(AP Photo/Guillermo Arias, File) NEW YORK (AP) – Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison has died. Publisher Alfred A. Knopf says Morrison died Monday night at Montefiore Medical Center in New York. She was 88. She was the first black woman to receive the Nobel literature prize, awarded in 1993. The Swedish academy hailed her use of language and her “visionary…
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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) – Gov. Tim Walz says he’ll seek hearings on gun measures this fall after the latest mass shootings in Ohio and Texas. Democratic leaders and gun safety advocates in Minnesota have for years pursued universal background checks and “red flag” laws, which let police take guns from people thought to be a threat to themselves and…
DULUTH, Minn. – Prowling can happen anywhere and anytime. Leaving your any type of valuables in your car can seriously put it at risk. Your car can sometimes feel like your home away from home. It is often very easy to keep items in your vehicle assuming everything will be there when you return. Keeping items like a purse or…
DULUTH, Minn. – A little girl from Saint Cloud is getting her wish granted while on a special trip to Duluth, which was made possible by the Minnesota-based organization wishes and more. Six year-old Lillian Johannes was diagnosed with acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. But Lillian has focused on the future like her dream to become a veterinarian. Today that wish came…
DULUTH, Minn. – Who doesn’t love rainbows and unicorns. Well a few campers sewed some magical treasures at a four day camp hosted by Sew Duluth. Young, beginner to advanced sewers used their creative minds to stitch away on the sewing machine They made tote bags and pillows covered in rainbow and unicorns. Over the years hand arts have been…
SUPERIOR, Wis.- It’s a situation officers never hope happens, but one that is important for them to be prepared for. Superior Police Officers go through several active training sessions a year, which seem especially relevant now following the El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio shootings. Superior PD trains both their officers and civilians from businesses and organizations for active shooter…
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) – A state appeals court has dealt a setback to environmentalists who challenged Minnesota’s rules on hard-rock mining. In a unanimous opinion, the court said on Monday the rules developed by the Department of Natural Resources are valid. Environmentalists argued the rules are too vague to protect Minnesota’s natural resources. Two companies are preparing to build…
CARLTON COUNTY, Minn. – A Carlton County ATV accident has left one male dead according to the Carlton County Sheriff’s Office. The accident happened around 12:06 p.m. Sunday on South Finn Road in Lakeview Township. Authorities say the 36-year-old male driver was riding his ATV up and down the driveway of the family cabin when he lost control and hit…
CARP LAKE TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) – Authorities have identified a pilot who died after a small plane crashed in a remote area of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. WLUC-TV reports Ontonagon County officials have identified the pilot as 36-year-old Jack Maccani of Ironwood. He was pronounced dead at the crash scene. Cellphone location data helped locate the plane in a remote area…
DULUTH, Minn. – According to the City of Duluth a portion of Superior Street will close for repairs on Wednesday. The city says Superior Street between Mesaba and 6th Avenue West will close to replace some cracked concrete panels. The road will close after 9:00 a.m. on Wednesday and will remain closed for approximately one week. Sixth Avenue West will…
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota authorities are charging singer R. Kelly with two counts of prostitution and solicitation involving a girl under 18 for an alleged incident in 2001. Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman says Robert Kelly is charged in an incident involving a girl he met at a concert. Freeman says the girl was trying to get an autograph from…
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) – Data shows opioid manufacturers distributed about 842 million pills to Minnesota pharmacies from 2006 to 2012, amounting to 156 pills for each resident. Minnesota Public Radio News, analyzing data obtained by the Washington Post after a legal battle, reports that most of the pills were circulated in urban Hennepin and Ramsey counties, but that rural…
EL PASO, Texas (AP) -A hospital official says another victim of the weekend mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, has died. Dr. Stephen Flaherty, of the Del Sol Medical Center, says the patient was one of two victims of Saturday’s attack to die at the hospital on Monday. Police earlier announced the death of one of the patients. The new…
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DULUTH, Minn. – Strong morning storms have led to power outages for many Northlanders. According to the MN Power electric outage map roughly 948 customers are without power as of 11:29 a.m. throughout the area. Lake Country Power’s outage viewer shows about 1,226 members affected by current power outages. East Central Energy is reporting roughly 16 current power outages on…
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WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump is calling the recent mass shootings “evil attacks” that are crimes “against all humanity” and says unity must replace hatred in society. Trump gave a speech from the White House on Monday following weekend shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, that left 29 people dead and dozens wounded. He called the shootings…
