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Aug. 10—Seven. That's the number of starters Mason City's football team brings back for the 2022 season. It is one of the smaller numbers in the area. It has to replace a bunch. Four offensive linemen will be new; 1,520 receiving yards are departed; the heart and soul of its defense graduated. "We're coming out to compete," Riverhawks head coach John Lee said. "We're looking to gain experience ...

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Aug. 10—According to a map of the Washington State International Kite Festival, Northwest winds are expected to blow through a sandy stretch of "buried kite anchors," where enthusiastic kite flyers will soon set up an annual display of colorful and unique kites along the shores of the Long Beach Peninsula. One image from a previous kite festival shows a trio of airborne gray whales flying over ...

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Aug. 10—The Chicago Cubs and Cincinnati Reds are scheduled to meet in the 2022 MLB Field of Dreams game in Dyersville, Iowa, on Thursday, Aug. 11. The game is scheduled to start at 6:15 p.m. CT/7:15 p.m. ET. This marks the second consecutive year that MLB has hosted a game at the site of the 1989 movie "Field of Dreams." The Chicago White Sox defeated the New York Yankees 9-8 in Dyersville on ...

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Aug. 10—ST. LOUIS — Soon after announcing his retirement on Tuesday morning, St. Louis Public Schools Superintendent Kelvin Adams quoted the Isley Brothers lyric "I got work to do" regarding his next move. He wants to find a way to keep helping kids in St. Louis after 14 years as head of the city's school district. "I care deeply about the kids in this city," Adams said in an interview. Adams, ...

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Aug. 10—DENVER — Not one to peddle what he called a "narrative" of keeping a winning streak going, not when any baseball clubhouse knows the scoreboard resets to zero every morning, Cardinals manager Oliver Marmol acknowledged a seven-game winning streak does alter the senses. "You get better sleep," he said. "Food tastes better," he added. "But it means nothing to today's game," he concluded. ...

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Aug. 10—ST. LOUIS COUNTY — Police commanders and a crime-scene technician descended on a quiet neighborhood in Ferguson on Wednesday after authorities found a 2-year-old girl who had been taken in a stolen vehicle overnight. The girl was unharmed and has been reunited with her family. St. Louis County police are still searching for the car thief or thieves who took the girl and her mother's ...

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Aug. 10—ST. LOUIS COUNTY — Prosecutors this week dropped five misdemeanor charges of misusing official information against a former St. Louis County police officer. The St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney's Office dismissed the 2021 case against Amy Loftus, a former St. Louis County police officer, as part of a diversion agreement, said her lawyer Peter Bruntrager. He said the terms of the ...

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Aug. 10—The St. Louis Sports Commission will make a bid to bring the 2024 men's and women's gymnastics trials to St. Louis again after drawing a record crowd on the final night of the 2021 trials. The bid will allow USA Gymnastics to choose between holding the event at The Dome at America's Center or Enterprise Center, sports commission Vice President Chris Roseman said. Other cities ...

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Aug. 10—ST. LOUIS — A St. Louis woman will serve more than two years in prison for trying to set fire to a downtown 7-Eleven on fire during protests in 2020. Nautica Turner, 27, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in St. Louis in February to conspiracy to commit arson. U.S. District Judge Stephen R. Clark sentenced her to 27 months on Tuesday. Authorities said she poured lighter fluid at the ...

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Aug. 10—On a warm August 2021 morning in Kabul, Afghanistan's capital city was unnaturally quiet in the week that followed the United States' troop withdrawal. That day, an Afghan citizen and U.S. translator (referred to here as "John" to protect his identity) began to make his way to his work shift at 3 p.m. before traffic forced his driver to turn around. John returned home before going to ...