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International Falls Fire Chief Adam Mannausau displays the sky lantern he found on the roof of his house last week. He used the example to illustrate how dangerous the celebratory lanterns can be and to remind people that the devices are illegal in the state of Minnesota. Photo courtesy of International Falls Fire Department
I-Falls fire chief finds sky lantern on roof
Adam Mannausau was backing out of the driveway last week when something on the roof of his house caught his eye. The International Falls fire...
 News April 19, 2018 - 10:00pm
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Younkers, Herberger’s closing sale starts Friday
Time to dig out those gift cards — the Younkers department store at Miller Hill Mall in Duluth and the Herberger’s at the Thunderbird Mall...
 Business/retail April 19, 2018 - 5:36pm
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Accused Minnesota 'killer grandma' caught in Texas
SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas -- Minnesota fugitive Lois Riess was apprehended Thursday night in south Texas, ending a nationwide manhunt for the...
 News/crime and courts April 19, 2018 - 10:46pm
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NTSB investigators examine damage to the engine of the Southwest Airlines plane that made an emergency landing in Philadelphia on Tuesday, April 17. NTSB handout
Southwest flight hero describes how woman who died was sucked halfway out of plane
A passenger who was onboard Southwest Airlines flight 1380 on April 17 emotionally described Thursday, April 19, how he and others tried to save...
 News/accidents April 20, 2018 - 8:05am
The RMS Titanic. Library of Congress.
Why you've never heard of the six Chinese men who survived the Titanic
In the early hours of April 15, 1912, a lifeboat navigated the frigid waters of the North Atlantic Ocean, its skeleton crew scanning the dark,...
 News/accidents April 19, 2018 - 9:45pm
Reader's View: No secret why population decreasing
The March 24 story, "Population: Flat line," quoted a professor of economics from the College of St. Scholastica and included a chart showing Duluth's population to be at minus-0.4 percent. The professor stated that economic growth comes from two things, more workers or more productive...
 opinion/letters April 19, 2018 - 8:51pm
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'Absolutely despicable': Boater picked up stranded Hawaii flood victims, demanded money to save them, authorities say
There were many of good deeds on the Hawaiian island of Kauai over the past week and one particularly bad one. Hawaii's stunning "garden island"...
 News/crime and courts April 20, 2018 - 7:50am
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Sam Cook column: For two boys, fishing season is already here
Here they came, down the snow-packed trail toward us on Wednesday night in Duluth. Two of them. Young boys, it appeared from a distance. Each...
 sports/outdoors April 20, 2018 - 5:00am
911 dispatcher sentenced to jail after hanging up on thousands of callers
It took Hua Li two minutes and three tries to get help from Houston 911 as a convenience store owner lay bleeding to death on the floor of his...
 News/crime and courts April 19, 2018 - 12:50pm
Three arrested in Hibbing robbery
Three suspects are in custody and a fourth is being sought by Hibbing police after a woman was reportedly robbed at gunpoint Wednesday afternoon....
 News/crime and courts April 19, 2018 - 6:57pm
University of Minnesota Duluth track and field distance runners Kendall Hill (from left), Owen Smalley, Cody Sedbrook, Henry Jessen, Luke Lahr and Isaac Overmyer run along Skyline Parkway near Chester Bowl in Duluth Thursday afternoon. Clint Austin / caustin@duluthnews.com
First 50 in nearly six months!
Duluth officially topped 50 degrees Thursday for the first time since Oct. 23, nearly six months, and, not to jinx it, it appears spring has...
 News April 19, 2018 - 7:28pm
Two Florida sheriff's deputies shot to death through restaurant window
A Florida sheriff's office said two of its deputies were shot and killed through a restaurant window by an assailant who was then found dead...
 News/nation April 19, 2018 - 7:43pm
Jeanne Ann McKenzie
Jeanne Ann McKenzie Jeanne (Jacksino) McKenzie, 74, passed away on April 16, 2018 after a long battle with Alzheimer's Disease. She was born...
 April 20, 2018 - 10:38am
A Thursday pursuit involving the Bemidji Police Department resulted in a vehicle going into the Mississippi River. A Bemidji Police Department vehicle stopped short of the river, just over the edge of a steep decline. The incident was north of Carr Lake, south of the city limits. (Jordan Shearer | Bemidji Pioneer)
Bemidji police pursuit ends with car in river
BEMIDJI—A pursuit of two people by the Bemidji Police Department ended with the suspect's car in the Mississippi River on Thursday afternoon....
 News/crime and courts April 19, 2018 - 4:35pm
Duluth Marshall's George Grannis controls the puck near Duluth East's Nick Lanigan during the teams' December 2017 game at Heritage Center. (Clint Austin / caustin@duluthnews.com)
Prep boys hockey: Marshall's Grannis commits to Clarkson
Two years ago, George Grannis still was stewing after being left off Orono's roster for the Section 2A boys hockey playoffs. Thursday, Grannis...
 sports/hockey April 19, 2018 - 10:16pm

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