Greater Minnesota

Duluth public workers strike averted
A strike could have crippled Duluth snowplowing, clerical work, natural gas and water operations. Libraries would have closed.
The Minnesota Public Utilties Commission (PUC) has approved some key permits for the Mesaba Energy Project; a proposed coal-gasification power plant on the Iron Range.
Bill Lawrence, a journalist who was a watchdog of Minnesota's tribal governments for more than two decades, has died after a fight with prostate cancer. He was 70.
A federal grand jury has indicted a 19-year-old man in a stabbing death on the Red Lake Indian Reservation last month.
New Brighton police are asking for the public's help in solving the murder of a retired firefighter.
Authorities say it appears the deaths of two newlyweds in the southeastern Minnesota town of Nodine were a murder-suicide.
Devin Gray appeared Wednesday before Otter Tail County District Judge Mark Hansen as charges of second-degree manslaughter and failing to render assistance were read to him.