(AP) WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump says Washington “must come together” in the wake of two mass shootings this weekend to “get strong background checks” for gun users. But he is providing no details on what sort of legislation he would support. Trump, who will make remarks later Monday, tweeted about the weekend shootings in Texas and Ohio that…
GRAND RAPIDS, Minn.- The smell of sawdust is in the air and the hot summer weather isn’t keeping the crowds from downtown Grand Rapids for the 39th annual Tall Timber Days. “Been good attendance, very good attendance,” said festival Founder, Dr. Lee Jess. “Again like I said temperature has a little bearing on attendance but it has been good.” “And…
DULUTH, Minn.- Sunday was the final day of Thomas the Tank Engine and his friend Percy’s visit to Duluth. Organizers say around 18,000 people visited Thomas and Percy over the past two weekends, making an estimated economic impact of $8.5 million in the Northland. The two trains also bring out about 200 volunteers from different community organizations, who also receive…
GNESEN, Minn. – Triathletes swam their way into the 33rd Annual Brewhouse Triathlon sponsored by Fitger’s Brewhouse at Island Lake on Sunday. Adults and children alike participated in the race on Sunday. According to one of the race directors, who has raced in all 33 years of the event, it is about so much more than winning. “We have over…
(AP Photo/John Minchillo) DAYTON, Ohio (AP) – The Latest on a deadly mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio (all times local): 5:05 p.m. The popular nightlife area where a gunman killed nine people and injured dozens of others has reopened to the public. The Oregon District was reopened Sunday afternoon, hours after the second mass shooting in the U.S. within 24…
DULUTH, Minn.- The Lake Superior and Mississippi Railroad took its first trip of the year out of West Duluth Saturday. The train normally starts in June but due to some mechanical issues and rideaway issues with high water on the St. Louis River, the first departure was pushed back. The Railroad runs along the river to the St. Louis River…
PROCTOR, Minn.- The roars of engines is a normal sound at Proctor Speedway. But these engines are newcomers- school buses. The Speedway’s Midsummer Night of Mayhem kicked off with the fan favorite Celebrity Bus Races. Business owners, city officials, and more community members got behind the wheel of a bus drifting around the track to win the coveted trophy. “Just…
DULUTH, Minn.- Everywhere you looked were helmets and handlebars as the Bike Duluth Festival celebrated its 6th anniversary. The festival raised money for Cyclists of the Gitchee Gumee Shore (COGGS) and Gary New Duluth Development Alliance. Last year $25,000 was raised for each beneficiary, and this year they hope to clear $50,000. “Duluth has become a world class mountain biking…
CHISOLM, Minn. – The St. Louis County Fair is often thought of as a staple of summer in Northern Minnesota. Horses, cows, pigs and other animals gathered with their owners at the 135th St. Louis County Fair. For the farmers and 4-H kids it is about so much more than just showing off their animals. “Every year families gather they…
DULUTH, Minn. – The new WWI monument is two Mesabi black granite slabs etched with the names of the 22 West Duluth soldiesr who served in WWI and the names of Duluth’s 167 Gold Star men and woman. The slabs take the place of small brass markers that had fallen in disrepair. At Saturday’s ceremony, representative Pete Stauber gave a…
EL PASO, Texas (AP) — Twenty people were killed and more than two dozen injured in a shooting Saturday in a busy shopping area in the Texas border town of El Paso, the state’s governor said. Among the possibilities being investigated is whether it was a hate crime, the police chief said. Two law enforcement officials who spoke to The…
ITASCA COUNTY, Minn. – Jake Michael Place, the 38-year-old Nashwauk man facing charges for a fatal hit-and-run, has been released on bail. Place was being held in Itasca County Jail on a $400,000 bail without conditions and a $200,000 bail with conditions. According to the Itasca County Jail, he posted at least $20,000 on Friday and was released on bail…
NASHWAUK, Minn. – Stuffed bears and flowers are what’s left at the scene of a fatal hit-and-run accident that killed a young boy. 16-year-old girl Lexi Carroll was pushing two-year-old Logan Dean Klennert on Thursday at about 1 p.m. on the shoulder of Highway 65 at milepost 188 when a pickup truck swerved and hit them from behind. 38-year-old Jake…
DULUTH, Minn. – Residents celebrated the grand opening of Quarry Park in West Duluth. The new park features new multi-use trails that lead through Skyline Parkway. A nine hole disc golf course is open for the community to play. And it is also the newest playground for avid rock climbers. Organizers say the project was a long time coming since…
DULUTH, Minn. – Concert goers packed Bayfront Festival Park to celebrate the city on the hill music festival. The two day christian music concert features a lineup of headline acts like Skillet and Bethel Music. This is the fifth year for the annual festival. It draws nearly five thousand visitors from across the United States to the Northland over the…
DULUTH, Minn. – Friday marked the 29th anniversary since the American Disabilities Act was implemented in the United States. The organization Access North Independent Living hosted a concert in the park celebration to commemorate the day. The ADA was enacted in 1990 to better improve accessibility for people with disabilities. The anniversary celebration is another way for the ADA community…
HAYWARD, Wis.-The smell of fresh cut lumber is taking over in Hayward at the second day of the 60th Annual Lumberjack World Championships. Lumberjacks and Lumberjills are swinging, axing, chopping, sawing, log rolling, climbing and boom running into 24 different events in Hayward, Wisconsin this weekend. Today was the semifinals, marking who will be competing in tomorrow’s World Championship rounds….
