NEW YORK – CNN is suing the Trump administration, demanding that correspondent Jim Acosta’s press credentials to cover the White House be returned. The administration revoked them last week following President Trump’s contentious news conference, where Acosta refused to give up a microphone when the president said he didn’t want to hear anything more from him. The lawsuit was filed…
DETROIT LAKES, Minn. – Authorities in northwestern Minnesota are asking for the public’s help as they investigate an apparent hunting accident that killed a former police chief. Becker County Sheriff Todd Glander says a preliminary autopsy indicates 53-year-old Jay Clayton Nelson died of a gunshot wound. Glander confirms to KFGO Radio that Nelson was former police chief of Lake Park,…
STEVENS POINT, Wis. – University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point officials have reduced the number of majors slated for elimination by more than half. The school in March proposed eliminating 13 programs to help cope with a projected $4.5 million budget deficit over two years. University officials announced Monday that they’ve modified the proposal to cut six majors, including French, German, geoscience,…
BARABOO, Wis. — A Wisconsin school district is investigating a photo of a group of high school boys giving what appears to be a Nazi salute. Baraboo Superintendent Lori Mueller says she became aware of the photo Monday after it was posted on social media. Mueller says the photo appears to have been taken last spring and wasn’t on school…
MADISON, Wis. – The state Department of Natural Resources is refusing to release records detailing allegations an agency employee harassed female co-workers, saying human beings make mistakes. The Associated Press obtained a March 2018 disciplinary letter informing a DNR employee that he or she would be suspended for a day in April. According to the letter, the employee became drunk…
ST. PAUL, Minn. – Chronic wasting disease has been detected in four deer at a quarantined farm in Crow Wing County. The Minnesota Board of Animal Health has been monitoring the farm since December 2016 when two white-tailed deer tested positive for the disease. The Department of Natural Resources is currently in the second year of sampling wild deer for…
(Twitter)ST. PAUL, Minn. – Legislative leadership is changing at the Minnesota Capitol after Democrats wrested control of the state House. Democrats won the House majority in Tuesday’s election by flipping 18 mostly suburban districts held by Republicans. It ends the GOP’s four-year hold on the House and ushers in a new House Speaker. Democrats chose Rep. Melissa Hortman to be…
NEW YORK – Environmentalists are lauding a federal court order that blocks a Trump administration permit for the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, pending an environmental review. The pipeline would begin in Alberta and shuttle as much as 830,000 barrels a day of crude through a half dozen states to terminals on the Gulf Coast. U.S. District Judge Brian…
MADISON, Wis. – A Wisconsin political activist who unsuccessfully ran for House Speaker Paul Ryan’s seat in the last two Republican primaries has been indicted on charges alleging that he tried to buy a lethal dose of radioactive material in order to kill someone. The U.S. Attorney’s Office said Thursday that 30-year-old Jeremy Ryan has been formally charged with attempting…
ST. PAUL, Minn. – Two political parties advocating legalization of marijuana in Minnesota are poised to get a boost. Preliminary results show the Grassroots-Legalize Cannabis Party and the Legal Marijuana Now Party both received at least 5 percent of the vote in a statewide contest in Tuesday’s midterm elections, enough to earn major party status in Minnesota. The Secretary of…
(AP Photo/Jim Mone)ST. PAUL, Minn. – Bob Naegele Jr., the founding owner of the Minnesota Wild, has died of complications from cancer. He was 78. The Wild said Naegele died on Wednesday night with his family by his side. Players will wear a jersey patch with his initials for the remainder of the season, and a moment of silence will…
DETROIT – Subaru is recalling nearly 400,000 vehicles in the U.S. to fix two problems that can cause them to stall. The first recall covers about 229,000 Outback and Legacy vehicles from the 2018 model year. Government documents say a software problem can stop the low-fuel warning light from illuminating and make the miles-to-empty display inaccurate. The problem can cause…
