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For the second consecutive year, Explore Minnesota, the state’s tourism promotion office, in partnership with Minneapolis-based marketing agency Monopoint Media, has launched a statewide winter scavenger hunt. Park Rapids is a participant this year with a checkpoint at Itasca State...

By Emily Welker / The Forum MOORHEAD – A driver accused of being drunk in a hit-and-run accident here on Monday night told police he didn’t recall the incident beyond when his female passenger – who was badly injured in the crash – kissed him and passed out. Jose Amador...

By Brady Slater/ Duluth News Tribune In the race for the 8th District heats up in advance of Nov. 4 balloting, it’s beginning to look a lot like a mud fight. Republicans are parsing photographs of incumbent Democrat Rick Nolan handling rifles and condemning...

A Frazee man is accused of coming to the home of a 13-year-old Moorhead girl he met on Facebook and coercing her into having sex while her grandmother and mother were at work. Grant Michael Kiehl, 28, then told his victim he’d “have to find someone to hurt her”...

An Ogema woman faces felony charges of second-degree murder and first-degree manslaughter in the death of a man found lying on the roadway in Maple Grove Township Friday night. Jessica Marie Kilde, 33, of 46420 Highway 34, Ogema is accused in the death of her boyfriend,...

By Nathan Bowe / DL Newspapers DETROIT LAKES, Minn. — Detroit Mountain is a whirlwind of activity as a new four-seasons park comes together. The Detroit Mountain Recreation Area is on track to be open for skiing, tubing and snowboarding this winter. On a recent...

Record rainfall and 70- to 80-mph winds battered the northern Red River Valley, especially between Larimore, N.D., and Crookston, Minn., on Monday night. The National Weather Service said winds higher than 80 mph were recorded in Crookston, while gusts reached...

ST. PAUL — Within weeks of its debut, “American Sniper” was in the upper echelons of the New York Times Best Seller list and flying off store shelves faster than Chris Kyle or his publishers had thought possible.Something else was catching on just as fast: an account from the...

A Bemidji man faces charges after allegedly trying to kill himself and a passenger by rolling his car last weekend on U.S. Highway 2. Kenneth Oscar Osmundson, 24, was charged Wednesday in Beltrami County Court with second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon and terroristic...

By Pippi Mayfield / Detroit Lakes Newspapers FRAZEE, Minn. – After 30-plus years of uncertainty, the Andersen family finally knows their daughter and sister, Mary, is dead. The Frazee family found out last week that Mary, who had been gone since 1981, was killed...

Andrea Boeve had one of those 1,000-watt smiles that could light up a room. Her laugh, friends say, was loud and happy and contagious. “I wish you could have heard it,” said Leah Sternhagen, who lived on the same dormitory floor as Boeve when the two attended South...

By Crystal Dey BEMIDJI -- A woman who attempted to burn down her trailer house to evict her son was convicted of felony first-degree arson Monday. Mary June Klasen, 57, of Bemidji was arrested for arson when she lit two fires at her mobile home at Roosevelt Manor Mobile...

By Nadia Faulx/ Forum News Service DICKINSON, N.D. - A Mandan man is recovering from severe self-inflicted burns after a drug trip went south Monday afternoon. David Kissee, 33, lit himself on fire near DJ’s Tesoro gas station on 12th Street West around noon Monday, authorities...

By Peter Passi / Duluth News tribune After three disappointing ski seasons in a row, Renee Mattson is praying for the kind of cold snowy winter Duluth consistently delivered in years past. “This is a crucial year for us,” said Mattson, Spirit Mountain’s executive director....