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Anonymous donor's $25K gift lights up St. Peter

An anonymous donor's $25,000 gift means it's beginning to look like Christmas in downtown St. Peter for the first time in years.

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St. John's Abbey to return $2 million from Petters

The abbey received the donation from the Tom Petters Foundation for the construction of the Petters Pavilion in May 2007. The pavilion is an expansion of the Abbey Chapter House.
by Ambar Espinoza

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Mountain Iron councilor sues city over street tax

Mountain Iron councilor Ed Roskoski is suing his city over a nearly $3,000 special assessment on his property for a street reconstruction project.

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10,000 Lakes Festival going on hiatus in 2010

The 10,000 Lakes Festival, which ran for the last seven summers near Detroit Lakes, Minn., is going on hiatus in 2010.
by Euan Kerr

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Ex-nursing home aide pleads not guilty to abuse

A former nursing home worker has pleaded not guilty to sexually humiliating and abusing vulnerable residents at the Good Samaritan Society of Albert Lea.

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Teleconference prepares Red Bulls for return to Minnesota

Teleconference prepares Red Bulls for return to Minnesota

They're a long way from home, but more than 1,200 Minnesota soldiers already are thinking about what they'll do when they return.
by Ambar Espinoza

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Prosecutors consider evidence in Minn. bus crash

Prosecutors consider evidence in Minn. bus crash

It's been a month since a tour bus crash in southern Minnesota killed two and injured 20, and Freeborn County prosecutors are considering the evidence.
by Elizabeth Dunbar

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Discovery Center library to remain closed

Iron Range Resources Commissioner Sandy Layman overturned the IRR board's decision to give the center $200,000 to reopen the history research library.

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Crucial power lines meant for Big Stone II still an option

The Big Stone II power plant is dead, but at least one part of the project may live on. There is interest in building the power lines planned for the abandoned coal plant project in eastern South Dakota and those lines could be crucial to the wind power industry.
by Mark Steil

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