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court says 85-year-old Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg fractured three ribs in a fall in her office at the court and is in the hospital. The court says the justice went to George Washington University Hospital in Washington early Thursday after experiencing discomfort overnight. The court says the fall occurred Wednesday evening. Ginsburg was admitted to the…
(RMG News via AP)THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. – Using a smoke bomb and a handgun, a hooded gunman dressed all in black opened fire during “college night” at a country music bar in Southern California, killing 12 people and sending hundreds fleeing in terror, authorities said Thursday. The gunman was later found dead. Authorities said the motive for the attack Wednesday…
(Jeff Wheeler/Star Tribune via AP)LAKE HALLIE, Wis. – Funeral arrangements are set for three Girl Scouts and a mother who were killed in a hit-and-run in rural northwestern Wisconsin. A funeral service for 32-year-old Sara Schneider and her 10-year-old daughter, Haylee Hickle, will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday at the Chippewa Valley Bible Church in Chippewa Falls. Nine-year-old Jayna…
MADISON, Wis. – Gov. Scott Walker has conceded defeat to Democrat Tony Evers. Walker says he called Evers on Wednesday to concede defeat. The two-term Republican incumbent had held off conceding because the race was so close, but his campaign decided Wednesday there were not enough votes in play to change the outcome. Based on unofficial results, Evers won by…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Jeff Sessions resigned Wednesday as the country’s chief law enforcement officer after enduring more than a year of blistering and personal attacks over his recusal from the Russia investigation. Sessions announced his resignation in a letter to President Donald Trump. He said the resignation came at “your request.” Trump announced in a separate tweet that he was…
MINNEAPOLIS – Minnesota voter turnout was the highest it’s been for a midterm election since 2002. According to preliminary estimates from the Secretary of State’s Office, nearly 2.6 million Minnesotans voted in-person on Tuesday or by absentee ballot. That’s about 63.8 percent of eligible voters in the state. Midterm election turnout hasn’t been that high since 2002, when turnout was…
MADISON, Wis. (AP) – Democrat Tony Evers ousted Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker in the state’s closest governor’s race in more than half a century. A Republican and one-time presidential candidate, Walker was denied a third term in a long-sought Democratic victory in Wisconsin. Democrat Tony Evers’ running mate Mandela Barnes will become the first African American lieutenant governor in Wisconsin history. The…
MILWAUKEE, Wis.-About 47,000 uncounted ballots in Milwaukee County could determine the winner of the race for Wisconsin governor. The city of Milwaukee’s elections commissioner, Neil Albrecht, says 47,000 ballots were to be counted by 1 a.m. Wednesday. The race between Republican Gov. Scott Walker and Democrat Tony Evers was too close to call as of midnight with 94 percent of…
ST. PAUL, Minn.-Democrat Keith Ellison has been elected Minnesota attorney general, surviving ex-girlfriend’s abuse claim . Ellison gave up a safe seat in Congress to seek the post, and he should have been a heavy favorite in a state that has not elected a Republican attorney general in half a century. But an ex-girlfriend’s domestic abuse accusation – which he…
HAYWARD, Wis.-Almost all of Wisconsin’s congressional incumbents have retained their jobs. Democrat Mark Pocan won re-election Tuesday in southern Wisconsin’s 2nd Congressional District; Democrat Ron Kind won another two years representing western Wisconsin’s 3rd Congressional District; and Democrat Gwen Moore won re-election in Milwaukee’s 4th Congressional District. Republicans Jim Sensenbrenner and Sean Duffy retained their seats in southeastern Wisconsin’s 5th…
(AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. – Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar has easily won a third term in Minnesota. Klobuchar defeated Republican state Rep. Jim Newberger on Tuesday. It comes as Klobuchar’s name swirls amid the crop of potential Democratic presidential candidates for 2020. The race was never close. Newberger is a little-known state lawmaker who struggled to raise money against…
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. – Tim Walz says his election as Minnesota’s governor and high voter turnout is proof that the state’s “can-do spirit” is alive and well. Walz defeated second-time Republican candidate Jeff Johnson on Tuesday. Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton chose not to run for a third term. Walz was the favorite throughout the race, but his victory was still unusual….
