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Storm traps 100 students at SW Minn. school

Storm traps 100 students at SW Minn. school

A winter storm roared into Minnesota on Monday, trapping at least 100 students in their school, closing roads in the southern and southwestern part of the state and prompting the governor to activate the National Guard.

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ELCA hopes to recover seminarian's body in Haiti

Officials of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America hope to persuade the U.S. Embassy in Haiti to work at recovering the body of a seminarian presumed killed in the earthquake that destroyed much of Port-au-Prince.

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Special election will seat new state senator in southern Minn.

Special election will seat new state senator in southern Minn.

A special election Tuesday in the Owatonna area in Southern Minnesota will decide who will fill the seat of longtime Republican state Sen. Dick Day, who announced last month he was leaving the Senate after six terms.
by Elizabeth Baier

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Benton County bounces checks to employees, vendors

Benton County in central Minnesota bounced about 20 checks to employees and vendors this month.

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Feds file antitrust suit against Dean Foods

The lawsuit says Dean's 2009 acquisition of Foremost Farms USA's Consumer Products Division eliminates substantial competition in the sale of milk in Wisconsin, Illinois and Michigan.

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Judge reduces damages in illegal file sharing case

A federal judge has drastically reduced the damages a Brainerd woman must pay for illegally copying music.
by Bob Kelleher

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State Patrol: I-90 bus crash nearly much worse

The Minnesota State Patrol says a fatal charter bus crash on Interstate 90 last year narrowly missed being much worse.

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Haiti earthquake survivors from Wahpeton come home

Wahpeton nurse Brenda Marzigliano and Georgia Dufault, a former Breckenridge, Minn., resident who now works in Moorhead, were stationed at a hospital about 80 miles north of Port-au-Prince when the quake hit.

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Snowmobiler killed by truck in southern Minn.

Steele County Sheriff Gary Ringhofer says the 64-year-old man died Thursday afternoon while crossing a road on his snowmobile.

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Ely bear gives birth to cub on den webcam

Ely bear gives birth to cub on den webcam

Researchers watching the black bear's den near Ely announced the birth online and noted the high-pitched cries of a newly born bear cub on the center's webcam.
by Elizabeth Dunbar

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