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MINNEAPOLIS – At 6:30 Friday morning, March 27, a Minneapolis Police Officer working off duty security heard multiple shots in the area of North 10th Street and Currie Avenue. The officer went
MASON CITY – Mason City’s mayor and city council were unable during this year’s budget cycle to provide the leadership necessary to make a decision on their own on whether to raise
MASON CITY – Police were called to a Mason City residence Saturday afternoon to deal with a domestic incident. An emergency call was made reference a domestic incident at the area of
HAMPTON – The Franklin County Republican Party Central Committee will meet at 5:30 p.m. on Monday, April 6, 2015 at Godfather’s Pizza in Hampton. At this meeting, we will hear from Republican
MASON CITY – A Mason City man was arrested for the third time for drunk driving after a crash. Police were called to the intersection of 7th Street SE and Federal Avenue
SOUTHWEST ASIA – On March 27, coalition military forces continued to attack ISIL terrorists in Syria, using attack, fighter and bomber aircraft to conduct four airstrikes. Separately in Iraq, coalition military forces
BUCHANAN COUNTY – A Milwaukee man was arrested after police clocked him at over 100 miles per hour on an Iowa highway. On Friday, March 27, 2015, Buchanan County Sheriff’s Deputies arrested
INDEPENDENCE – Law enforcement took an alleged math-maker off the streets this week. On Monday, March 23, 2015, Buchanan County Sheriff’s Deputies arrested Nicholas James Thomas, 26, of Independence. Thomas was arrested
CLEAR LAKE – Clear Lake head football coach Fred Wieck has resigned. It was announced that Wieck will work as a volunteer for his son Rudy, who is the new head coach
DES MOINES, IA – The Iowa Economic Development Authority (IEDA) board today awarded direct financial assistance and tax benefits to four companies for job creation and expansion projects. Today’s awards will assist
WASHINGTON – Law enforcement officials announced today that a man was charged with federal civil rights crimes for engaging in threatening conduct directed at African American students and employees at the University
DES MOINES – NIACC sophomore Rellie Kaputin won the high jump and the long jump at the Grand View Invitational Friday in the Lady Trojans’ season-opening outdoor meet. Kaputin won the high
NIT – As it turns out, Joe Yavorski never got his trash-to-energy plant built in Colorado, just as it never got built here in Mason City. You remember Joe Yavorski. The CEO
MASON CITY – The Mason City Fire Department and ambulance conducted a training exercise Thursday evening in a parking lot near its headquarters. According to Fire Chief Bob Platts, the emergency responders
MASON CITY – The nasty behavior towards helpless animals continues in Mason City, this time with the discovery of 8 live kittens in a dumpster that were saved, but died the next
MASON CITY – A Mason City man recently convicted of sexual acts with a child has found himself behind bars for violating his lenient sentence. On December 6, 2013, Cerro Gordo County
MASON CITY – A Lake Mills man accused of stealing from a Mason City business got out of the county before he was caught and brought back to jail. The long arm
NIT Opinion – Winnebago passed over Mason City once again, announcing today it has purchased a building in Waverly, Iowa – 50 miles further down the Avenue of the Saints – to
FOREST CITY – Winnebago Industries, Inc. has announced a plan to purchase a 33,400 sq. ft. building in Waverly, Iowa, for expansion of the Company’s subassembly operations. “Increased consumer demand and elevated
CHICAGO, Ill. – The Justice Department announced today that two Aurora, Illinois, men were arrested Wednesday night for allegedly conspiring to provide material support to Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
RURAL CERRO GORDO COUNTY – A North Iowa woman was taken to Mercy Hospital Thursday after her car crashed. According to the Cerro Gordo County Sheriff’s Office, a green 2015 Ford Taurus
DES MOINES – The Safe at Home Act, a top priority of Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate, passed the Iowa House Thursday with overwhelming support. The bill, House File 585, received
WASHINGTON – The union membership rate of wage and salary workers was 11.1 percent in 2014, down from 20.1 percent in 1983, the U.S. Census bureau said this week. The public-sector rate
MASON CITY – A Mason City man previously accused of arson, willful injury, and other serious crimes was seen throwing a duffle bag that contained a live cat into a river and
WASHINGTON, D.C. – One of the world’s largest foreign oil companies was caught by the U.S. government doing business in America with Iran and Sudan, and has been ordered to pay a
MASON CITY – Police were called to a local retail store after a North Iowa woman was spotted attempting to steal. Employees at the Kohls department store, 556 Indianhead Drive in Mason
NORA SPRINGS – A Wednesday afternoon crash near Nora Springs sent a Charles City woman to the hospital, who later died. According to the Iowa State Patrol, at about 12:45 PM on
NIT – Has the government of the state of Indiana gone too far, or is what this red state is about to do an “it’s about time” moment that more states should
MASON CITY – A Mason City man pleaded who guilty to felony willful injury after stabbing a man during a fight at a local park lost his appeal. According to police, on
SOUTHWEST ASIA – Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve operations to support Iraqi Security Forces in Tikrit have commenced after a request from the Iraqi Prime Minister, Haider al-Abadi. The
DES MOINES – A Mason City man caught performing sex acts at the Mason City YMCA has lost his appeal. Dennis Vrba appealed his conviction for indecent exposure. He asserted in his
CHARLES CITY – Two friends were arrested during a traffic stop last week in Charles City. Charles City police conducted a traffic stop just before midnight on March 17, 2015 in the
CHARLES CITY – Floyd County Sheriff Rick Lynch today confirmed that an investigation is still on-going after a woman was injured by a vehicle driven by a Charles City fire chief. Sheriff
NIT opinion – Scott Tornquist blew his stack Monday night at a Mason City business – something he has done before – after he became furious that a citizen called him out
CHARLES CITY – During an investigation in which stolen items were recovered, Charles City police arrested a woman for a second time for harassment. Charles City police went to an apartment at
WASHINGTON — A Minnesota National Guardsman was indicted last week for inducing a 14 year-old girl to send him nude photos over the Internet while he was deployed to Afghanistan, announced Assistant
FOREST CITY – Waldorf College director of business online program, master’s degree program interim director and residential and online adjunct professor, Dr. Larry Hill, was appointed to the Iowa Board of Educational
CHARLES CITY – A Charles City man already facing his second drunk driving charge since December 28 was arrested this week for domestic abuse assault. Charles City police arrested 42-year-old Herbert Hoover
CHARLES CITY – A Nashua man who was stopped and arrested by Charles City police has pleaded guilty to drunk driving and was sent to jail this month. Charles City police stopped
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), member of the tax-writing Senate Finance Committee and backed by Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa, today reintroduced legislation to permanently repeal the federal estate