ASHLAND, Wis. (AP) – Authorities have attributed another death in Wisconsin to the storms that caused widespread flooding in the Upper Midwest. The Sawyer County Sheriff’s Office says severe thunderstorms toppled a large oak tree onto a camper on Lake Chetac, killing a man inside and injuring a woman and two young children Sunday. The man is identified as 55-year-old…
ST. JAMES, Minn. (AP) – A southern Minnesota man has been charged in the fatal shootings of his wife and her adult daughter from a previous marriage. The Star Tribune reports that 59-year-old Scott Engelbrecht was charged with two counts of murder and one count of assault with a dangerous weapon Monday in Watonwan County. A criminal complaint says Engelbrecht…
(AP) MOUNT PLEASANT, Wis. (AP) – American Transmission Co. has purchased land to build a proposed electrical substation for the massive Foxconn Technology Group complex in southeast Wisconsin. The Kenosha News reports that ATC confirmed Monday that it purchased 33 acres of land in Mount Pleasant for $2.4 million. The utility plans to add lines between Kenosha County and Racine…
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – A bill containing a provision from Sen. Tina Smith to complete a land exchange between PolyMet Mining Corp. and the federal government has cleared the Senate. The Minnesota Democrat’s amendment is part of a big defense bill that passed 85-10 Monday. PolyMet needs the land for its planned copper-nickel mine in northeastern Minnesota. The company would get…
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – Federal officials say a pathologist fired from an Arkansas veterans hospital for being “impaired on duty” misdiagnosed seven cases and that around 33,000 additional cases are being reviewed. The Veterans Health Care System of the Ozarks said Monday one error may have led to a death. Spokeswoman Wanda Shull says seven errors were found among…
(AP Photo/Alan Diaz, File)UNITED NATIONS (AP) — There are over 1 billion firearms in the world today, including 857 million in civilian hands — with American men and women the dominant owners, according to a study released Monday. The Small Arms Survey says 393 million of the civilian-held firearms, 46 percent, are in the United States, which is “more than…
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) – Public safety officials are raising concerns following a deadly weekend on Minnesota roads that saw nearly a dozen fatal crashes, with nearly half involving motorcyclists. The Minnesota State Patrol says the Friday through Sunday stretch is the deadliest on Minnesota roads since 2016, killing 11 people. Five deaths came from motorcycle crashes and one involved…
(AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File) WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is resolving partisan redistricting cases from Wisconsin and Maryland without ruling on the broader issue of whether electoral maps can give an unfair advantage to a political party. The justices unanimously ruled against Wisconsin Democrats who challenged legislative districts that gave Republicans a huge edge in the state legislature….
(Richard Tsong-Taatarii/Star Tribune via AP File)MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Minnesota regulators open two days of final arguments Monday on whether they should approve Enbridge Energy’s proposal for replacing its deteriorating Line 3 crude oil pipeline from Canada across Minnesota. The plan has aroused intense opposition from tribal and climate-change activists who are encouraging supporters to pack the hearing room. Some opponents…
ALEXANDRIA, Minn. (AP) – A deputy went into a central Minnesota lake to rescue a woman from her sinking car. The Douglas County sheriff’s office says it happened Saturday night in a construction zone on Interstate 94 near Lake Latoka, southwest of Alexandria. The sheriff’s office says 76-year-old Beverly Toso, of Hoffman, couldn’t stop in time before she drove off…
(AP Photo/David Zalubowski) DENVER (AP) — A 12-year-old boy told police he saw a driver open fire on his family during a road rage confrontation in Colorado, killing his older brother and critically wounding his mother and younger brother, authorities said Friday. Police arrested Jeremy Webster, 23, hours after the shooting that killed a 13-year-old boy and also wounded a…
photo courtesy: CNNBATTLE CREEK, Mich. (AP) – The Kellogg Company is voluntarily recalling some of its Honey Smacks cereal after salmonella infected 73 people in 31 states. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says most of the outbreaks were in California, Massachusetts, New York and Pennsylvania. The recall affects 15.3-ounce packages with the UPS Code 3800039103 and 23-ounce packages…
