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BALTIMORE, March 4 (UPI) — A Maryland father said it was “insanity” to suspend his 7-year-old son from school for chewing his breakfast pastry into the shape of a gun.…
NEW YORK, March 4 (UPI) — U.S. stock indexes turned higher Monday as investors put on the brakes, stopping an early slide to put the Dow index within reach of…
CHICAGO, March 4 (UPI) — Grains were mixed on the Chicago Board of Trade Monday with soybeans posting gains and corn and wheat futures dropping lower. Corn was off 1…
MINNEAPOLIS, March 4 (UPI) — Dwyane Wade went 15-of-23 from the field en route to 32 points Monday and the Miami Heat won a team-record 15th straight game, 97-81 over…
MASON CITY – According to the agenda for the March 5th meeting of the Cerro Gordo County Board of Supervisors, the board will hold a public hearing on the county’s…
MASON CITY – The snow has already began to fall in Mason City, fresh off of about 2″ to 4″ in the area, with 6″ to 10″ more in the…
BETHESDA, Md., March 2 (UPI) — U.S. researchers said cannabinoids — psychoactive compounds of marijuana — can be detected in the blood of daily pot smokers during a month of…
MASON CITY – Convicted drug dealer Stephen Lee Smith, age 34, is being held in the Cerro Gordo County Jail on a 200,000 cash or surety bond following a traffic…
MANKATO – A man who recently moved from Chicago to Mankato is now in jail on felony charges after allegedly going on a rampage on a four year-old boy he…
AMES, Iowa – March 4, 2013; 3:15 p.m. update – Roadways along the Iowa/Minnesota border, as well as parts of north central and northeast Iowa, are being reported by the…
MASON CITY – The NIACC women’s and men’s basketball teams Region XI tournament games scheduled for Tuesday have been moved to Wednesday due to the anticipated upcoming storm across the…
OWINGS MILLS, Md., March 4 (UPI) — Baltimore Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco signed a new contract Monday, making him the highest-paid player in NFL history. The agreement is reportedly for…
BAKERSFIELD, Calif., March 4 (UPI) — An elderly woman died at a California senior living facility after a nurse refused to give her CPR because it violated company policy, emergency…
CHARLOTTE, N.C., March 4 (UPI) — Residents of a Charlotte, N.C., neighborhood said someone placed several decapitated roosters on headstones at a cemetery, possibly part of a ritual. The rooster…
HOMS, Syria, March 4 (UPI) — Opponents of Syrian President Bashar Assad said fighting in the central city of Homs escalated Monday, a day after high casualties in battles in…
TAMPA, Fla., March 4 (UPI) — Casey Anthony appeared in public, for the first time in more than two years, at her Tampa, Fla., bankruptcy hearing Monday. She waded through…
IOWA CITY, Iowa — University of Iowa senior Matt and junior Derek St. John earned the top seed at their respective weight class when the Big Ten Championships preliminary seeds…
Statement by Senate President Pam Jochum, Chair of the subcommittee on SF 71, Medicaid Expansion – “Governor Branstad’s plan would provide second-class health care to tens of thousands of working…
AMES, Iowa – March 4, 2013; 5 a.m. – A severe winter storm began overnight in extreme northern Iowa, southern Minnesota and western Wisconsin. The storm is expected to extend…
PHOENIX, March 3 (UPI) — Maricopa County, Ariz., Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the self-described “America’s toughest sheriff,” is out of the hospital after falling and breaking a shoulder bone. Arpaio, 80,…
KARACHI, Pakistan, March 4 (UPI) — The toll from a huge bomb attack in Karachi, apparently targeting Pakistan’s minority Shiites, rose to at least 45 dead and 135 injured Monday,…
LONGMONT, Colo., March 3 (UPI) — A Colorado man was stun-gunned and then arrested for allegedly charging at Boulder County sheriff’s deputies with a broom, officials said. John Sena, 56,…
KARACHI, Pakistan, March 3 (UPI) — At least 24 people, including women and children, were killed and several others were injured when a blast went off in Karachi Sunday, officials…
SEOUL, March 3 (UPI) — North Korea is moving to hold dueling military exercises in the East Sea as U.S. and South Korean forces hold their own annual war games.…
NEW YORK, March 3 (UPI) — A New York City man was arrested and charged with faking being kidnapped to avoid telling his girlfriend why he was gone for two…
AMES, Iowa – The Iowa Department of Transportation has added a new service to its online services portal, myMVD, that allows suspended and revoked drivers to pay civil penalties that…
WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 (UPI) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Osphena, or ospemifene, to treat women experiencing moderate to severe pain during sexual intercourse. Dyspareunia, severe pain during…
MONTGOMERY, Ala., March 3 (UPI) — U.S. Rep. John Lewis, a hero of the civil rights movement, was moved to tears by an apology from the Montgomery, Ala., police chief…
SACRAMENTO, March 3 (UPI) — Karl Rove, speaking to California Republicans, renewed his call for a revamped message from the GOP to catch voters in a changing America. Though he…
ATLANTA, March 3 (UPI) — U.S. researchers say a 2-year-old is exhibiting a “functional cure” to HIV after getting anti-retroviral therapy within 30 hours of birth. Researchers at the Johns…
GLASGOW, Scotland, March 3 (UPI) — Scotland’s Cardinal Keith O’Brien, 74, admitted Sunday his sexual conduct had been inappropriate and said he has stepped down from his post. STV News…
LONDON, March 3 (UPI) — The British government’s promises to end routine child strip-searching often were broken as 43,000 incidents recently were recorded, rights activists said. In only 275 of…
INDIANAPOLIS, March 3 (UPI) — David West poured in 31 points on 11-of-17 shooting Sunday and the Indiana Pacers prevailed over Chicago 97-92 in a key Central Division battle. West…