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BEMIDJI -- Twin Cities-based Hubbard Broadcasting announced Wednesday it had closed on a deal to buy 16 radio stations in northern Minnesota, including five in Bemidji and six in Brainerd. Under the deal, initially announced in November, stations of Paul Bunyan Broadcasting's parent...

BEMIDJI -- Churches United will host the second annual Michael James Moylan Jr. Memorial coat and warm winter apparel distribution from noon to 6 p.m. Monday at Mount Zion Church cafeteria, 414 Lincoln Ave. NE. Moylan was a resident in the Bemidji-Cass Lake area who not only donated...

BISMARCK -- Two California men were taken into custody Sunday afternoon after a North Dakota Highway Patrol trooper found 136 pounds of marijuana. The driver, 22-year-old Andrew Xiong, and his passenger, 33-year-old Jerry Yang, both of Sacramento, Calif., were taken into custody...

BEMIDJI -- A Bemidji-area man was arrested in Cass County after a burglary in Wilson Township, officials said Wednesday. According to the Cass County Sheriff's Office, the office received a report at 4:11 a.m.

ALEXANDRIA, Minn. -- A man pulled from a central Minnesota lake on Tuesday has died, family members say, while his 2-year-old grandson is hospitalized in critical condition. In a statement issued Wednesday morning, the family said that James Minnerath, 50, of Alexandria died after...

MINNEAPOLIS — A semi truck driver was killed Monday morning after he exited his vehicle and was hit by a truck on Interstate 35W. According to the Minnesota State Patrol, Robert J. Passow, 47, of Fort Dodge, Iowa, had gotten out of his truck after sideswiping an unidentified passenger...

WILLMAR — Ex-Savor Rene Cruz pleaded guilty Tuesday to a charge of second-degree attempted murder for stabbing his stepgrandmother in June at her Willmar home. Cruz's stepgrandmother, Maria Garcia, 64, of Willmar, suffered four stab wounds to the neck and shoulder during the June...

BRAINERD — A man was killed Tuesday when the apartment he rented in downtown Brainerd was destroyed by fire. The Brainerd Fire Department was called just after 3 a.m. to the fire at a building that housed a law office on the main floor and two apartments on the second floor. There...

BEMIDJI -- The Council of Indian Students will hold its last fry bread taco and soup sale fundraiser from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. March 18 in the American Indian Resource Center on the BSU campus. The menu will include frybread for $7, chicken wild rice soup for $4, blueberry delight...

BEMIDJI -- The city of Bemidji’s Parks and Recreation Department has become a registered Safe Sitter teaching site and is offering the training for children 11 years of age and older. Classes will be offered from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. Tuesdays from April 7 to April 28 at the Public...

BEMIDJI -- The Northwest Minnesota Women's Fund is seeking nominations for its "Community Builders" awards. Since 1998, the Northwest Minnesota Women's Fund has honored 45 women who have demonstrated leadership for improving the quality of their own lives or those around them, making...