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Fargo man in threesome stabbing sentenced

FARGO -- A 33-year-old man accused of stabbing another man while they were both having sex with a woman has pleaded guilty to reduced charges. Ashley Hunter, 33, was sentenced...

news / region Thu, Jun 06, 2013 - 9:01am

Woman charged in fatal Carlton County crash

CARLTON, Minn. -- A rural Esko woman was charged Wednesday in Carlton County Court with criminal vehicular homicide and criminal vehicular operation after a weekend crash that killed a Cloquet...

news / region Thu, Jun 06, 2013 - 8:58am

Body found in Grand Rapids ID’d as missing man

GRAND RAPIDS, Minn. -- The St. Louis County Medical Examiner’s Office has confirmed that the body found Monday in Grand Rapids was that of a man missing for two weeks...

news / region Thu, Jun 06, 2013 - 8:56am

Man gets 120 days in Moorhead’s largest-ever pot bust

MOORHEAD, Minn. -- A Dilworth man has pleaded guilty in a drug bust police in Moorhead said was the biggest one-time haul of marijuana ever seized here. Lawrence Kent Brink,...

news / region Thu, Jun 06, 2013 - 8:55am

Rian Grotberg, 18, is among 20 seniors who will graduate tonight from Voyageurs Expeditionary High School. Monte Draper | Bemidji Pioneer

Voyageurs graduate Rian Grotberg hopes to study storms, atmospheric science

BEMIDJI — As a young child, Rian Grotberg used to be afraid of thunderstorms. "The more I learned about them, the less afraid and more interested I became," said Grotberg,...

news / education Wed, Jun 05, 2013 - 11:10pm

Law enforcement personnel gather outside a home where two people were found dead and two others were injured after a shooting inside the home on the 5900 block of Grotto Avenue in Shoreview on Tuesday. Ben Garvin | Associated Press

In leaving abusive situations, women should seek help

By Annie Baxter MPR News 91.3 FM ST. PAUL — A moving truck sat idle on the street of a home in Shoreview, Minn., Tuesday, surrounded by police cars. As...

news Wed, Jun 05, 2013 - 11:06pm

Kali Geerdes, 7 Cora Geerdes, 9 and Owen Geerdes, 3, help fill the planter with flowers in front of the Bemidji Area Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday evening. The planter has been adopted by Girl Scouts Troop No. 942 out of Northern Elementary School. Monte Draper | Bemidji Pioneer

Planter filled with flowers

Kali Geerdes, 7 Cora Geerdes, 9 and Owen Geerdes, 3, help fill the planter with flowers in front of the Bemidji Area Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday evening. The planter...

news / local Wed, Jun 05, 2013 - 10:51pm

Minnesota beef cow that bore quads last spring has twins

By Jonathan Knutson Forum News Service FOSSTON — Keith Sistad beat the odds again, though on a much smaller scale. Last spring, one of the Fosston cattleman’s Red Angus cows...

news / region Wed, Jun 05, 2013 - 10:25pm

Daily arrests, police and fire report for June 5

Police Report The Bemidji Police Department responded to the following calls: Assault 11:57 a.m. Tuesday, 400 block of Bemidji Avenue North. Officers responded to a report of assault, where the...

news / local Wed, Jun 05, 2013 - 3:43pm

This June 3, 2013 photo released by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, shows a mother bear killed by a conservation officer. The DNR said the bear clawed and bit a 72-year-old Minnesota woman after she and her dog startled the bear and its three yearlings at her home Monday near McGregor, Minn. The officer later shot the bear when it charged him. The woman was recovering at home Wednesday. Officials left the yearlings alone to fend for themselves.(AP Photo/Department of Natural Resources)

Woman hurt in bear attack in Aitkin County

By John Myers Forum News Service McGREGOR, Minn. -- A 72-year-old rural McGregor woman was bitten and clawed by a sow bear Monday evening in the woman’s yard just outside...

news / region Wed, Jun 05, 2013 - 1:10pm

Baby’s birth surprises Duluth runner training for race

By Mike Creger Forum News Service John Staine pinched the doctor on Monday. “It was like a dream,” the new father said of the odyssey he and his wife have...

news / region Wed, Jun 05, 2013 - 11:03am

Twin Cities cheerleader accused of prostituting girl

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A suburban Minneapolis high school cheerleader is accused of prostituting a younger student by creating an online ad and taking her to see potential customers, pocketing $60...

news / region Wed, Jun 05, 2013 - 9:35am

Duluth prosecutor: Suspect wanted victim to bleed to death

DULUTH -- A Marquette, Mich., woman coldly and calculatedly stabbed a woman in the back and then pulled the knife out because she wanted the victim to bleed to death,...

news / region Wed, Jun 05, 2013 - 8:54am

Hundreds of dead carp reported at N.D. dam

JAMESTOWN, N.D. -- A European or Asian fish virus may be responsible for the deaths of hundreds of carp in the waters behind Jamestown Dam, according to Gene van Eeckhout,...

news / region Wed, Jun 05, 2013 - 8:51am

Master Gardener: Will your lawn mushroom?

By Helenruth Schuette Master Gardener There is only one mushroom I look forward to seeing in my lawn and that’s the morel mushroom. We have had four in one year,...

news / local Wed, Jun 05, 2013 - 1:10am

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