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Former state legislator and the original Happy Chef, Marcel “Sal” Frederick, passed away Monday morning. Frederick served the residents of Blue Earth, Nicollet and Waseca Counties as the District 24B State Representative from 1985 to …
25 Sep 12
The Minnesota National Guard’s Agribusiness Development Team is returning home today (TUE) following its first-ever deployment to Afghanistan. Their mission was to help Afghan farmers get better crop yields and better prices for products to …
25 Sep 12
The high cost of corn has led to a southern Minnesota ethanol plant being closed down for now. The Biofuel Energy Corporation says it is idling its Fairmont ethanol plant until it can “secure local …
25 Sep 12
Minnesota farmers continue to make rapid progress on the state’s soybean harvest. The USDA weekly crop progress report for the state says that producers have harvested 45% of the soybean crop as of Sunday, up …
25 Sep 12
A new group of wind turbines currently being erected in southern Minnesota will become the tallest wind towers in the state upon their completion. The new turbines going up near Worthington will be 430-feet high …
25 Sep 12
Authorities are offering a $1,000 reward for information on the fatal assault of an MSU-Mankato student in an alley in St. Cloud. Twenty-year-old Colton Ryan Gleason of Greenfield was attacked Thursday night. He died of …
24 Sep 12
A New Ulm woman was injured while visiting the Morgan Creek Vineyards near New Ulm Saturday evening when she was run over by a John Deere Gator. The incident occurred at shortly after 6pm Saturday. …
24 Sep 12
A man was killed by a train in southern Minnesota Sunday night. Authorities in Rice County are continuing to investigate the death after the man was hit by a train in Dundas at around 11:30pm …
24 Sep 12
The KNUJ Hometown Hero for December is a group this month: the New Ulm Community Friends organization. For 26 years now hundreds of volunteers have banded together to prepare and serve a free Thanksgiving meal …
