was awakened
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 sentences, reduced
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. Bradley Speker,
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 human smuggling
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 complaints filed
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 Outback Beagles.
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 interviewed, despite
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 a joint
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 Thursday by
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 to streamline
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.” Pre-written mass-produced
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 States, ending