SUPERIOR, Wis.-The fifth annual Billing Park Day’s celebration began today with a fleet of fun activities for the whole family. Activities included a bean bag tournament and a rummage sale and one vendor literally brought the sale and the customers to her front door with her handmade items. Stone Sostre owner Ellen Kreidler says, “Other years I have done a…
DULUTH, Minn.-Out of planes from all over the country, a Northlander won a prestigious award for his homemade aircraft in Oshkosh, Wisc. Michael Shannon of Duluth entered his homemade seaplane into the Air Venture Aircraft Award Show to be scored and judged having little idea he’d end up receiving the gold Lindy Award named after Charles Lindbergh, one of the…
HAYWARD, Wisc. — In this weeks Active Adventures, Fox 21’s Brittney Merlot is boom running at the Lumberjack World Championships semifinals. She’s never done it before and will make her first attempt this morning on LIVE TV! Ellie Davenport, offers her words of wisdom as she has been a pro log roller and boom runner since she was 15 years…
MILWAUKEE (AP) – Wisconsin health officials say they’ve linked vaping to 11 recent cases where teenagers and young adults developed “severe lung disease” that required hospitalizations. Officials said Friday they’re investigating another seven cases that may also be linked to vaping. The health department says all the patients they interviewed reported vaping in the weeks and months prior to being…
MOORHEAD, Minn. (AP) – A county in northwest Minnesota is about to become the first in the state to let cellphone callers stream live video and audio to dispatchers when they call 911 for help. Pennington County Sheriff Ray Kuznia tells the Minnesota Public Radio News that the technology will be implemented later in August. Kuznia added it should help…
Jake Place ITASCA COUNTY, Minn. – A fatal hit and run killed a two-year-old boy Thursday afternoon in Northeast Itasca Township, about fifteen miles north of Nashwauk. According to the Minnesota State Patrol, officers learned a 16-year-old pedestrian, identified as Alexia Carroll, was struck while pushing a 2-year-old, identified as Logan Klennert, in a stroller. The 2-year-old died at the…
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(courtesy: Fox 9) MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – The family of a 5-year-old boy who survived being thrown from a third-floor balcony at the Mall of America in April says he finally has been moved out of intensive care and into a rehabilitation program. The boy, identified only as Landen, has been at Children’s Hospital in Minneapolis since he was thrown nearly…
DULUTH, Minn. – Two individuals were arrested Wednesday night for firing shots in the Cascade Park area in Duluth. According to reports, officers responded to the scene and were provided “excellent descriptions of three individuals” by witnesses in the park at the time of the incident. Officers located the three suspects at 5th Avenue East and 4th Street where two…
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GRAND RAPIDS, Minn. – This year marks the 7th birthday of Smokey Bear and his fire prevention campaign. Celebrations are happening throughout Minnesota, including a celebration at Tall Timber Days in Grand Rapids on Saturday, August 3rd. Smokey will make appearances at the Tall Timber education booth, located in the northwest corner of the Old Central School in downtown Grand…
DULUTH, Minn. – Authorities say a St. Scholastica football player has sustained significant injuries after being hit by a car early Wednesday morning. Duluth Police report the accident happened at approximately 12:00 a.m. in the area of 19th Avenue East and London Road. Officers responded to a call of a male lying in the road after being hit by a…
EYOTA, Minn. – According to the Minnesota State Patrol, six people were killed in an early Friday morning crash. The crash happened on I-90 near Eyota. Minnesota State Patrol reports that a vehicle was travelling the wrong way, heading eastbound, when it struck another vehicle heading westbound on I-90. Three occupants were killed in each vehicle. I-90 is now back…
DULUTH, Minn. – In between responding to calls Duluth police set up shop looking for drivers on their phones. Authorities scouted throughout the city and put most of their focus on finding hands free violators at major intersections. At last report, Duluth Police stopped more than five vehicles for texting and driving. Lucky for those motorists, they got away with…
DULUTH, Minn. – Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore has opened a new research facility, geared towards American Indian health, right here in Duluth This comes after a prominent UMD researcher left the medical school to start a new partnership with Johns Hopkins University. The Center for American Indian health for the university has multiple hubs across the united states, primarily…
