State lawmakers from both sides of the aisle are decrying the purchase of about 25 plasma televisions for a sex offender treatment facility in Moose Lake. Dr. Michael Farnsworth, who had initially helped design the treatment program, says the uproar over the TVs obscures larger issues with the Minnesota Sex Offender Program.
Hundreds of low-level offenders who had been strip-searched while being booked into the Meeker County jail will begin receiving their shares of a $1.75 million settlement with the county beginning next month.
A consortium led by the University of Minnesota will receive up to $8 million in federal funding for wind energy research and education, university officials announced Tuesday.
An Austin, Minn., man bought the pet wolf after seeing an ad for it on Craigslist. But it's illegal to own a wolf in the city, so he must find another home for the animal.
Spc. George W. Cauley of Walker died Oct. 10, three days after
being wounded when insurgents attacked his vehicle with a homemade
bomb in Helmand province.
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has identified several possible solutions to the chronic flooding in Fargo-Moorhead, including a diversion plan that officials said had it been in place last March, the millions of sandbags and emergency dikes would not have been needed.
Rural Minnesota has the largest percentage of unbelted traffic deaths, according to government data released Thursday as a part of a seat belt enforcement campaign.