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Minnesota and Wisconsin health officials say a growing number of people are falling ill to infections linked to fresh produce. Both states are investigating an outbreak in infections caused by Cyclospora, a parasite commonly found in developing countries. Officials have confirmed 30 Wisconsin and 20 Minnesota cases linked to Del Monte brand vegetable trays. The Minnesota Department…
(AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman is going to jail. Paul Manafort was ordered into custody Friday after a federal judge revoked his house arrest, citing newly filed obstruction of justice charges. The move by U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson came after prosecutors accused Manafort and a longtime associate of witnesses tampering. Prosecutors say…
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) – Authorities say two riders fell 34 feet to the ground when a roller coaster derailed and eight others had to be pulled to safety high above the Daytona Beach Boardwalk. Daytona Beach Fire spokeswoman Sasha Staton says the front car came off the tracks Thursday night, and two of its four passengers suffered traumatic injuries…
(AP Photo/Andy Wong)BEIJING (AP) — China’s government responded quickly to U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff hike on Chinese goods by announcing Friday it will immediately impose penalties of “equal strength” on U.S. products. The Commerce Ministry said it also was scrapping deals to buy more American farm goods and other exports as part of efforts to defuse a sprawling dispute…
DULUTH, Minn. – The St. Louis County Veterans Service Office in Duluth is moving on June 25. The office is currently located at 405 E Superior St and will be moving to a new spot at the Village Mall Office Building on Burning Tree Road. Due to the move the service center will be closed June 21 and June 22….
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) – A federal audit says the Minnesota agency responsible for protecting vulnerable adults in the state has failed to provide adequate oversight for 20 adult day care centers. The Star Tribune reports that the Office of Inspector General for the federal Department of Health and Human Services released the report last week. The agency found 200…
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Justice Department has issued a stinging rebuke to the FBI for its handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation. The report released Thursday calls former FBI Director James Comey “insubordinate” and says his actions were “extraordinary.” But the report, by the department’s watchdog, does not find evidence that Comey was motivated by political bias or preference…
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Supreme Court has struck down a Minnesota law that restricted what voters can wear to polls. The justices ruled Thursday that the law violates the First Amendment. Still, the justices’ 7-2 ruling suggested that some restrictions on what people can wear to vote are permissible. Most states have laws restricting what voters can wear to cast…
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – A western Minnesota man faces federal charges that he illegally possessed 10 machine guns as well as unregistered pipe bombs and silencers. A federal grand jury indicted 46-year-old Chad Lee Monson of Willmar on numerous firearms violations last week. Monson returns to U.S. District Court for a detention hearing and arraignment Friday. The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports…
AP Photo/Evan Vucci/newsfileNEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump’s foundation served as a personal piggy bank for his businesses, legal bills and presidential campaign, New York’s attorney general said Wednesday as she sued the charity, Trump and three of his children. The Donald J. Trump Foundation “was little more than a checkbook for payments from Mr. Trump or his businesses…
WALKER, Minn. (AP) – The body of a missing boater has been recovered from a Cass County lake. Sheriff’s officials say he was thrown from a boat along with another man on Hay Lake near Backus Tuesday afternoon. The other man was rescued and was treated for minor injuries. The other man’s body was recovered late Wednesday afternoon. The Minnesota…
WALKER, Minn. (AP) – Searchers on a Cass County lake are looking for a man who was thrown from a boat and remains missing. Two men were in the boat that overturned Tuesday afternoon on Hay Lake near Backus. Cass County sheriff’s officials say one man was rescued and treated at the scene for minor injuries. The sheriff’s office says…
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) – A raccoon stranded on the ledge of a building in St. Paul, Minnesota, captivated onlookers and generated interest on social media after it started scaling an office building. Onlookers and reporters tracked the critter’s progress at it climbed the UBS Plaza on Tuesday, interrupting work and causing anxiety for some. By Wednesday morning it had…
(AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File) LAS VEGAS (AP) — Pimp Dennis Hof, the owner of half a dozen legal brothels in Nevada and star of the HBO adult reality series “Cathouse,” won a Republican primary for the state Legislature on Tuesday, ousting a three-term lawmaker. Hof defeated hospital executive James Oscarson. He’ll face Democrat Lesia Romanov in November, and will be…
DULUTH, Minn. (AP) – The Duluth firefighters union has drafted a resolution to censure the department’s chief and deputy chief. The local chapter of the International Association of Fire Fighters recently approved the draft which needs to be reviewed by larger union and voted on at the August convention. WDIO-TV reports a statement from Local 101 says the union believes…
(AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)WASHINGTON (AP) – U.S. District Judge Richard Leon said the government failed to meet its burden of proof in its antitrust suit against the AT&T-Time Warner merger. Leon said the government had “taken its best shot” to oppose the merger. But, he added, “the government’s evidence is too thin a reed for this court to rely on.”…
(courtesy: Fox 9)ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) – Two state agencies say they may soon run out of money to fix Minnesota’s beleaguered new driver registration platform. Minnesota’s Information Technology Services agency and the Department of Public Safety are tasked with fixing MNLARS. That’s the new computer system that has struggled with bugs and errors since its launch last summer. Minnesota…
ST/ PAUL, Minn. (AP) – A registered sex offender who sued an eastern Minnesota city over its restrictions on where he could live will receive $84,000 as part of a settlement agreement. The Pioneer Press reports that a federal judge’s order dismissed Thomas Wayne Evenstad’s lawsuit against West St. Paul on Monday. Evenstad filed the lawsuit in August after authorities…
NAPERVILLE, Ill. (AP) — A police sergeant is being honored for his quick actions in rescuing a young child from a busy roadway in suburban Chicago. The Naperville Police Department posted dashcam video of last month’s rescue by Sgt. Anthony Mannino on its Facebook page Monday. The department’s post says the child “escaped his mother’s watchful eye” and wandered along…
WASHINGTON (AP) – A new report is urging a culture change in U.S. colleges and universities that train scientists so women won’t be bullied out of the field. The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine says science should treat sexual harassment as seriously as research misconduct. Tuesday’s report cites one university system survey that found 20 percent of female…
MONROE, Wis. (AP) – Authorities have released the names of four family members killed in a small plane crash in southern Wisconsin. Green County Coroner Jody Makos on Monday identified the victims as the pilot, 81-year-old Colleen Deininger; her daughter, 53-year-old Melissa Deininger-Dickman; and two grandchildren, 17-year-old Emmarose Dickman and 13-year-old Alex Dickman, all of Kenosha. Authorities say the single-engine…
(AP Photo/Evan Vucci) SINGAPORE (AP) — President Donald Trump rocked the region with the stunning announcement Tuesday that he was halting annual U.S.-South Korean military drills — and wants to remove the 28,500 U.S. troops stationed in the South as a deterrent against North Korea. Trump’s surprise, almost offhand comments, made during a news conference after his summit with North…
(U.S. Geological Survey via AP)HONOLULU (AP) – Small explosions at the summit of an erupting Hawaii volcano could send ash into communities. Scientists say the blasts happened Monday, including one after a magnitude-5.4 earthquake. Ash expelled from the Kilauea volcano may cause poor visibility and slippery conditions for drivers. The Big Island volcano has been erupting for more than a…
CASS LAKE, Minn. (AP) – Authorities say a 25-year-old man has died after he was assaulted in northern Minnesota. Cass County Sheriff Tom Burch says his office was notified late Thursday that a “serious assault” victim had been brought to the Cass Lake Indian Health Services hospital. Burch says the man, from Cass Lake, was pronounced dead shortly afterward. Police…
NEW YORK (AP) — Your ability to watch and use your favorite apps and services could start to change — though not right away — following the official demise Monday of Obama-era internet protections. Any changes are likely to happen slowly, as companies assess how much consumers will tolerate. The repeal of “net neutrality” took effect six months after the…
