Wed, Mar 26, 2014 - 2:18pm
FARGO – The Minnesota Girls Basketball Coaches Association announced its awards for coach of the year of each section. Ada-Borup’s David Smart won in Class 1A, Section 6, Verndale’s Art...
Wed, Mar 26, 2014 - 11:08am
Wed, Mar 26, 2014 - 8:58am
ST. PAUL — About 38,000 state workers are due to get raises after the House and Senate approved contracts. Members of several state worker unions last year approved the contract. It gives them a 3 percent raise each year in the current two-year budget, but also requires employees to pay more toward insurance. Rep. Steve Drazkowski, R-Mazeppa, said private employees are not seeing the same size raises.
Wed, Mar 26, 2014 - 8:52am
PELICAN RAPIDS, Minn. – The death of a 4-year-old Pelican Rapids girl, who fell ill after becoming infected with a dangerous strain of E. coli bacteria, was an isolated case, a health official said Monday. Sophia Amy Odens started having flu-like symptoms Feb. 5, and she was hospitalized the next day in Detroit Lakes, according to her obituary, which ran Sunday in The Forum. Odens was soon transferred to Sanford Medical Center in Fargo, and tests revealed she was infected with the O157:H7 strain of E. coli.
Sat, Mar 22, 2014 - 1:24pm
Spring has officially arrived, but we still have plenty of ice on the area lakes. It looks like we will continue to have ice available for ice anglers for at least the next two or three weeks (or four or five!). The season is closed for walleye, northern, and bass in our area, but avid ice anglers that enjoy chasing pan fish will enjoy the next several weeks. Pan fish action in the shallow water will continue to improve with the improving weather.
Sat, Mar 22, 2014 - 1:23pm
With warm weather on the way, many all-terrain vehicle (ATV) riders are anxious to hit the trails, but the Department of Natural Resources reminds riders to be aware of riding restrictions in some parts of the state due to wet conditions or closures. Between April 1 and Aug.
Fri, Mar 21, 2014 - 12:17pm
FARGO – Nancy Stromback was suddenly overcome by weakness two weeks ago while preparing to run an errand and was unable to move from the driver’s seat of her van. One of her daughters found her two hours later, and she was rushed by ambulance to the hospital in nearby Park Rapids, Minn., where doctors diagnosed a heart attack. At Essentia Health in Fargo, where she was transferred, a surgeon repaired two faulty valves in her heart. A few days after that major surgery, the cardiothoracic surgeon, Dr.
Fri, Mar 21, 2014 - 10:57am
David Sobieski of rural Perham for 2B and Roger Erickson of rural Baudette for 2A were endorsed as state representative candidates by Democractic-Farmer-Labor Party members from Senate District 2 during its endorsing convention on Friday. Sobieski, a small businessman from rural Perham —Butler Township in Otter Tail County—is running for public office for the first time as he vows to upset Freshman HD 2B Republican Steve Green in this fall’s general election. Rep. Erickson entered the legislature in the same freshman class of 2012 as Green.
Thu, Mar 20, 2014 - 12:53pm
Two fatal crashes in Minnesota on Monday, one west of Eden Valley and one south of Winthrop, are the latest incidents making March a deadly month on the state’s highways. According to the State Patrol’s preliminary numbers, there have been 19 deaths on Minnesota highways since March 1. That compares to nine deaths in 2013. There were three fatalities including a 5-year-old child who was killed in a head-on crash on U.S. Highway 169 south of St.
Thu, Mar 20, 2014 - 12:19pm
ST. PAUL -- Plans to train first responders such as firefighters to battle oil disasters are gaining traction in the Minnesota Legislature. "It takes just one of these trains at the wrong place at the wrong time for a catastrophe," Rep.
