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CHARLES CITY – A dog was shot and killed Monday in Charles City by a police officer near an elementary school. UPDATE: The owner of the dog that was shot…
MASON CITY – A local man was arrested last weekend for felony domestic assault. According to police, officers were dispatched to a physical domestic assault situation at the 700 block…
MASON CITY – A fleet-footed man fled cops Wednesday after a chance encounter on the city’s North End. According to a report, Cerro Gordo County Sheriff’s Deputies were patrolling on…
WASHINGTON – Trying to tamp down the growing Indian-American feud over the apparent strip search of an Indian Diplomat in the U.S., Secretary of State John Kerry called a high-ranking…
MINNEAPOLIS – The Minnesota Twins have traded catcher/outfielder Ryan Doumit to the Braves for Minor League left-handed pitcher Sean Gilmartin, the Twins reported Wednesday. The 32 year-old Doumit hit .247…
MASON CITY – The NIACC women’s basketball team moved into the top spot in the NJCAA Division II poll Wednesday. NIACC, which was ranked No. 2 in last week’s poll, topped previously…
A Mason City woman, Angie Fistler Walker, today blasted the local YMCA for what she called the “worst experience there” and felt so strongly about it that she posted the…
The following opinion was written today by ESPN sports analyst and journalist Stephen A. Smith, an outspoken African-American TV personality and co-host of the First Take program which analyzes sports headlines…
The following is a letter released Tuesday from Most Reverend John C. Nienstedt, the Archbishop of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, regarding an allegation of inappropriate touching from a young man…
Glenwood, IOWA – 24 year-old Chad Fortner of Council Bluffs was charged today with 2nd Degree Murder in the death of 47 year-old Carol Meston. On October 12th, emergency responders…
WASHINGTON – The Department of Defense released Tuesday the 2014 Basic Allowance for Housing (BAH) rates, which take effect Jan. 1, 2014. Overall rates will increase an average of five…
DES MOINES – Gov. Terry Branstad and Lt. Gov. Kim Reynolds today issued the following statement upon learning of Congressman Tom Latham’s intention not to seek reelection in 2014 in…
FARGO – U.S. Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that on December 16, 2013, Valentino Bagola, 20, of St. Michael, North Dakota, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Ralph R. Erickson…
In an early look at the 2016 presidential race, New Jersey Gov. Christopher Christie leads former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton 45 – 40 percent. There is a large gender…
NEW YORK – Despite volatility and uncertainty, Afghanistan continues to make progress in enhancing its stability as the drawdown continues for the international forces that have sought to bring security…
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development jointly announced the following new residential construction statistics for November 2013: BUILDING PERMITS Privately-owned housing units…
San Luis, Ariz. – A Mexican national was arrested yesterday at the Port of San Luis after U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers discovered 1,041 pounds of marijuana co-mingled within…
DES MOINES – David Deangelo Wise, an inmate assigned to the Mount Pleasant Correctional Facility, died Sunday December 15, 2013 at University Hospitals in Iowa City. Wise died of natural…