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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority is taking bids on the work to remove tens of thousands of seats from the Metrodome. The organization wants the seats removed between Dec. 30 and Jan. 17. The seats will be made available to Minnesota charities and...

BEMIDJI -- Beltrami County Commissioners have started planning for the 2014 legislative session before 2013 comes to a close. Senator Tom Saxhaug (DFL-District 2) and Representatives John Persell (DFL-District 5A) and Roger Erickson (DFL-District 2A) joined commissioners to discuss...

BEMIDJI — Beltrami District Judge John Melbye will no longer be presiding over the annexation lawsuit between Bemidji Township and the city of Bemidji, according to court documents filed Tuesday. Northern Township was brought into the lawsuit by Melbye earlier this month. Last...

ST. PAUL — The Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board on Tuesday fined the Minnesota Democratic Senate campaign $100,000 for violating state campaign rules. Republicans filed a complaint alleging that various Democratic campaigns in 2012 shared photos, but were...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court will not hear a case about a Minnesota law that bans campaigning at the polls on election day. Conservative groups Minnesota Majority and North Star Tea Party Patriots were among those that challenged the law. They mostly were complaining about...

PELICAN RAPIDS — A woman injured in a head-on crash near here on Dec. 4 has died, according to the Minnesota State Patrol. The patrol was notified Monday that 59-year-old Brenda Cossette of Pelican Rapids died of injuries suffered in the accident. Cossette was the human resources...

BEMIDJI -- The people responsible for several thefts from cars outside area businesses and churches have been identified and are in the Beltrami County Jail. On Sunday afternoon, Beltrami County Sheriff’s Investigators began looking into thefts that occurred at Calvary Lutheran...

ST. PAUL — A Costa Rican vacation gave MNsure's executive director a permanent break from her job. April Todd-Malmlov handed her resignation to the MNsure board Tuesday night after publicity about the trip she and another state official took before Thanksgiving. The trip came at...

Sheriff’s Report The Beltrami County Sheriff’s Office responded to the following calls on Monday. Property Damage 12:10 p.m. Deputy responded to a property damage call after a vehicle left the roadway due to getting too close to the edge and struck a mailbox while heading into...

The Bemidji Fire Department responded to the following calls on Monday: 12:21 p.m. Rollover without injuries on the 7100 block of Pete Lane NW. 2:23 p.m. Water line broke in home on 800 block of America Ave. 7:23 p.m. Brush fire on the 4200 block of Swiss Lane NW. 10:50 p.m. Medical...

The following people were booked into the Beltrami County Jail Monday. The charges listed here do not necessarily reflect the nature of the counts that may be levied against them by the Beltrami County Attorney's Office. Giashamena Atkinson, 35 G-COURT/PENDING-609.2242.1(1) VIOLATION-Domestic...

FARGO — A federal district court judge has dismissed a case against a Battle Lake, Minn., man accused of trying to extort $50 million from the government and threatening several North Dakota elected officials, saying the man was clearly mentally ill and unfit for trial. Brian Jacobson...

ST. PAUL -- The St. Paul-Minneapolis Catholic archbishop today removed himself temporarily from public ministry after he was accused of inappropriately touching a boy in 2009. The archdiocese said it learned of the allegations against Archbishop John Nienstedt last weekend....