Local News, Multimedia, Sports - The Local Connection
MOTLEY, Minn. (AP) – Searchers have found the body of a missing trapper in an all-terrain vehicle crash in northern Minnesota. Cass County sheriff’s authorities got a report early Wednesday of a trapper missing in …
14 Jun 12
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Authorities have released the name of a 16-year-old girl who drowned in Cedar Lake in Minneapolis. The Hennepin County medical examiner’s office on Wednesday identified the victim as Chiccena Carpenter of Minneapolis. …
14 Jun 12
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – A 21-year-old Marine from Minnesota has died in Afghanistan. The Department of Defense said Thursday that Cpl. Taylor J. Baune, of Andover, died in combat Wednesday in Helmand province, Afghanistan. Baune was …
14 Jun 12
DULUTH, Minn. (AP) – A funeral is set for Tuesday for a 13-year-old Duluth boy who died after being underwater in Lake Superior for more than a half-hour. Thirteen-year-old Jeffery Carlos Watson Jr. was swimming …
14 Jun 12
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) – Safety officials say Minnesota’s traffic deaths in 2011 were the state’s lowest annual death count since 1944. Officials on Wednesday released Minnesota’s final traffic crash report for 2011. It shows …
14 Jun 12
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – The University of Minnesota athletics department appears to be making improvements in the classroom. The school released its results in the latest NCAA academic progress report on Wednesday. The report includes data …
14 Jun 12
DULUTH, Minn. (AP) – A teenager who was pulled from Lake Superior off the Duluth shore has died. The St. Louis County sheriff’s office says 13-year-old Jeffrey Watson Junior died about 3:45 p.m. Tuesday at …
13 Jun 12
FREEBORN, Minn. (AP) – Fire officials say an uncapped sewage line was the cause of an explosion that injured a man last week near the southern Minnesota town of Freeborn. Fire Chief Steve Seipp (SIPE) …
13 Jun 12
Listen for details coming soon on KCHK’s Summer Prize Extravaganza! We’re going to give our listeners a chance to win a series of prizes over the Summer, June thru September. We can’t announce all the …
