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CANTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) – A Minnesota electronics company plans to manufacture flat-screen televisions at a plant in suburban Detroit under a partnership with a Michigan-based business. The Detroit Free Press reports Tuesday that Element …
17 Jan 12
Gov. Mark Dayton says the state can help create jobs by issuing $775 milion in bonds for construction projects around the state.
17 Jan 12
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – The family of a Minnesota couple missing after a cruise ship capsized off the coast of Italy say they have received no word on the couple. The death toll from the Costa …
17 Jan 12
On Friday Scott County Attorney’s office charged Jose De Jesus Ortega-Mora, 29, with first degree sale of drugs after he admitted to police that he had resided at a drug safe house in Shakopee at …
17 Jan 12
SHELL LAKE, Wis. (AP) – A 24-year-old snowmobiler died when he ran into a barbed-wire fence and trees in northwestern Wisconsin’s Washburn County. The Star Tribune reports Ryan Anderson of Sarona died Sunday in an …
17 Jan 12
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) – The Senate Republican Caucus has named former Minnesota House Speaker Steve Sviggum as its executive assistant and communications director. Senate Majority Leader David Senjem announced Sviggum’s appointment on Monday. Senjem …
17 Jan 12
SUPERIOR, Wis. (AP) – The brother of a man shot dead in Superior says he suspects drug activities were involved. Antron Cooper, of Minneapolis, says his brother Toriano Dawen Cooper had a drug problem much …
17 Jan 12
MOORHEAD, Minn. (AP) – American Crystal Sugar Co. has rejected a proposal to end the cooperative’s lengthy lockout of its union employees. The company posted a statement Monday calling the union’s proposal a “publicity stunt” …
17 Jan 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 …