(Star Tribune via AP File)MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. – Democratic Sen. Tina Smith says she’s humbled by the Minnesota voters who elected her to fill out former Sen. Al Franken’s term. Smith defeated Republican state Sen. Karin Housley in Tuesday’s special election. The race was triggered by Franken’s resignation in January amid a growing sexual misconduct scandal. Smith told supporters at a…
CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis. – A western Wisconsin sheriff says a 10-year-old girl charged with first-degree intentional homicide dropped a 6-month-old baby and, when the infant cried, she panicked and stomped on the child’s head. The girl appeared in restraints in Chippewa County Circuit Court for a bond hearing Monday. She is charged as an adult under Wisconsin law. Prosecutors say…
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Minnesota elections officials are anticipating a high voter turnout for Tuesday’s midterm elections. Minnesota Secretary of State spokesman Ben Petok says as of Tuesday morning, elections officials had received nearly 615,000 absentee and mail-in ballots. That’s close to the more than 650,000 absentee and mail-in ballots received for the presidential election two years ago. Petok says he…
(Chippewa County (Wis.) Sheriff’s Office via AP)LAKE HALLIE, Wis. – Wisconsin prosecutors have filed vehicular homicide charges against a 21-year-old man who police say was inhaling chemical vapors before he crashed his truck into a group of Girl Scouts, killing three children and one adult. The 11 charges filed against Colten Treu on Tuesday include four counts of vehicular homicide…
CROCKERY TOWNSHIP, Mich. – A western Michigan man will spend the rest of his life in prison in the fatal shooting of a neighbor as she cleared snow near her home. WOOD-TV reports that 64-year-old Wendell Popejoy was sentenced Monday. He was found guilty last month of first-degree murder. Sheila Bonge was slain in December 2017 outside her Crockery Township…
(AP) – The U.S. Olympic Committee is moving to revoke USA Gymnastics’ status as the governing body for the sport at the Olympic level, meting out the nuclear option to an organization that has botched its own reorganization in the wake of a sex-abuse scandal involving former team doctor Larry Nassar. In an open letter to the gymnastics community Monday,…
CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis. – Authorities say a 10-year-old girl has been detained in the death of an infant in northwestern Wisconsin. Chippewa County Sheriff Jim Kowalczyk says the girl is in juvenile custody. WQOW-TV reports that Kowalczyk said the sheriff’s department got a call on Tuesday from a caretaker at a day care in the town of Wheaton. The caller…
(Chippewa County (Wis.) Sheriff’s Office via AP)LAKE HALLIE, Wis. – Police say the 21-year-old driver accused of striking and killing three Girl Scouts and a mother and injuring a fourth girl had been inhaling chemical vapors before the crash in northwestern Wisconsin. Authorities are recommending 13 charges against Colten Treu, including four counts of homicide by intoxicated use of a…
(Richard Tsong-Taatarii/Star Tribune via AP File)BEMIDJI, Minn. – Twenty opponents of Enbridge Energy’s planned Line 3 replacement have pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct in connection with an August protest. More than two dozen people were detained and ticketed Aug. 29 after they blocked a Bemidji intersection for nearly four hours and called on Gov. Mark Dayton to stop the project….
MADISON, Wis. – Republican Gov. Scott Walker has taken the unusual step of activating the Wisconsin National Guard troops on Election Day. Walker issued an executive order Friday authorizing troops to “provide essential services to the Wisconsin Elections Commission.” The order doesn’t offer any further details on the troops’ mission. Walker’s office issued a news release saying the order allows…
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) – The Minnesota Board of Animal Health has identified another case of a mild form of bird flu in a Minnesota turkey flock. Routine testing confirmed the presence of low-pathogenic H5N2 virus in a turkey flock in Stearns County. The flock of 13-week-old hens has been quarantined. The farm will be allowed to market the turkeys…
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Five men are hospitalized after being shot in north Minneapolis. Police say an argument turned violent Thursday afternoon. Several callers reported that several people had been shot. Authorities found four men suffering from gunshot wounds at the scene and took them to North Memorial Health Hospital in Robbinsdale. One man was listed in critical condition. A police…
DULUTH, Minn. – A special winter gear pop-up shop opened yesterday at UMD. The one-day event offered students hats, gloves, scarves, jackets, and more all for free and all without judgement. Organizers say the winter gear is especially appreciated by international students who aren’t used to Minnesota’s winters. All of the gear was donated by the UMD community. Categories: News,…
