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MONTE DRAPER | BEMIDJI PIONEER It might have been cold, wet and windy Tuesday but it didn’t stop some fishing off the dock on Lake Bemidji.

Bemidji to receive more LGA next year

Bemidji City Hall. (staff photo)

Medical examiner: 24 dead in Oklahoma twister

This aerial photo shows damage to Plaza Towers Elementary School after it was hit by a massive tornado in Moore, Okla., Monday May 20, 2013. A tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods, setting buildings on fire and landing a direct blow on an elementary school. (AP Photo/Steve Gooch)

Capitol, flooding, veterans, disaster funding end Minnesota Legislature

Minnesota House Speaker Paul Thissen gavels out the 2013 legislative session seconds before the midnight Monday, May 20, 2013, adjournment deadline. (Forum News Service photo by Don Davis)

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Police and fire report for May 22
Police Report The Bemidji Police Department responded to the following calls: Theft 3:09 p.m. Monday, 1800 block of Paul Bunyan Drive Northwest. Someone drove away without paying for gas. Property damage 12:21 p.m. Monday, 300 block of Sixth Street Northwest. A minor...
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PARK RAPIDS— A 7,100-acre grass fire that con-sumed 64 buildings last week is contained. Weekend rains helped departments get the fire under control. “We got rain and that’s ex-cellent,” Jeff Edmonds, spokesman for the state De-partment of Natural Re-sources, said over...
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Reporters gather outside the Novotel hotel during the 66th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, Friday, May 17, 2013. A French police official says a thief or thieves stole about $1 million worth in jewelry inside a safe in a Novotel hotel room, against the backdrop of the Riviera resort town’s film festival. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau) Copyright 2013, The Associated Press

PARIS (AP) — Suspected thieves ripped out a small safe from the wall of a hotel room near the Cannes Film Festival and made off with about $1 million worth ...

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