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The 28th annual Grackle Days celebration in Winthrop is underway. The theme of this year’s festival is “Winthrop’s Got Talent.” Grackle Days highlights include a talent variety show, alumni basketball tournaments, the Grackle Egg Hunt, …
13 Apr 12
After four rounds of balloting Thursday night in Clara City DFL delegates from Senate District 17 failed to endorse a candidate to run for Senate, making a primary election necessary. In the end it didn’t …
13 Apr 12
Prosecutors now have the same rights of other Minnesotans to carry guns. The new law, crafted by Rep. Tony Cornish of Good Thunder and Sen. Bill Ingebrigtsen of Alexandria, easily passed the House and Senate …
13 Apr 12
The preparations to close one of the largest employers in the City of Arlington continue. Technical Services for Electronics recently announced that it would closing it’s 13,000 square-foot manufacturing plant in Arlington by the end …
12 Apr 12
A mental health evaluation to determine whether Darek Jon Nelson is competent to stand trial in the January 13th stabbing death of Vinessa Lozano has been filed with the District Court in Chippewa County. The …
12 Apr 12
An omnibus hearing scheduled for today (Thursday) has been canceled in the case of 81-year-old Delbert Edwin Huber, the rural Paynesville man indicted on first-degree murder charges for shooting and killing an Albertville man last …
12 Apr 12
Authorities have located a missing Hutchinson woman and her 3-year-old son. Hutchinson Police Sgt. Joe Nagel says 31-year-old Anne Marie Couillard and her son Charlie were found at about10am this morning (Wednesday) in Chicago safe …
12 Apr 12
Authorities have released the name of the man that died in an ATV crash last weekend in Stearns County. 19-year-old Daniel Nierenhausen of Avon died on the way to North Memorial Medical Center. Stearns County …
11 Apr 12
Next year’s Minnesota Governor’s Fishing Opener will be held in the Brainerd Lakes Area on May 8-11, 2014. Explore Minnesota Tourism, the state’s tourism promotion office, organizes this event each year in coordination with a host …
