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Cloquet Family Sticking Together Through Two House Fires

Summit School Honors Duluth Murder Victim With Memorial Tree

Convicted sex offender sentenced to 22-years in prison after being given a stay in previous conviction

Wanted man likely in greater Superior-area

Boil water notice for parts of Duluth's upper Lakeside neighborhood

Wisconsin News

'Library Passport Program' Returns to Northern Wisconsin

Students Learn Life Saving Skills at Red Cross Day

Knowing Your Neighbor: 'Kindred Heart' Introduces Unique Community Outlet

Superior Public Library Recognizes 'National Library Week'

"Hands Off" Protests Take Place Across Northland

Yellen Tells Congress US Expected To Hit Debt Limit Thursday

WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen notified Congress on Friday that the U.S. is projected to reach its debt limit on Thursday and will then resort to “extraordinary measures” to avoid default. In a letter to House and Senate leaders, Yellen…

Garland Appoints Special Counsel To Investigate Biden Docs

WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday appointed a special counsel to investigate the presence of documents with classified markings found at President Joe Biden’s home in Wilmington, Delaware, and at an office in Washington. The announcement followed Biden’s acknowledgement…

Biden Says Classified Document Found In ‘Personal Library’

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden acknowledged on Thursday that a document with classified markings from his time as vice president was found in his “personal library” at his home in Wilmington, Delaware, along with other documents found in his…

Bills Safety Damar Hamlin Released From Buffalo Hospital

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Bills safety Damar Hamlin was released from a Buffalo hospital on Wednesday, more than a week after he went into cardiac arrest and had to be resuscitated during a game at Cincinnati, after his doctors said they…

Air Travel Across US Thrown Into Chaos After Computer Outage

NEW YORK (AP) — The world’s largest aircraft fleet was grounded for hours by a cascading outage in a government system that delayed or cancelled thousands of flights across the U.S. on Wednesday. The White House initially said that there…

Gas Stove Ban 'On The Table' For Federal Agency: Reports

(Fox 9) -- The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is considering a ban on gas stoves as concerns surrounding indoor air pollutants from the appliances continue to rise, according to reports. Bloomberg reported that the agency plans to act on the…

Mega Millions: Drawing Nears For $1.1 Billion Jackpot, 3rd Largest In Game History

(Fox 9) -- The Mega Millions jackpot has soared to an estimated $1.1 billion — now the third-largest jackpot in the game’s history — ahead of Tuesday night’s drawing. The grand prize also comes with a $568.7 million cash option after no…

Feds Propose ‘Student Loan Safety Net’ Alongside Forgiveness

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is moving forward with a proposal that would lower student debt payments for millions of Americans now and in the future, offering a new route to repay federal loans under far more generous terms.…

Chief: 6-Year-Old Boy Shot Virginia Teacher During Class

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — A Virginia police chief says a 6-year-old student fired the handgun that wounded a first-grade teacher while she was teaching class. Newport News Police Chief Steve Drew on Monday offered the first description of how…

Bills Safety Hamlin Back In Buffalo To Resume Recovery

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Doctors who treated Damar Hamlin said the Bills safety was back in Buffalo on Monday, an uplifting sign of the remarkable progress he has made a week after going into cardiac arrest and having to be…

McCarthy’s Next Big Task: Win GOP Support For House Rules

WASHINGTON (AP) — After an epic 15-ballot election to become House speaker, Republican Kevin McCarthy faces his next big test in governing a fractious, slim majority: passing a rules package to govern the House. The drafting and approval of a set of rules is…

Bills’ Hamlin Breathing On His Own, Joins Team Via Video

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — It was uplifting enough for the Buffalo Bills staff and players to see Damar Hamlin appear on the video screen in the team’s meeting room Friday — “larger than life,” as coach Sean McDermott put…

US Approves Alzheimer’s Drug That Modestly Slows Disease

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health officials on Friday approved a closely watched Alzheimer’s drug that modestly slows the brain-robbing disease, albeit with potential safety risks that patients and their doctors will have to carefully weigh. The drug, Leqembi, is the…

2 Years After Jan. 6, Speaker Scrap Paralyzes Congress Again

WASHINGTON (AP) — Such are the fractures in the country, between the political parties and inside the Republican Party itself, that one time-honored specialty of Washington — memorializing and coming together over national trauma — isn’t what it used to be. Friday’s…

McCarthy Fails For 3rd Long Day In GOP House Speaker Fight

WASHINGTON (AP) — For a long and frustrating third day, divided Republicans left the speaker’s chair of the U.S. House sitting empty Thursday, as party leader Kevin McCarthy failed and failed again in an excruciating string of ballots to win enough GOP…