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WOODBURY, Minn. -- Washington County authorities on Monday identified the remains of a dead body found in the St. Croix River as a missing Cottage Grove native. The Ramsey County Medical Examiner's Office positively identified the remains as belonging to Timothy Michael Pease, a...

LAKE LILLIAN, Minn. - The Kandiyohi County Sheriff's Department on Monday released the identity of a Willmar boy who was injured over the weekend in a boating accident. William Huisinga, 8, of Willmar, was air-lifted to North Memorial Medical Center in Robbinsdale around 3:30 p...

DULUTH - A woman was hit by a car while walking down a Duluth sidewalk Monday, sending her to the hospital with life-threatening injuries while the driver fled from police. Duluth police chased down and arrested a Bayfield, Wis., man. The man is in the St. Louis County jail and...

BEMIDJI - A $4,000 grant has been awarded to the Bemidji Police Department for a crackdown on underage drinking. Police Chief Mike Mastin said the grant, from the Invitation Health Institute for the Enhanced College Enforcement grant program, provides funding "for enforcement of...

BEMIDJI - A man accused of stalking a Bemidji woman will be sentenced after entering an Alford plea to the charge. Joshua Joseph Brunner of Cambridge on Aug. 7 entered an Alford plea for gross misdemeanor stalking. An Alford plea has the legal effect of a guilty plea. Brunner did...

BEMIDJI - The director of a local nonprofit has been sentenced for driving while impaired. Sarah Jane Einerson, 50, of Bemidji, on Aug. 6 was sentenced for gross misdemeanor second-degree DWI. Einerson is the executive director of Churches United, a church-based program that offers...

BEMIDJI - A 73-year-old Bemidji woman has pleaded not guilty to felony criminal sexual conduct. Janet Verjean Kern pleaded not guilty Aug. 7 to fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct with a victim who is mentally impaired or helpless. She entered the plea Aug. 6 before Beltrami County...

BEMIDJI - Three Bemidji men have filed for election to the Bemidji school board. Jeff Haack, John R. Truedson and Rob Warmboe on Monday filed paperwork dec-laring their candidacy for three four-year seats on the Bemidji school board. Two current board members - Ann Long Voelkner...

BEMIDJI - Many Beltrami Electric members will experience short service interruptions Tuesday and Aug. 21, a news release from the cooperative announced Monday. The planned interruptions are expected at 5 a.m. "These interruptions will be no more than a short 'blink' in power due...

DULUTH, Minn. -- An Iron Range nonprofit organization says it's successfully weaned itself from its dependence on the U.S. Postal Service. Minnesota Diversified Industries employs disabled and disadvantaged workers in Grand Rapids and Hibbing. MDI vice president Barbara Majerus...

AKELEY, Minn. -- Akeley's Paul Bunyan is a bit disheveled, and will likely remain that way until the city council hears from the League of Minnesota Cities regarding who holds proprietary rights to his upgrades. The council hired John's Body Shop of Park Rapids to repair vandalism...

GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn. -- More than 700 Lutherans are expected at a Twin Cities meeting next week involving a vote on whether a new denomination, the North American Lutheran Church, joins the Lutheran World Federation. Several congregations in the greater Red River Valley have affiliated...

DULUTH -- An arson fire extensively damaged a shelter at one of the ice rinks in Duluth's Morgan Park a week ago. "There was only one little section that didn't get burned," Duluth Fire Department Fire Marshal Marnie Grondahl said. "Part of the roof burned off." The roofed shelter...

For the first time, following a pattern of other large Protestant denominations cutting costs by cutting administration, the United Methodist Church in Minnesota and North Dakota and South Dakota will be led by one bishop. The Rev. Bruce Ough, who has been a bishop in the West Ohio...