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Bilingual signs may now be ordered for organizations and businesses in Park Rapids. Modeled after the Bemidji Ojibwe Language Project, they display Ojibwe art with an Ojibwe word and the translation in English. (Submitted photo)

Park Rapids adopts an Ojibwe Language Project

PARK RAPIDS—A movement started years ago in Bemidji to help bridge the Native and non-Native communities has spread to Park Rapids. Signs...

news/education 24 min 54 sec ago

April 25, 2018

Scheel appears on first-degree murder charges in slaying of grandparents

ST. CLOUD — The man suspected of killing his grandparents in their Paynesville home made his first appearance Wednesday, April 25, in Stearns...

news/crime-and-courts 10 hours 3 min ago

Major pushback against Line 3 recommendation

DULUTH—A judge's recommendation that the Line 3 pipeline replacement should follow its existing route across Minnesota — through two reservations instead of around them, as Enbridge had proposed — is being met with criticism from all sides, including the state's...

news/traffic-and-construction 11 hours 34 min ago

Jeffery George Ackerson, Jr., and Sheena Marie Ackerson are facing charges related to the fire that destroyed their home in Bird Island on Jan. 15. Photo submitted by Renville County Sheriff's Department

Owners of Bird Island home destroyed by fire now face charges

OLIVIA, Minn.—The owners of a Bird Island home destroyed by fire in January have now been charged in connection with that fire. Jeffrey...

news/crime-and-courts 12 hours 54 min ago

The former McNally Smith College of Music sign at Wabasha and Exchange Street in St. Paul on Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2018. John Autey / St. Paul Pioneer Press

For employees, students to get paid, McNally Smith college building must sell before 2019

ST. PAUL—If a bankruptcy trustee can't sell the McNally Smith College of Music building before the end of the year, there may be no money...

news/education 12 hours 56 min ago

Fridley, Minn., man killed in house fire

FRIDLEY, Minn.—A Fridley man was killed Tuesday night, April 24, when a fire engulfed the home in which he was sleeping. Three other occupants of the home were able to make it out safely when it caught fire just before 8 p.m. Tuesday, according to the Anoka County sheriff's...

news/fires 13 hours 1 min ago

Authorities in Sacramento, Calif., announced Wednesday that they had arrested 72-year-old Joseph James DeAngelo in the so-called Golden State Killer case. MUST CREDIT: Sacramento County Sheriff's Department

'Golden State Killer' suspect, a former police officer, arrested after DNA match, officials say

More than 40 years after the so-called "Golden State Killer" began terrorizing California, raping dozens of women and killing at least 12, authorities...

news/crime-and-courts 13 hours 14 min ago

Laporte may keep music program after all

LAPORTE—Laporte Public School may keep it's one-woman music program after all. The School Board is scheduled to meet Tuesday, May 1, to...

news 14 hours 12 min ago

A makeshift memorial of stuffed animals for 6-year-old Justis Burland sits outside the Fergus Falls, Minn., house where he lived. Burland died this month after suffering ongoing abuse, according to court documents. Forum News Service file photo

Twin of boy killed in Fergus Falls will be returned to Washington

FERGUS FALLS, Minn. — The twin brother of a boy killed in this central Minnesota city will be returned to Washington state. Six-year-old...

news/crime-and-courts 14 hours 26 min ago

FILE-- The Senate Veterans Affairs Committee is examining allegations that Dr. Ronny Jackson, now in 2018 Trump’s nominee to lead the Veterans Affairs Department, oversaw a hostile work environment as the White House physician and allowed the overprescribing of drugs, according to congressional officials briefed on the committee’s work. They have also received claims that Jackson drank too much on the job. (Tom Brenner/The new York Times/Copyright 2018)

VA nominee faces explosive new allegations of drinking, wrecking government vehicle

WASHINGTON - White House physician Ronny Jackson, President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs, wrecked a government...

news/government-and-politics 16 hours 6 min ago

Minnesota state Rep. Erin Maye Quade talks to reporters after she ended a 24-hour sit-in at the front o f he House chambers Wednesday, April 25, 2018. Don Davis / Forum News Service

Speaker cracks open door for Minnesota gun bill

ST. PAUL — Minnesotans have marched on the state Capitol by the thousands this year seeking gun control legislation, always meeting with strong...

news/government-and-politics 16 hours 8 min ago

New elementary school to add to district staff

BEMIDJI -- Bemidji Area Schools is set to spend $967,000 more on personnel next school year -- the first that Gene Dillon Elementary will be...

news/education 16 hours 15 min ago

United Way’s Someone Special program underway

BEMIDJI -- The United Way of Bemidji Area’s Someone Special Volunteer Program is now accepting nominations to recognize local volunteers. Celebrating...

news 17 hours 24 min ago

David Michael Otey

Minn. man indicted on 1st- and 2nd-degree murder of sister

BRAINERD, Minn.—A 37-year-old Cambridge, Minn., man was indicted by a grand jury Friday, April 20, in connection with the stabbing death...

news/crime-and-courts 17 hours 47 min ago

A Port Authority official berated and cursed at officers during a traffic stop. A dash cam was on.

There is, of course, no official manual on how to use an official government position to get officers to tear up a ticket, but for any enterprising...

news/nation 17 hours 53 min ago