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Willmar Police, school officials find no credible threats behind rumors

WILLMAR — Willmar Police and Willmar School District officials have investigated rumors about safety issues in the district’s school buildings this week and have found no credible threats to the...

news / local Wed, Dec 19, 2012 - 2:08pm

Nearby barricade situation prompts New Town schools into lockdown

By Amy Dalrymple Forum Communications NEW TOWN, N.D. – Schools in New Town are in lockdown today while law enforcement responds to a barricade situation in a neighborhood near the...

news Wed, Dec 19, 2012 - 1:48pm

Threats cause lockdown at Red Wing schools

RED WING, Minn. -- All Red Wing schools are on lockdown today after a student reported receiving a threatening call that alluded to a shooting at the school. According to...

news / education Wed, Dec 19, 2012 - 10:42am

December enforcement brings 1,300 DWI arrests in Minn.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota's Department of Public Safety says about 1,300 people have been arrested for driving while intoxicated so far in December. State law enforcement agencies are...

news / region Wed, Dec 19, 2012 - 8:29am

Gun permit applications surge in Twin Cities

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — More people in the Twin Cities are applying for gun permits in the aftermath of the Connecticut elementary school shooting. Anoka County had 36 applications Monday and...

news / region Wed, Dec 19, 2012 - 8:20am

Janice Jelinek of Cottage Grove, Minn., leans against the shoulder of her husband Ed during a vigil Monday for their 27-year-old daughter Danielle, who is missing. Forum Communications

Hope remains, but no evidence of missing Cottage Grove woman

By Scott Wente, Forum Communications COTTAGE GROVE, Minn. — It wasn’t like Danielle Jelinek to just disappear. The Cottage Grove native was living with her sister Cory in another Twin...

news / region Wed, Dec 19, 2012 - 3:15am

Former utility official pleads guilty to theft

By Mark Stodghill, Forum Communications DULUTH — A former Minnesota Power official pleaded guilty Tuesday to the theft of corporate property and agreed to pay $150,000 restitution. Susan Kay Thompson,...

news / region Wed, Dec 19, 2012 - 3:09am

Police and fire report for December 19

Police Report The Bemidji Police Department responded to the following calls: Property damage 3:08 p.m. Monday, 200 block of Sixth Street Northwest. A windshield was reportedly damaged by a sidewalk...

news / local Wed, Dec 19, 2012 - 3:03am

Charges filed after vehicle rollover

HUBBARD COUNTY – Charges have been filed after a vehicle rollover early Friday morning injured all five occupants of the car. According to a press release from the Hubbard County...

news / local Wed, Dec 19, 2012 - 3:02am

Creating gift for Dad

Nikki Gustafson customizes a Christmas present Tuesday for her dad at the Santa’s Workshop hosted by Bemidji’s Park and Recreation. Monte Draper | Bemidji Pioneer

news / local Wed, Dec 19, 2012 - 2:55am

Beltrami County Board: Road conditions are major citizen concern

By Molly Miron, Special to the Pioneer The public hearing on the Capital Improvement Plan for transportation drew a crowd to the Beltrami County Board meeting Tuesday. The commissioners unanimously...

news / local Wed, Dec 19, 2012 - 2:09am

Bemidji School District looks at extracurricular policies

BEMIDJI – The school district here is in the process of clarifying its policies on allowing outside students to partake in its extracurricular activities. The policy, which could be approved...

news / education Wed, Dec 19, 2012 - 1:20am

Justin Jourdain, a 2008 graduate of Red Lake High School who was in the school during the shootings that occurred there in 2005, stands with a Red Lake Band of Chippewa flag signed by people from the reservation. Jourdain and others are taking two signed flags on a trip to Newtown, Conn., to offer comfort to the grieving community in the wake of the tragic shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Monte Draper | Bemidji Pioneer

Red Lake grads to offer comfort to Newtown, Conn., families

RED LAKE – Justin Jourdain is among the few people who just might be able to understand. Jourdain, a 2008 graduate of Red Lake High School, was in the school...

news / region Tue, Dec 18, 2012 - 11:27pm

A woman reacts as a hearse begins to pull out outside of St. Rose of Lima Roman Catholic Church after funeral services for Jessica Rekos, Tuesday, in Newtown, Conn. Rekos, 6, was killed when Adam Lanza walked into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Dec. 14, and opened fire, killing 26 people, including 20 children, before killing himself. Julio Cortez | Associated Press

Classes resume in Newtown, minus Sandy Hook School

By DAVID KLEPPER, Associated Press Writer NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — Newtown returned its students to their classrooms Tuesday for the first time since last week’s massacre and faced the agonizing...

news Tue, Dec 18, 2012 - 10:51pm

A peek through a Norway pine Monday morning shows a barn surrounded by frosted trees. Monte Draper | Bemidij Pioneer

news / local Tue, Dec 18, 2012 - 10:36pm

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