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By Sarah Smith ssmith@parkrapidsenterprise.com It was a glorious Fourth. Cool, cloudy temps greeted the 700+ runners that entered the Firecracker 5K run in Park Rapids. It was perfect, most runners agreed. Boaters did report cool conditions on area lakes as a dozen or so boat...

BY Sarah smith ssmith@parkrapidsenterprise.com Laporte’s 4th on the 5th celebration featured the usual events, and one not so usual. A fight at the 3rd Base Bar & Grill ended the night. By the time deputies arrived on the scene early Sunday morning, a private vehicle had...

By Sarah Smith ssmith@parkrapidsenterprise.com A Pine River man faces numerous charges in connection with a vandalism incident late Tuesday night in Akeley. Officers found the man sometime after 11 p.m. riding a stolen bike on the Heartland Trail, said Hubbard County Sheriff...

By Sarah Smith ssmith@parkrapidsenterprise.com The Hubbard County jail will remain at 60 prisoners, the county board determined Tuesday. But it did authorize Sheriff Cory Aukes to sign a contract with the Department of Corrections to furnish the county a guaranteed 20 inmates. Aukes...

BY Sarah smith ssmith@parkrapidsenterprise.com The Laporte community will get its new shelter/playground/ park project within the next two years. Four years in the making, lots of fundraising, arm twisting and political cajoling, the Hubbard County Board on Tuesday gave the thumbs...

By Sarah Smith ssmith@parkrapidsenterprise.com Enbridge is hearing the opposition to its proposed Sandpiper pipeline, company officials said Wednesday. “Well, certainly we’ve had a lot of input and feedback from folks along the route and that’s to be expected. We see that...

BY Sarah smith ssmith@parkrapidsenterprise.com A rush hour crash on Highway 34 sent two ambulances of victims to the Park...

BY Sarah smith ssmith@parkrapidsenterprise.com A tractor fire south of Dorset sent Park Rapids firefighters scurrying because of the gale-force winds involved. The three trucks that responded were trying to keep flames from spreading to the adjacent...

By Sarah Smith ssmith@parkrapidsenterprise.com A conundrum is brewing over municipal water systems. Park Rapids, like most American cities, is mandated by law to add fluoride to its water. Seventy percent of all water supplies in the U.S. have fluoride added. But study after...

By Sarah Smith ssmith@parkrapidsenterprise.com A Menahga man abruptly withdrew his guilty plea Monday morning in the February death of a Park...

BY Sarah smith ssmith@parkrapidsenterprise.com One month before a Benedict surgeon was charged with trying to choke his...

BY Sarah smith ssmith@parkrapidsenterprise.com A surgeon from Benedict faces three felony charges in connection with the alleged choking of his 10-year-old foster son. Dennis James Sulllivan Jr., 50, is charged with attempted Second Degree Murder, First Degree Assault and Second...