ST. PAUL, Minn. – Enrollment is open for Minnesota’s health insurance marketplace. Beginning Thursday, Minnesotans can log onto the MNsure website and enroll for coverage. The enrollment deadline for coverage that begins Jan. 1 is Dec. 15. Overall open enrollment ends Jan. 13. At MNsure.org, Minnesotans can compare plans from a number of companies and estimate out-of-pocket costs. And, current…
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump says State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert is “under very serious consideration” to be the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Trump says he will “probably” make a decision on the nomination next week. Nauert was a reporter for Fox News Channel before she became State Department spokeswoman under former secretary Rex Tillerson. She would…
ST. Paul, Minn. – The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources granted permits for Poly Met Mining, Inc.’s proposed NorthMet mining project. The DNR has issued the permit to mine, six water appropriation permits, two dam safety permits, a public waters work permit, and an endangered species takings permit for the NorthMet project. But the project still requires permits from other…
ST. PAUL, Minn. – Minnesota officials are set to announce whether they are granting permits for a planned copper-nickel mine in northeastern Minnesota. The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources will announce its decision Thursday on permits sought for the planned PolyMet copper-nickel mine in northeastern Minnesota. Environmentalists have opposed the mine for fear it could pollute pristine waters. PolyMet says…
BARRON, Wis. – The Barron County Sheriff’s Department announced on their Facebook page Thursday morning that they are transitioning the Emergency Operations Center from a 24/7 reactive operation to “a more deliberate and methodical effort to progress the investigation.” The Sheriff’s Office says this transition is due to a declining number of tips. To date, authorities have received over 2,100…
PITTSBURGH (AP) — With two more funerals set for Thursday, the anti-Semitic truck driver accused of gunning down 11 people at a Pittsburgh synagogue pleaded not guilty to federal charges that could put him on death row. Robert Bowers, 46, was arraigned one day after a grand jury issued a 44-count indictment that charges him with murder, hate crimes, obstructing…
SUN PRAIRIE, Wis. – Court documents say a contractor failed to properly mark a natural gas line that was struck and caused a deadly explosion in downtown Sun Prairie last summer. A search warrant recently unsealed in Dane County Circuit Court says an employee of USIC failed to correctly mark the gas line in the street and instead targeted a…
MADISON, Wis. – President Donald Trump’s administration has rejected Gov. Scott Walker’s plan to require drug screening and testing for adults on Medicaid with no dependent children. Instead, the plan approved Wednesday calls for applicants to complete a health risk assessment and if there’s a concern about substance abuse they will be referred for treatment. They won’t be kicked off…
MADISON, Wis. (AP) – Democratic candidate for governor Tony Evers started receiving security protection from the Wisconsin State Patrol following an unspecified “issue” from the weekend. Evers’ campaign manager Maggie Gau said Wednesday that Evers started receiving protection from the patrol’s Dignitary Protection Unit this week. She referred questions about what motivated the move to the State Patrol. A spokesman…
MADISON, Wis. – Early voting totals for Tuesday’s election have topped 2014 levels, as hotly contested races for governor, U.S. Senate and a host of other offices are motivating people to cast ballots. The Wisconsin Elections Commission reported Wednesday that nearly 378,000 absentee ballots have been cast to date. That exceeds the 2014 total when just over 374,000 absentee ballots…
WINONA, Minn. – Police in Winona have arrested a teenager who they say threatened to shoot up his school. Officers responded to Winona Senior High School Wednesday morning after a student showed a Snapchat video to a school official of a 15-year-old boy making the threat. KTTC-TV says the boy was also a student at the school. He was arrested…
ST. PAUL, Minn. – Anglers on Mille Lacs Lake will be allowed to keep one walleye a day in the upcoming ice fishing season. The Department of Natural Resources on Tuesday said the popular destination lake’s walleye population has increased enough to sustain a one-walleye harvest for a third straight winter. Anglers may keep one walleye between 21 and 23…
MADISON, Wis. – Vice President Mike Pence is planning to visit Wisconsin this weekend to attend a campaign rally with Gov. Scott Walker. Walker’s campaign says Pence will join the governor for a late-morning rally Saturday at Valley Cartage, a trucking company in Hudson. Pence’s visit comes three days before Election Day, when Walker will face Democratic challenger Tony Evers….
