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MOORHEAD — The Moorhead Police Department has released a surveillance video that shows a school bus driver using a racial slur and leaving about 20 Horizon Middle School students stranded in the city's industrial park last month. The video captured the white driver, David Russell Miller, arguing with a black student. During the back-and-forth, the student called Miller an N-word twice, according to Miller and a police report.
LITTLE FALLS, Minn. -- In a basement meeting room of the Morrison County Government Center Wednesday, Pam Brisk pleaded for information on who killed her husband a month ago. “I am here today to ask for your help in bringing to a close the nightmare that started for myself, my family and all of Terry’s family and friends one month ago,” she said. “Waking up without him has been extremely hard for both myself and my kids.”
ST. CLOUD, Minn. — A Republican Minnesota Senate candidate apparently won an election recount, meaning the GOP will control the body 34-33 when the 2017 Legislature begins Jan. 3. The St. Cloud Times reports that the recount ended Wednesday, Dec. 7, with Republican Jerry Relph winning by 141 votes. The original count after the Nov. 8 election had him beating Democrat Dan Wolgamott by 148 votes. The state Canvassing Board must sign off on the numbers Monday to make the results official.
ST. PAUL — Minnesota House Speaker Kurt Daudt last week said in a news conference with the governor and other legislative leaders that Wednesday, Dec. 7, was the deadline for agreeing to issues to come up during a special legislative session dealing with health insurance costs, public works financing and taxes. But on Wednesday, Gov. Mark Dayton said there was no such deadline. Dayton told reporters that work of legislators and governor's staffers to write bills can extend into next week for a proposed Dec. 20 special session.
Minnesota has been named the second best run state, according to a company that distributes financial news and opinion articles. In a 24/7 Wall St. study released Tuesday, Dec. 6, North Dakota received top marks for its oil resources, unemployment rate and median home value. Rounding out the top five, the study ranked Minnesota, Nebraska, Wyoming and Utah as the next best run states.
Minnesota has been named the second best run state, according to a company that distributes financial news and opinion articles. In a 24/7 Wall St. study released Tuesday, Dec. 6, North Dakota received top marks for its oil resources, unemployment rate and median home value. Rounding out the top five, the study ranked Minnesota, Nebraska, Wyoming and Utah as the next best run states.
FARGO – A man considered a suspect in the disappearance of a Twin Cities woman has been charged with manslaughter following the discovery of human remains in rural Cass County, according to the sheriff's office. Sheriff’s deputies found the remains Friday, Dec. 2, while searching a specific location for the missing woman, 45-year-old Michelle Newell of Vadnais Heights, Minn. The suspect, 51-year-old Timothy Barr, had told authorities where to look, the sheriff’s office said.
MOORHEAD, Minn. – A Moorhead woman who was charged with a dozen counts of child neglect after being accused of taking a group of children she was baby sitting to a swimming pool last summer when she was intoxicated was sentenced Monday, Dec. 5, to 15 days in jail, two days of which she has already served. Chelsea M. Gapp, 23, earlier pleaded guilty in Clay County District Court to one count of child neglect. Eleven other counts Gapp had been facing have been dismissed.
MOORHEAD, Minn -- Moorhead firefighters rescued a woman standing in waist-deep Red River water the afternoon of Sunday, Dec. 4. A man walking his dog along the bike path near 100 Third St. N. heard the woman, described as possibly in her 60s, crying for help, said Capt. Eric Berg of the Moorhead Fire Department. Five firefighters, including one in a water suit, pulled the woman to shore, Berg said. It’s believed the woman had been in the water for about 15 minutes. She had been clinging to a tree branch.
SARTELL, Minn. - Two people suffered minor injuries in a two-vehicle crash at 9:52 last night in Sartell, Minnesota. Angela Schlangen of Sartell, Minnesota was traveling Northbound on Highway 15. As she turned left onto County Road 1 she was struck by a GMC K15. Theresa Brown of Waverly, Minnesota, the driver of the GMC K15, was traveling Southbound on Highway 15 when she hit Schlangen’s Toyota Rav 4. Roads were wet when the crash happened.