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    A driver uses a cell phone while stuck in trafffic in New York in file photo. (Rob Bennett/Copyright 2018 The New York Times)
    Places that write lots of tickets for distracted driving also have lower fatal crash rates, analysis finds
    Places that write a lot of tickets for distracted driving appear to have lower fatal crash rates than places that don't, according to a report...
    news/traffic-and-construction1 hour 7 min ago
    Submitted file photo by Rand Middleton
    Willmar brush site to open for the season Saturday
    WILLMAR — The brush disposal/compost site for Willmar will be open starting Saturday. The site is for city of Willmar residents only. Hours...
    news/science-and-nature2 hours 20 sec ago
    Submitted This photo by ISG of Mankato shows some of the bank sloughing found in Renville County Ditch 66.
    Renville County calls for ditch repair bids
    OLIVIA — Renville County is calling for bids to repair County Ditch 66, which was upgraded and rerouted at a cost of $2.2 million in 1998....
    news/government-and-politics2 hours 49 min ago
    Renville County to launch restorative justice program for juvenile offenders
    OLIVIA — Juvenile offenders will typically get charged, pay a fine, and do it all over again, while virtually nothing is done about problems...
    news/government-and-politics3 hours 30 min ago
    Records published April 25
    This is the records summary for April 25. Willmar man sentenced for drug charge after raid WILLMAR — A Willmar man, who faced four drug...
    news/crime-and-courts4 hours 9 min ago
    First lady Barbara Bush watches as President George H. W. Bush is congratulated by Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist after being sworn in as the 41st president of the United States, in Washington, Jan. 20, 1989. (Jose R. Lopez/Copyright The New York Times)
    'I thought I was done': George H.W. Bush faced death at 20 during WWII
    Just one day after his wife was buried, former President George H.W. Bush contracted an infection that spread to his blood and was hospitalized....
    news/government-and-politics4 hours 30 min ago
    April 24, 2018
    Nicholas Aaron Lofquist-Sprangel Courtesy of the Ramsey County Sheriff's Office
    Man who stole from wealthy Minnesota philanthropist sent to prison
    ST. PAUL—Nicholas Lofquist-Sprangel didn't have to go to great lengths to steal from John Nasseff while he worked as the late St. Paul...
    news/crime-and-courts11 hours 32 min ago
    President Donald Trump at Bethesda-by-the-Sea Church to attend Easter Sunday service, in Palm Beach, Fla., April 1, 2018. Trump, blaming Democrats and the Mexican government for an increasingly “dangerous” flow of illegal immigrants, unleashed a series of fiery tweets on Sunday in which he vowed “NO MORE DACA DEAL” and threatened to walk away from the North American Free Trade Agreement. (Tom Brenner/Copyright 2018 The New York Times)
    Federal judge: Trump administration must accept new DACA applicants
    WASHINGTON - A District of Columbia federal judge has delivered the toughest blow yet to Trump administration efforts to end deportation protections...
    news/government-and-politics11 hours 47 min ago
    Federal lawsuit hopes to change way state, county 'unfairly' take away children --especially in black families
    ST. PAUL—Dwight Mitchell says spanking his child led to Dakota County social services tearing his family apart. Mitchell filed a lawsuit...
    news/crime-and-courts11 hours 52 min ago
    North St. Paul Assistant Fire Chief Dustin Kalis is shown in an undated courtesy photo. During a fire in North St. Paul on April 22, 2018, a man dropped his baby down from a second-story balcony, and Kalis caught her, rescuing the baby from the fire and then coaching her father down. (Courtesy of Dustin Kalis)
    Minnesota firefighter catches baby dropped from apartment
    NORTH ST. PAUL, Minn. --- As smoke filled the hallways of his 24-unit apartment complex on Sunday afternoon, a North St. Paul father began...
    news/fires12 hours 21 min ago
    Central Minn. man dies after vehicle he was driving loses control, rolls
    A 46-year-old Brainerd man was killed Tuesday morning when the Jeep pickup he was driving lost control on the Highway 371 exit ramp to Business...
    news/accidents12 hours 50 min ago
    Jennifer Carnahan, elected to her role as chairperson of the Minnesota Republican Party in 2016, said she shares a similar rise as GOP candidate Pete Stauber -- a virtually unknown political outsider, suddenly thrust into the spotlight. Submitted photo / Minnesota Republican Party
    Minnesota GOP sees land of opportunity in 8th District
    DULUTH—The 8th Congressional District might be Democratic-Farmer-Labor country, but don't tell that to Minnesota Republicans. Banking on...
    news/government-and-politics12 hours 53 min ago
    Shawn Michael Konder Submitted photo
    Machete-wielding Minnesota driver charged with murder for fatally striking bystander while fleeing police
    ST. PAUL -- A St. Paul man faces a murder charge after crashing into a car while drunkenly fleeing police and killing the other driver, authorities...
    news/crime-and-courts14 hours 25 min ago
    One of the founders of the Minnesota Republican Farmer Labor Caucus, Rep. Tim Miller of Prinsburg, talks in the House Tuesday, April 24, 2018. The Democratic Farmer Labor Party wants the group to change its name. Don Davis / Forum News Service
    DFL demands GOP farm group change name, logo
    ST. PAUL — Rural Republican Minnesota House members wanted to make the point that Democrats often ignore farmers. The Democratic-Farmer-Labor...
    news/government-and-politics15 hours 5 min ago
    Human remains found near Minnesota River are ‘suspicious,’ sheriff says
    BURNSVILLE, Minn. -- Human remains found this weekend along the Minnesota River in Burnsville are “suspicious” and will be autopsied later...
    news/crime-and-courts15 hours 27 min ago
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