Le Center limits where Level 3 offenders can live; ice anglers are too messy, DNR says
Plus: Moorhead has too many students; Faribault RadioShack survives; crime is down in Northfield; and more.
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Minnesota climate report predicts ‘serious consequences for human health’
ALSO: Former Brownsdale chief gets seven and a half years; sex tape of underage girl is free speech, lawyer says; and more.
Diocese plan calls for vast changes for Catholics in Southern Minnesota
ALSO: DNA match solves 1981 Duluth killing; Bobby Vee’s sons digitizing dad’s recordings; and more.
What’s Up Lounge closes in Mankato; blast destroys house near Bemidji
ALSO: Austin community college students favor free tuition; North Dakota teens are better sleepers; and more.
More than 100 gather to bury Winona veteran who died alone
ALSO: Proposal would increase pheasant quality; Northeast Minnesota health-care costs questioned; Winona Diocese won’t file for bankruptcy; and more.
Activists fear state’s ring-necked pheasant population is at a crossroads
ALSO: Rochester likes idea of free community-college tuition; building permits are booming in St. Cloud; Worthington considers a new high school; and more.
Fewer Minnesotans arrested for DWI over New Year’s
ALSO: Austin’s Amanda Hocking has new book out; railroad improvements include a crossing in Winona; 4 dogs, 3 cats die in Rochester house fire; and more.
Last saltie of the shipping season leaves Duluth-Superior
ALSO: Waseca man’s police chase hits 150 mph; all-day kindergarten worth the cost in Owatonna; Duluth creek turns the color of the Grinch; and more.
Lowest voter turnout in ’14: Winona and Blue Earth counties
ALSO: Barn fire kills hundreds of hogs in Freeborn County; anhydrous ammonia leak leads to evacuations in Clarks Grove; and more.
New Ulm Medical Center takes steps to improve chronic-disease care
ALSO: Dumbwaiter was functioning properly at time of student’s death; FBI help likely in $500,000 jewelry heist; and more.
Duluth seed-sharers and state look for common ground
ALSO: St. Cloud has a November for the records; Moorhead family happy about medical marijuana; company proposes new route for oil pipeline; and more.
Hormel hits record $9.3 billion in sales
ALSO: Lake ice is still too thin for anglers; influenza hits Rochester; Wells suspends police officer but won’t say why; and more.
Still no answers in Oct. 17 Jennie-O plant illnesses
ALSO: Snowfall suddenly ends harvest; Mankato wants to be Silicon Valley of agribusiness; Arrowhead hospitals form loose partnership; and more.
Outstate veterans recall their days in service
ALSO: Low crop prices hit Minnesota farmers; Bemidji area sees higher poverty than rest of state; Cloquet skit draws calls of racial insensitivity; and more.
Meteor shower has people in Bemidji sharing sighting stories
ALSO: Someone takes Freeborn County cop data; wells with high arsenic levels; Wasecans busted with gym bag full of cash; Winonan finds money, gives it back.
Great week for harvest, but corn yields are low
ALSO: Northfield named top city for retirement; movie made in Zumbrota brings smiles; Plainview mom brings attention to drunken driving; and more.
Willmar Jennie-O plant gets the once-over from OSHA
Plus: Airman who gave cop ‘wet willie’ arrested; DNR to keep deer harvest low; enrollment at Bemidji State drops a bit; Rice County Fair in the black this year
Harvest unveils storm damage in Southwest Minnesota
ALSO: Campaign sign leads to trouble in Freeborn County; somebody robs a Worthington concession stand; somebody else takes $3 from patron in Austin laundry; and more.
Gas falls below $3 a gallon in Duluth; city sees high number of songbird deaths
ALSO: Mower County crops look good; Bemidji student appears in U.N. video; Brainerd family searches for missing teen daughter; and more.
Mourners in Sartell remember slain NDSU student; Duluth to restore its city hall
ALSO: Huge muskie caught in Crane Lake; Rochester police still investigate riot; Mankato couple going off the grid; and more.
