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Disasters

Bear returns to Eau Claire neighborhood

A black bear has awakened from hibernation and returned to an Eau Claire neighborhood where it's frightening residents, going through garbage cans and breaking bird feeders.

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Red River peak expected after April 15

Red River peak expected after April 15

Experts with the U.S. Geological Survey and National Weather Service say peak flooding on the Red River in Fargo will likely occur after April 15.

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Fargo takes action to lessen impact of flooding

Fargo takes action to lessen impact of flooding

The landscape has changed dramatically since the record flooding of the Red River: Hundreds of once-vulnerable homes are now gone and miles of concrete floodwalls and clay levees add new protections as communities on the river's banks brace for it to overflow yet again.

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Fargo readies sandbags in advance of Red River flooding

Fargo readies sandbags in advance of Red River flooding

Sandbags were being filled Wednesday morning in Fargo in preparation for flooding later this month when the Red River is expected to spill out of its banks.
by Dan Gunderson

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State: Infant deaths in child care decrease

Minnesota human services officials say the number of infant deaths in child care settings has dropped significantly this year.

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Fargo mayor optimistic as flooding nears

Fargo mayor optimistic as flooding nears

Crews in Fargo will start filling sandbags Wednesday to prepare for possible flooding in the city.
by Elizabeth Dunbar

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Fargo preparing to make sandbags

Fargo officials are preparing for volunteers to fill sandbags.

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Forgotten US airship crash recalled 80 years later

Forgotten US airship crash recalled 80 years later

Newsreel footage and radio announcer Herbert Morrison's plaintive cry, "Oh, the humanity!" made the 1937 explosion of the Hindenburg at the Lakehurst Naval Air Station probably the best-known crash of an airship. But just four years earlier, a U.S. Navy airship crashed only about 40 miles away, claiming more than twice as many lives.

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ID for cyclist killed in Mpls. accident

The bicyclist who was killed by an alleged hit-and-run driver in Hennepin County over the weekend has been identified as a 28-year-old Minneapolis woman.

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Victim of plane crash was Duluth man, 48

Clay County authorities have identified the victim of a fatal small-plane crash as Kevin Ferris of Duluth.

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