Nikki’s Notebook: Lights On For After School
Event Scheduled For Thursday Night
Keeping the lights on, and the doors open after school is a practice a group in Duluth hopes to expand.
Harley-Davidson, Inc. says it expects to lay off about 225 salaried employees by the end of the year to cut costs amid a sluggish U.S. motorcycle market.
Authorities believe human remains found by hunters in northwestern Wisconsin might be those of a man who has been missing for more than 10 years.
Authorities have made a second arrest in the fatal shooting of a baby and a man near a Minneapolis park.
Two Wisconsin Indian tribes have raised concerns about another tribe’s expansion of a once-limited gambling hall into a larger casino and hotel east of Wausau.The Stockbridge-Munsee and Menominee tribes say allowing the expansion of Ho-Chunk Wittenberg goes against the past criteria for growth in gambling that Gov. Scott Walter established and used to block a casino the Menominee sought in Kenosha.The Ho-Chunk and Walker say Wisconsin doesn’t have the authority to intervene in this case because the Ho-Chunk are staying within the letter of a 2003 compact with the state.Stockbridge-Munsee president Shannon Holsey and general counsel Dennis Puzz say they don’t think the Walker administration fully grasps the potential for the expansion to lead to more expansions by the Ho-Chunk and at least two other tribes at casinos that aren’t currently major sites.
The final 2016 Presidential Debate between Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton will take place tonight at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Landline telephone service has been disrupted in the townships of Bennett, Solon Springs, Gordon, and Wascott.
Officials say a new pool of mosquitoes taken from Miami Beach has tested positive for Zika.
New results form the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction show less than half of public and private school students taking the new statewide test are proficient or advanced in English language arts, math, and science.
Republican Governor Scott Walker is hinting he won’t seek a fourth term.
Prince’s siblings say a woman and girl purported to be the singer’s niece and grandniece, have no genetic connection to Prince and should not be named as heirs to his estate.
St. Louis County will be closing its final storm debris drop-off site set up following the destructive July windstorms.
The body of a missing Winona State University freshman has been found.
The clock is ticking for Minnesotans and Wisconsinites who still want to pre-register to vote online.
A St. Cloud youth center has been fined after authorities say three teenagers suffered injuries from “daily and persistent” head-banging.
Two girls accused of trying to kill their classmate as a sacrifice to horror character, Slender Man, now want separate trials.
Pennsylvania authorities say a Minnesota man has been arrested on charges involving the murder of 76-year-old Pennsylvania woman a quarter-century ago.
UPDATE: The Itasca County Sheriff’s Office reports that Danette Andrist was found deceased in Aitkin County this afternoon. Foul play is not suspected.
WIS 13 near Highbridge in Ashland County will reopen to all traffic, a month ahead of schedule. During the strong storms that tore through the region on July 11, two culverts washed out at Silver Creek and Trout Brook.
The Superior Police Department is investigating what they believe to be a random robbery and brutal beating of a woman.
A new report shows the state finished the last fiscal year in the black.
Target has decided to pull clown masks from its stores and online.
A Minnesota woman has pleaded guilty to assault for attacking another woman in a restaurant because she was speaking Swahili.
The Iron Range Resources and Rehabilitation Board (IRRRB) will consider at Monday, October 17’s meeting whether to loan $1.5 million to an aircraft parts manufacturing facility.
The family of the late state Senator Rick Gudex of Fond du Lac says he suffered from depression.
A group of scuba divers donned flippers and wet suits to carve pumpkins underwater as part of a pre-Halloween tradition in Michigan.
Bentleyville Bars On Sale In October
Keeping the lights on, and the doors open after school is a practice a group in Duluth hopes to expand.
The Minnesota State Patrol says a motorist died when his minivan collided head-on with a school bus near the southeastern Minnesota town of Minneiska.
California officials have denied parole for a follower of cult leader, Charles Manson, who is serving a life prison term for murder he committed 47 years ago.
A 6-week-old baby has died after a stroller crashed down a Brooklyn elevator shaft Thursday, police said.
The Duluth Police Department issues a traffic advisory for the UMD Homecoming Parade, Saturday, October 15.
The Minnesota Department of Transportation has temporarily suspended work on the Highway 169 Cross-Range Project near Taconite due to an unforeseen soil stability issue. Work is expected to resume sometime after October 31, 2016.
The Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs is launching a program to train family members, volunteers, and others who have firsthand contact with veterans to recognize signs that they are suicidal.
Governor Scott Walker is asking students in Wisconsin schools to submit ornaments for the Capitol Christmas Tree.
A majority of the striking nurses represented by the Minnesota Nurses Association have voted in favor of the tentative agreement with Allina Health on October 11, 2016.
For this week’s Active Adventures, FOX 21’s William Seay catches his first Pokemon.
Survivors talk about finding support and friendship.
Wildlife managers are predicting good hunting when Minnesota’s pheasant season opens Saturday.
The City of Hermantown is saving nearly $1 million in interest over the next ten years. On Monday, October 3, 2016, the City Council approved re-financing $5,455,000 of debt on the existing Governmental Services building.
The Superior National Forest has canceled plans for four prescribed burns this fall within the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.
A judge has ordered a rare prison sentence in a case of Social Security fraud in southeastern Michigan.
Special hunts to prevent overpopulation of deer and protect resources will take place this fall at several Minnesota State Parks, and access to the parks will vary during these hunts, according to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources.
A Sioux Falls man is accused of sitting on a woman and slicing her nipples off with a pair of scissors.
For this week’s Cooking Connection we mixed up some cocktails with bartender Cade Grover from The Rathskeller.
The police chief in La Crosse says a county judge compromised courtroom safety when she told officers testifying in a police battery case to come to the trial unarmed.
UPDATE: Nicolas David was found SAFE in Faribault.
Singer-songwriter Bob Dylan won the 2016 Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday, a stunning announcement that for the first time bestowed the prestigious award on a musician for “having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.”
Wells Fargo’s embattled CEO John Stumpf is stepping down as the nation’s second-largest bank is roiled by a scandal over its sales practices.
The former owner of the Duluth head shop, Last Place on Earth, was dealt a huge blow Tuesday, October 11, after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear his appeal.
The original painting for the movie poster for “E.T. The Extraterrestrial” has sold for almost $400,000 at auction.