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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Enbridge Energy Partners says it’s investigating the cause of a crude oil leak at its pumping station in the northwestern Minnesota town of Viking. The leak was discovered Tuesday afternoon. Enbridge spokesman …
26 Apr 13
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) – Minnesota is inching closer to 200 flu deaths this season. The state Department of Health says four more influenza-related deaths were confirmed last week. That brings Minnesota’s influenza death toll …
26 Apr 13
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) – Minnesota’s state House has backed a higher education financing package that architects say will freeze undergraduate tuition at public colleges for two years. The plan passed Thursday by a bipartisan …
26 Apr 13
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) – The state Senate has passed its education budget to provide funding for all-day kindergarten. The $15.6 billion package spends the most of all budget bills in the Senate. It passed …
26 Apr 13
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) – Minnesota’s Senate has approved a budget for state health and assistance programs that includes a surcharge on HMOs and pay increases for care workers that critics say aren’t big enough. …
26 Apr 13
ST. CLOUD, Minn. (AP) – Police have arrested a 19-year-old man and three juveniles after a cab driver was robbed in St. Cloud. The cab driver was robbed late Tuesday after he picked up two …
25 Apr 13
BURNSVILLE, Minn. (AP) – Authorities have confirmed skeletal remains found in a Burnsville park are those of a 61-year-old man missing for a year. The Hennepin County medical examiner identified the remains as those of …
25 Apr 13
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – One of two convicted con artists who walked away from a minimum-security prison camp in Duluth now faces a federal escape indictment. The U.S. Attorney’s office says 64-year-old Michael Krzyzaniak of Minneapolis …
25 Apr 13
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 …
