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KCHK’s Summer Prize Extravaganza

susan — Fri, 17 May 2013 15:49:14 +0000

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 great prizes just yet, but rumor has it, one of them is a Louisiana Wood Pellet Grill from Union Hill Grills which will be the prize for July. What will the the June, August, and September prizes be? Listen, learn, and win!

Judge convicts man in triple killing at Minn. home

susan — Fri, 17 May 2013 15:43:36 +0000

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – A Minnesota judge has found a Missouri man guilty in the shooting deaths of three people at a Brooklyn Park home day care last year.

Hennepin County Judge Todd Barnette issued his verdict Thursday against 35-year-old Eddie Mosley after hearing the non-jury trial that ended last week.

Mosley was charged with first-degree murder in the April 9th, 2012, shooting deaths of 59-year-old DeLois Brown, a home day-care provider, and her parents, 83-year-old James Bolden Sr. and 81-year-old Clover Bolden.

Prosecutors argued Mosley drove from his home in St. Louis to Brooklyn Park intending to kill a girl he was accused of sexually assaulting in Minnesota. But the girl was not at Brown’s home. The Star Tribune reports the defense argued Mosley had no motive to kill the victims.

— Information in the following story is from: Star Tribune, http://www.startribune.com

KCHK’s Summer Prize Extravaganza!

susan — Thu, 16 May 2013 16:11:54 +0000

Eric Westin

susan — Tue, 14 May 2013 14:53:43 +0000

Eric Westin, 45 of Pine City, MN passed away on unexpectedly on Sunday, May 12th at St. Cloud Hospital in St. Cloud, MN.

Survived by: fiancée, Carolyn Yu, Phillipines; son, Jacob (fiancée Tayler Donais) Westin of Ft. Drum, NY; daughter, Erica Westin of Soudan; step daughter, Jessica Meehan of Northfield; parents, Dale and Sharon Westin of Prior Lake; sister, Jodi Fritz of Hampton; brothers, Jason Westin of Prior Lake and Justin Westin of Belle Plaine; grandmothers, Gladys Westin of Hayfield, Lorraine Munson of Hayfield

Visitation will be on Saturday, May 18th from 10-11AM with the Memorial Service to follow, 11 AM at Ballard-Sunder Funeral Home, Prior Lake, Minnesota.

funeral arrangements by Ballard Sunder Funeral Home, Prior Lake, Minnesota

Jim Bartels Inducted Into MN FFA HOF

susan — Thu, 02 May 2013 20:03:57 +0000

Congratulations to Jim Bartels on being a 2013 inductee into the Minnesota FFA Association Hall of Fame.

2nd Minn. prison camp escapee charged

susan — Wed, 01 May 2013 17:10:53 +0000

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – The federal government has charged a convicted con artist with escape for walking away from a minimum-security prison camp in Duluth.

Sixty-seven-year-old Gerald Greenfield was charged Tuesday with one count of escape from custody.

Greenfield was apprehended after six days on the run with another convicted con artist who left the camp, 64-year-old Michael Krzyzaniak of Minneapolis.

The two were discovered missing from the prison camp on March 30. The pair was arrested April 5 at a Burnsville motel after investigators got a tip.

Krzyzaniak recently was indicted on one count of escape from custody.

If convicted, Greenfield faces a potential maximum penalty of five years in prison, which could be added to his sentence.

Greenfield’s attorney, Fred Bruno, says he’s negotiating to resolve the charge against his client.

Worker dies in northern Minn. lumber mill fall

susan — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 15:53:20 +0000

BEMIDJI, Minn. (AP) – Minnesota OSHA is investigating why a catwalk fell inside a forestry mill near Bemidji, sending a worker to his death.

The Hubbard County sheriff’s office says 23-year-old Mitchell Harthan of Grand Rapids, Minn., fell to his death Saturday afternoon at the Potlatch Lumber Mill.

Authorities say Harthan was doing maintenance work about 40 to 50 feet overhead when a section of catwalk he was standing on fell.

Harthan died at the scene. He was a Potlatch employee for the past two years.

A Potlatch spokesman says the Spokane, Wash.-based company is “deeply saddened” by the employee’s death.

The Star Tribune reports the state ranks Potlatch as one of the safest companies operating in Minnesota. It was the company’s first fatality at the mill since it opened in 1990.

Rod Tietz at True Life Real Estate Solutions

susan — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 17:16:49 +0000

Our great friend and advertiser Rod Tietz at True Life Real Estate Solutions on main street in New Prague continues to be a great promoter of the stations. This recent message references our FM call letter change from KRDS back to KCHK.

Police: 2 deaths in Bagley apparent murder-suicide

susan — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 15:36:29 +0000

BAGLEY, Minn. (AP) – Police says the deaths of a 41-year-old man and his mother in northern Minnesota appear to be a murder-suicide.

Bagley Police Chief Larry Peterson identifies the victims as Jack Gerbracht of Bagley and his 64-year-old mother, Darlene Gerbracht.

Preliminary autopsy results indicate the two were shot to death.

Clearwater County sheriff’s authorities found the bodies at a home in Bagley after getting a 911 call Monday evening.

The mother and son did not live together. Police are still investigating.

SPCO, locked-out musicians reach tentative deal

susan — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 15:37:14 +0000

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) – The St. Paul Chamber Orchestra and its musicians have reached a tentative deal that would end a 6-month lockout.

Musicians and SPCO management announced the proposed contract agreement Tuesday night. The proposal will be taken to the musicians union for a vote, and concerts will return while the two sides work out details.

Musician negotiator Carole Mason Smith tells Minnesota Public Radio News her committee will recommend musicians accept the proposal.

If approved, the musicians’ annual pay will be cut by $15,000, and the orchestra will be reduced by six players to 24. However, the musicians will have greater artistic control over the SPCO’s performances and repertoire.