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A juvenile in central Minnesota is the latest person to die in a hunting accident at the start of Minnesota’s firearms deer season. The Kanabec County sheriff’s office says authorities were called to a hunting …
08 Nov 11
D Clayton Stoner injured his finger in the second period of an Oct. 27 game against Anaheim. He missed his fourth straight game Saturday vs. St. Louis. He is close to a return. C Matt …
07 Nov 11
Vikings coaches and front-office personnel are meeting this week to discuss the future of Chris Cook, the troubled cornerback who was suspended last week after being charged with felony domestic assault. “We’re just seeing what …
07 Nov 11
A teenager who was accidentally tangled in a hangman’s noose while acting at a Halloween haunted house was out of intensive care on Wednesday and recovering from the incident that left her briefly not breathing and unconscious, police said.
07 Nov 11
Pale-faced but smiling, the crew of a long-duration isolation study emerged bleary-eyed to daylight and applause Friday after 520 days locked away in windowless, cramped cells to simulate the length of a journey to Mars.
07 Nov 11
Prominent Islamic militants in London were targeted by a private investigator working for Rupert Murdoch’s now-closed News of the World tabloid, according to data obtained by Reuters.
07 Nov 11
Menachem Begin did not pull his punches. In 1981, as work neared completion on an Iraqi nuclear reactor that Israel believed would produce plutonium for warheads, the Israeli prime minister dispatched eight F-16 bombers to destroy the plant. Begin later said that the raid was proof his country would “under no circumstances allow the enemy to develop weapons of mass-destruction against our people”.
07 Nov 11
The American Red Cross Bloodmobile is making a few stops around the area this week. The need for blood is constant, with someone in the US needing a blood transfusion every 2 seconds. Around 44,000 …
