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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – University of Minnesota athletics director Joel Maturi will leave his post when his contract expires this summer. School officials and the 67-year-old Maturi announced his retirement Thursday at a late morning news …
02 Feb 12
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) – The push is on to make Minnesota a state where union membership is optional at companies that have unions. Several Republicans proposed Thursday to add a so-called right to work …
02 Feb 12
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Authorities say the manhunt is over for two Native Mob members, but one man is still at large. The U.S. Attorney’s Office says Thursday that 33-year-old Wakinyan Wakan McArthur of Bemidji and …
02 Feb 12
NEW ULM, Minn. (AP) – Administrators at a New Ulm elementary school have contacted parents of fifth-grade students after some children played a disturbing recess game they call “rape tag.” A letter from Washington Elementary …
02 Feb 12
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) – A former St. Paul police clerk has been found civilly liable in the 1981 death of his girlfriend. A Ramsey County judge has awarded $2 million to each of Barbara …
02 Feb 12
CHANHASSEN, Minn. (AP) – Amid a mild winter that’s sparing Minnesota the need to spread as much road salt as it often does, experts and officials will be gathering in Chaska to learn about ways …
02 Feb 12
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Hennepin County will pay $15,000 to a Minneapolis woman charged with trespassing during the Occupy Minnesota demonstrations last year. Melissa Lynn Hill was issued a trespass notice Oct. 13 for writing slogans …
02 Feb 12
DULUTH, Minn. (AP) – Prosecutors have determined there is “no chargeable crime” in the death of a janitor who was found dead in a downtown Duluth elevator last month. Police say 62-year-old Edward Everett Olson …
02 Feb 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 …
