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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) – Minnesota lawmakers are off and running in the 2012 legislative session. The state House and Senate convened at noon Tuesday for short sessions. They were limited to ceremonial and organizational …
24 Jan 12
NEW ULM, Minn. (AP) – Taxpayers in New Ulm and Sleepy Eye have another chance to voice their opinions on moving to a four-day school week in order to save money. Both districts will hold …
24 Jan 12
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) – The Department of Natural Resources is urging Minnesotans to help nongame wildlife by donating to the Wildlife Checkoff Fund on their state tax forms. Nongame Wildlife Program supervisor Carrol Henderson …
24 Jan 12
DULUTH, Minn. (AP) – A Minnesota appeals court says a jury should decide whether a Duluth man defamed a local doctor by posting derogatory comments about his bedside manner on rate-your-doctor websites. The appeals court …
24 Jan 12
FARGO, N.D. (AP) – Authorities say they have linked a North Dakota man arrested in a large theft of tools to nine other crimes in Montana, North Dakota and Minnesota. Twenty-seven-year-old Brandon Bailey of Fargo …
24 Jan 12
STILLWATER, Minn. (AP) – A nurse from western Wisconsin has been sentenced to three years of probation for stealing painkillers from a Stillwater hospital. Forty-five-year-old Della Rae Thalin of New Richmond was sentenced in federal …
24 Jan 12
DAHLGREN TOWNSHIP, Minn. (AP) – Firefighters in Carver County say they found the body of a woman while fighting a house fire in Dahlgren Township. The sheriff’s department got a 911 call shortly before 8 …
24 Jan 12
LANDER, Wyo. (AP) – Authorities say a man who spent the night stranded on the Continental Divide Trail in blizzard conditions had been snowmobiling with a commercial guide service that did not notice he was …
24 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 …
