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GRANITE FALLS -- The land where warriors and soldiers fought the final battle of the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862 will be recognized as a national historic site. Wood Lake Battlefield has been approved to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places, Tom Hosier, founder of the...

We all need to take a minute on Sept. 17 to remember those who are still POWs and MIAs. We also need to remember the families of these unfortunate comrades as the Department of Defense could not locate these servicemen or their remains. That is sad. On this issue, as with most other...

An excerpt from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States: From The Associated Press On casualties of war: The difficulties of fighting wars from Vietnam to Iraq to Afghanistan became evident again recently when NATO claimed an airstrike killed at least 12 insurgents...

The news in that massive data dump provided by the dauntingly mysterious Wikileaks (who? what?) to one American and two European publications is that there is no news at all. We already knew that the war in Afghanistan was not going well. We already knew -- or, in the words of The...

SAN DIEGO -- Because of Arizona's spiteful new immigration law, a border conference meant to bring people together is having the opposite effect. The last time there was this much heated rhetoric flying across the U.S.-Mexico border, James K. Polk was president, American foreign...

On April 15, NBC newscaster Brian Williams listed, in percentages, the taxes the Tea Party members complain about. He also pointed out that 30 percent was covered by borrowed money. I was impressed until I realized his list had not included war-related expenditures. The following...

SAN DIEGO -- The dust-up with Israel has some folks wondering if the Obama administration is going out of its way to be unfriendly to America's friends. Add Mexico to the list. How galling it must be for Mexican President Felipe Calderon -- who is locked in a bloody war with drug...

The nuns are right. The bishops are wrong. I know what you're thinking: Who am I, a nice Jewish girl from Lynn, to be telling bishops and nuns who is right? If this were a theological question, I'd agree; I wouldn't go near it. But the current war raging inside the Catholic establishment...

BENSON -- Charles Elmer Hoberg, 39, of Benson, pleaded guilty Tuesday to a felony charge of dangerous weapons/drive-by shooting toward a motor vehicle or building for his role in shooting up a rural Benson man's home and attempting to run the man over with a vehicle. As part of a...

GRANITE FALLS -- Union soldiers and Dakota warriors who clashed in a violent conflict 147 years ago may be remembered on the western Minnesota prairie where they gave their lives, and where the bodies of some still lie. Gene Flaten, representing the Wood Lake Battlefield Preservation...

MONTEVIDEO -- While hundreds of National Guard troops from west central Minnesota are deployed in Iraq, an Iraqi-American came calling to introduce children to the country. Sami Rasouli, director of the Muslim Peacemaker Teams, told a small gathering Monday in Montevideo how he is...

An excerpt from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States . By The Associated Press On the anniversary of the war in Afghanistan: This week marks the eighth anniversary of the U.S.-led war against the Taliban in Afghanistan, and although the situation there is more pressing...