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Video: All-female honor guard salutes WWII WAAC veteran from New London

Master Sgt. Stephanie Rose, from the Grand Forks Air Force Base Honor Guard, kneels beside Billie Nadeau, who served in the Air Force in London during World War II. Tribune photo by Carolyn Lange

ALC graduates celebrate overcoming obstacles

Jovanie Aquirre receives a congratulatory hug from Kim Ness Friday following the 25th annual Willmar Area Learning Center graduation ceremony at the Willmar Education and Arts Center Auditorium. Tribune photo by Ron Adams

Prep softball: Just another family outing

Tribune photo by Tom Larson Erin Haglund, left, and Kalli Forsell watch the final innings of Lac qui Parle Valley's game against Wheaton/Herman-Norcross on Thursday in Murdock. WHN defeated LQPV, but Haglund struck out 13 Warriors and KMS improved to 19-0 with a 15-1 win in the Section 3A-West playoffs.

Prep baseball roundup: Koll, Kinny lead Litch past Annandale

Tribune photo by Tom Larson Litchfield righthander Zach Kinny delivers a pitch to catcher Eddie Estrada in the Dragons’ Section 5AA-West game against Annandale on Friday at Litchfield’s Optimist Field.
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Zoning amendment would increase garage door height for RV storage
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This is the records summary for May 25. Thefts WILLMAR — A CD player console was stolen from a 2001 Mitsubishi parked on the 300 block of Lakeland Drive in Willmar on Wednesday night, its owner reported Thursday morning. WILLMAR — A pink, leopard print wallet containing personal...
news / local11 hours 13 min ago
Area cities hopeful for flood mitigation funds
MAYNARD -- Three area communities are named as recipients of state funds for flood mitigation projects as part of an overall, $20 million appropriation signed into law. Maynard, Montevideo and Granite Falls are among the communities listed as those in the state to be appropriated...
news / region11 hours 18 min ago
Zoning amendment would increase garage door height for RV storage
WILLMAR -- The Willmar City Council will hold a public hearing June 3 on an ordinance amendment that would allow higher garage doors to accommodate tall recreational vehicles in residential areas. The city Planning Commission is initiating the amendment to increase the height of...
news / local11 hours 19 min ago
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School officials like state education bill
WILLMAR -- For area school officials, there's a lot to like in the E-12 education bill signed by Gov. Mark Dayton earlier this week. The bill includes a number of changes for the state's public schools -- increases in general education aid, funding for all-day kindergarten, changes...
news / local11 hours 20 min ago
Prep track roundup: Cards’ Jackson 2nd in 200
Alexandria freshman sprinter and long jumper Wensia Johnson set three conference standards at Sauk Rapids Thursday, including what is apparently an all-time state record in the long jump of 19-5¼. That would improve on what is listed as the all-time state best and state meet best,...
sports / prep11 hours 54 min ago
Judge: Ariz. sheriff's office profiles Latinos, victimizes citizens
PHOENIX (AP) -- A federal judge has ruled that the office of America's self-proclaimed toughest sheriff systematically singled out Latinos in...
news / nation3 hours 25 min ago
Prep baseball: Chanhassen ousts Willmar
EDEN PRAIRIE — Willmar was taken out of the Section 2AAA playoffs Friday when No. 7-seeded Chanhassen upended the No. 10 Cardinals 6-4. No information on the game was provided to the Tribune at press time Friday night. Willmar, which might still try to play New London-Spicer...
sports / Cardinals11 hours 57 min ago
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Twins get 1-hit, lose 10th straight
DETROIT — Anibal Sanchez took a no-hitter into the ninth inning before Minnesota’s Joe Mauer broke it up with a one-out single, and that...
sports / pro12 hours 3 min ago
Washington I-5 bridge collapse caused by oversize load
MOUNT VERNON, Wash. (AP) — A truck carrying an oversize load struck a bridge on the major thoroughfare between Seattle and Canada, sending...
newsMay 24, 2013 - 9:06am
Paddle Theatre takes audience on newly-chartered waters in Granite Falls, Minn.
GRANITE FALLS -- It was difficult beforehand to tell people what a Paddling Theatre experience would be, since nothing of the sort had ever...
entertainment / showcaseMay 23, 2013 - 12:52pm
ACGC declines request to share superintendent with BLHS
GROVE CITY - A request to share their superintendent with a neighboring school district was declined this week by the Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City School Board. The ACGC school board had received a letter of inquiry last month from the Buffalo Lake-Hector-Stewart School District with...
news / regionMay 23, 2013 - 11:14pm
Boy Scouts approve plan to accept openly gay boys
GRAPEVINE, Texas (AP) — After lengthy and wrenching debate, local leaders of the Boy Scouts of America have voted to open their ranks to openly...
newsMay 24, 2013 - 9:25am
Fossil area closed after 2 boys die in St. Paul park
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — St. Paul authorities shut down a popular fossil-hunting area in a riverside park Thursday, one day after two children were...
newsMay 24, 2013 - 9:13am
Gomez pleads in stranger rape case, fighting extradition to Texas in murder case
WILLMAR -- Esequiel Gomez Jr., 21, of Texas, pleaded guilty Thursday to an amended charge of second-degree criminal sexual conduct for sexually assaulting a teenage girl last summer near the footbridge over the railroad tracks in Willmar. Assistant County Attorney Dain Olson noted...
news / localMay 23, 2013 - 11:13pm
Gov. Dayton vetoes two provisions in legacy funding bill
ST. PAUL -- Gov. Mark Dayton vetoed two provisions of a bill funding outdoors and arts projects, saying a House committee ignored a citizen advisory panel. The vetoes eliminated $3 million to fight aquatic invasive species that was destined for tribal and local governments and...
news / stateMay 23, 2013 - 12:49pm

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