SINGAPORE (AP) – In the latest twist in the drama-filled nuclear talks with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, President Donald Trump announced on the eve of their historic meeting that he will be leaving Singapore early because the nuclear negotiations have moved “more quickly than expected.” That was before the two had even met, and it was not clear whether…
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Authorities say a motorist being pursued by the State Patrol veered into a park and struck two children in Minneapolis. KARE-TV reports an SUV driver left the interstate and drove onto a playground near Jenny Kind Elementary School. The SUV traveled through the basketball and tennis courts and struck the children on or near the playground before…
DULUTH, Minn. (AP) – A northeastern Minnesota county has launched a new three-pronged approach to combating the opioid epidemic. St. Louis County is partnering with clinics and health care providers to bring opioid prescribers in line with best practices recommended by the state. The Public Health and Human Services Department, with support from the Minnesota Department of Health, is working…
ST. CROIX FALLS, Wis. (AP) – Authorities have recovered the body of a 20-year-old man from the St. Croix River. A citizen reported hearing calls for help coming from the river at Lions Park in St. Croix Falls Saturday. Emergency responders found the man’s body several hours later about 20 to 30 feet from shore. Police say the death is…
NEW YORK (AP) – That Starbucks habit just got a little more expensive. Starbucks says it’s raising the price of a regular drip coffee by 10 cents to 20 cents this week in most U.S. stores. It says a small brewed coffee is now $1.95 to $2.15 in a majority of locations. The company said Thursday prices remain unchanged on…
(AP Photo/Evan Vucci)MILWAUKEE (AP) – President Donald Trump plans to attend the Foxconn Technology Group groundbreaking ceremony later this month and attend a luncheon fundraiser. The Milwaukee Business Journal reports that prominent Milwaukee business executive Ted Kellner is hosting the June 29 fundraiser. It comes before Trump is to attend the Foxconn event in Mount Pleasant with Gov. Scott Walker…
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Nine former and current University of Minnesota football players who say their rights were violated in a sexual misconduct investigation are suing the school, alleging they’re victims of racial and gender discrimination. The federal lawsuit was filed Friday. It stems from the university’s investigation into an alleged gang rape of a female student in 2016. The lawsuit…
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) – A University of Minnesota report shows pregnancies and birth rates dipped to historic lows among Minnesota teens while sexually-transmitted diseases continue climbing. Minnesota Public Radio reports that the 2018 Minnesota Adolescent Sexual Health Report found a more than 70 percent decrease in the pregnancy rate of 15- to 19-year-olds and a 65 percent drop in…
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – A Minnesota man has taken a lawsuit against his father all the way to the Minnesota Supreme Court. And, dad is just fine with that. The Supreme Court this week clarified a state law on public access for hunting, clearing the way for Corey Ouradnik to sue his father, Robert Ouradnik, over a deer hunting accident. Corey…
(Photo by Brent N. Clarke/Invision/AP, File)PARIS (AP) — American TV celebrity and food writer Anthony Bourdain was found dead in his hotel room Friday in France while working on his CNN series on culinary traditions around the world. He was 61. CNN confirmed the death, saying that Bourdain was found unresponsive Friday morning by friend and chef Eric Ripert in…
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – The Minneapolis Police Department says it will stop arresting people on low-level marijuana charges in the wake of sting operations that resulted in the disproportionate arrests of black people. Police Chief Medaria Arradondo announced the new policy Thursday at the direction of Major Jacob Frey. The Star Tribune reports it follows a report by the Hennepin County…
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) – A bison has gored a woman for the third animal attack in Yellowstone National Park this week. Yellowstone officials say a crowd got too close to the bison Wednesday in the Lower Geyser Basin. The bison charged the crowd, goring 59-year-old Kim Hancock of Santa Rosa, California. Hancock was taken to a hospital with…
(AP photo/Markus Schreiber, archive)BERLIN (AP) – German pharmaceutical company Bayer AG says it has completed its purchase of U.S. seed and weed-killer maker Monsanto Co. Bayer said Thursday that it is now the sole owner of the company and Monsanto shares will no longer trade on the New York Stock Exchange. Bayer has put the cost of the deal at…
