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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – The fiancée of an “America’s Got Talent” contestant scrutinized for claims he was injured in Afghanistan says he made a “mistake” when he gave the show a photograph of a soldier instead …
08 Jun 12
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) – Minnesota’s annual Take-A-Kid Fishing weekend opens Friday – the weekend when adults can fish without a license while accompanying a child younger than 16. The Department of Natural Resources says …
08 Jun 12
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) – The 2012 Minnesota State Fair’s commemorative poster features a red rooster as its centerpiece. Fair officials unveiled the poster Wednesday. Artist Joe Heffron’s work in colored pencil features a rooster surrounded …
07 Jun 12
WALKER, Minn. (AP) – Authorities have recovered the body of a 55-year-old Walker man who apparently drowned while snorkeling in a northern Minnesota lake. Cass County sheriff’s officials got a call around 9 p.m. Tuesday …
07 Jun 12
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) – A Minnesota man with suspected ties to white supremacist groups has pleaded guilty to a weapons charge. Thirty-one-year-old Samuel J. Johnson of Austin, Minnesota pleaded guilty Wednesday to being a …
07 Jun 12
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) – The state has rejected a claim by graduate assistants at the University of Minnesota who claimed the school interfered with their attempts to unionize. The grad assistants and the United …
07 Jun 12
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – A spike in Minnesota motorcycle deaths is prompting safety officials to urge motorcycle riders and other drivers to share the road. The Department of Public Safety said Wednesday that 13 motorcycle riders …
07 Jun 12
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) – Twenty former lawmakers are trying to get back to the Minnesota Legislature. Minnesota Public Radio News reports that a pivotal election this November is prompting mainly former Democratic legislators to …
07 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 …
