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Health issues await 2013 legislative session; lawmaker says ‘there is a big pent-up demand’

ST. PAUL – A mix of health-related legislation awaits Minnesota legislators, ranging from rewriting state sex offender treatment laws to finding ways to mesh state programs with Obamacare. “We have...

news Sat, Dec 29, 2012 - 10:19pm

Police and sheriff report for December 30

Police Report The Bemidji Police Department responded to the following calls: Theft 12:37 p.m. Friday, a theft from a motor vehicle was reported at 15196 Gull Lake Loop Rd. NE...

news / local Sat, Dec 29, 2012 - 10:00pm

Grand Rapids shooting victim dies from injuries

DULUTH – One of the two people shot in Grand Rapids a week ago has died, police said Saturday. The Grand Rapids Police Department reported that Rosemary Oberg-Johnson, 59, of...

news Sat, Dec 29, 2012 - 9:56pm

Anti-bully forces try again at the Legislature

By Tim Post MPR News 91.3 FM ST. PAUL – Advocates of stronger anti-bullying measures in Minnesota say they’ll push again for a new bullying law during the upcoming legislative...

news Sat, Dec 29, 2012 - 9:48pm

Students leave, budget plummets in Stephen-Argyle school district

By Ryan Bakken Forum Communications Stephen-Argyle – Central school district anticipated an enrollment drop of 15 students this school year, based on having more graduating seniors than incoming kindergartners. However,...

news / education Sat, Dec 29, 2012 - 9:47pm

Victim in fatal stabbing was Minneapolis woman, 43

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The victim of a stabbing death in Hennepin County this week has been identified as a 43-year-old Minneapolis woman. The medical examiner's office released a statement Saturday...

news / region Sat, Dec 29, 2012 - 1:31pm

Grand Rapids shooting victim dies from injuries

DULUTH - One of the two people shot in Grand Rapids a week ago has died, police said today. The Grand Rapids Police Department reported that Rosemary Oberg-Johnson, 59, of...

news / region Sat, Dec 29, 2012 - 1:29pm

Gay marriage debate will continue during 2013 legislative session

By Danielle Killey and Don Davis Forum Communications ST. PAUL – Organizations that took the lead in an election fight to ban gay marriage will keep working as Minnesota lawmakers...

news Sat, Dec 29, 2012 - 12:40am

Court ruling, citing prosecutorial missteps, is the latest chapter in Leisa Martin case that one lawyer called ‘bizarre’

By Jim Anderson Star Tribune BAGLEY – To a tangled homicide investigation that includes a family’s tightly held “shroud of secrets,” strife between two brothers, and a mysterious note on...

news / region Sat, Dec 29, 2012 - 12:35am

Ultimate Frisbee Tournament set

BEMIDJI – The Paul and Babe Jamboree (PB&J)UltimateFrisbeeHat Tournament will befrom 1-8 p.m. on Saturday at the Gillett Recreational Center on the Bemidji State University campus. Ultimate Frisbee is a...

news / local Fri, Dec 28, 2012 - 4:04pm

Police: NYC subway push victim was from India

NEW YORK (AP) — The man who was shoved to his death in front of a subway train Thursday night was a 46-year-old from India who lived in New York...

news Fri, Dec 28, 2012 - 3:01pm

Portraits of Venezuela's independence hero Simon Bolivar, left, and Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez are exhibited for sale on folding easels in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, Dec. 28, 2012. The obsessive, circular conversations about Chavez's health dominate family dinners, plaza chit-chats and social media sites in this country on edge since its larger-than-life leader went to Cuba for emergency cancer surgery more than two weeks ago. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Venezuelans obsess: Will Chavez live or die?

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — He's getting better. He's getting worse. He's already dead. The whole thing is a conspiracy and he was never sick in the first place. The obsessive,...

news Fri, Dec 28, 2012 - 2:48pm

Former President George H.W. Bush, and his wife, former first lady Barbara Bush, arrive for the premiere of HBO's new documentary on his life earlier this year near the family compound in Kennebunkport, Maine. Bush spokesman Jim McGrath said Wednesday, Dec. 26. 2012 that doctors at the Houston hospital where Bush has been treated for a month remain “cautiously optimistic” that he will recover. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

Health of George H.W. Bush 'improving'

HOUSTON (AP) — Former President George H.W. Bush remained in intensive care at a Houston hospital on Friday but his condition continues to improve, a spokesman said. "The President is...

news Fri, Dec 28, 2012 - 2:44pm

Paintings outrage Islamic hard-liners in Pakistan

LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan's leading arts college has pushed boundaries before in this conservative nation. But when a series of paintings depicting Muslim clerics in scenes with strong homosexual...

news Fri, Dec 28, 2012 - 2:15pm

Coach cleared of child porn wants files sealed

MANKATO, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota State University, Mankato, head football coach Todd Hoffner, who was cleared of child pornography charges last month that stemmed from videos found on his cellphone...

news Fri, Dec 28, 2012 - 1:03pm

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