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UPDATE: No effort to fight Superior refinery fire; evacuations could last days

Refinery workers evacuate the area during a series of fires and explosions at the Calumet refinery in Superior, Wis. Thursday. --- Clint Austin / caustin@duluthnews.com play button
UPDATE: No effort to fight Superior refinery fire; evacuations could last days
A series of explosions and fires rocked the Husky Energy oil refinery in Superior Thursday, sending a black plume of acrid smoke across the city,...
 News/fires April 26, 2018 - 5:45pm
Lauria Bible and Ashley Freeman. Craig County Sheriff's Office-National Center for Missing & Exploited Children
Disappearance of two Oklahoma girls stumped police for years. Then they learned about the Polaroids.
The accused killers kept the Polaroid photos as trophies, witnesses would later tell investigators. The frozen moments were reminders of what...
 News/crime and courts April 26, 2018 - 2:21pm
Minnesota state Rep. Rod Hamilton of Mountain Lake holds back tears as he reads a birthday card Tuesday, March 27. He turned 50 last weekend and his House Agriculture Finance Committee spent the first 10 minutes of its Tuesday meeting celebrating the event. Don Davis / Forum News Service
Minn. lawmaker accused of sexual misconduct at St. Paul apartment
ST. PAUL — Minnesota Rep. Rod Hamilton stands accused of inappropriate behavior just after the state House came under a new sexual misconduct...
 News/government and politics April 26, 2018 - 2:05pm
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Smoke plume from Husky Energy fire as seen from the air and groundplay buttonSmoke plume from Husky Energy fire as seen from the air and ground
Explosion at Husky Energyplay buttonExplosion at Husky Energy
It's a Tinderbox - Merrifield Brush Fire Moves Quicklyplay buttonIt's a Tinderbox - Merrifield Brush Fire Moves Quickly
Denfeld students participate in National School Walkout Dayplay buttonDenfeld students participate in National School Walkout Day
High winds create large waves on Lake Superiorplay buttonHigh winds create large waves on Lake Superior
Boy Scouts help the Duluth Heights Garden Club
The Duluth Heights Garden Club is looking for a few good men. And boys, girls and women, for that matter. "Anybody that wants to come and join," said club member JoAnn Daede. The oldest such club in Duluth has grown low on members in recent years, down to nine from 16 just a few...
 News May 27, 2007 - 12:00am
Body found near Minnesota River identified
BURNSVILLE, Minn.. -- Burnsville police said Thursday, April 26, that the human remains found near the Minnesota River in Burnsville on Sunday...
 News/crime and courts April 26, 2018 - 3:28pm
“Financially, we are crippled. Our credit is being threatened,” said Sue Brown on April 25, 2018. “Burnell is a 70-year-old veteran and should be enjoying retirement,” she said of her husband, Burnell Brown, who has esophageal cancer. The basement walls, retaining walls and old cabin foundation of their White Bear Lake, Minn., home are poured concrete, encasing old lead batteries. Jean Pieri / St. Paul Pioneer Press
Minn. man believes old batteries used in foundation robbed him of health, home
WHITE BEAR LAKE, Minn. — Burnell Brown can't seem to escape the hundreds of hollow auto batteries encased in his basement. Or outside,...
 lifestyle/Home and Garden April 26, 2018 - 11:03am
An employee passes an order to a customer at the drive-thru of a Subway Restaurants location in Princeton, Illinois, on April 20, 2017. MUST CREDIT: Bloomberg photo by Daniel Acker.
'It's just not what people want anymore': Subway to close hundreds of US stores
Subway Restaurants, home of the ubiquitous $5 footlong, plans to shutter hundreds of U.S. stores as consumers lose their appetite for lunch meats....
 Business/restaurants and bars April 26, 2018 - 4:05pm
Bill Cosby reacts while being notified of a verdict in his retrial on sexual assault charges at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa., April 26, 2018. The jury on Thursday voted to convict Cosby of sexually assaulting a former Temple University staff member who had looked up to him as a mentor. (Mark Makela/Pool via The New York Times/Copyright 2018)
Bill Cosby convicted on three counts of sexual assault
NORRISTOWN, Pa. - Iconic entertainer Bill Cosby was convicted Thursday on three counts of sexual assault, a decision that punctuates one of the...
 News/crime and courts April 26, 2018 - 1:30pm
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Why surgeons amputated a 7-year-old's leg and reattached it the wrong way
Not long before her 7th birthday, Amelia Eldred, a small dancer with big dreams of performing on stage, received a devastating diagnosis. Doctors...
 lifestyle/health April 26, 2018 - 4:58pm
Matters of record received April 26, 2018
District Court St. Louis County April 24 Blake M. Bonney, 22, Ashland, operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol, fined...
 News/crime and courts April 26, 2018 - 1:17pm
Aerial view of the derailment that caused the 1992 benzene spill. At bottom is the Nemadji River with a tanker car in it. (1992 file / News Tribune)
20 years later, benzene spill still stings in Duluth-Superior memories
Former Duluth Police Chief Scott Lyons was six months into his job when the "high point" of his career played out in a matter of 15 hours on...
 News June 30, 2012 - 8:00am
A family enjoys a Lakewalk ride on a surrey from Wheel Fun Rentals. The business will not be operating in Canal Park until shoreline storm damage has been repaired. (file / News Tribune)
Canal Park business closed for summer due to Lakewalk damage
Wheel Fun Rentals announced that it will be closed this summer after storms this month and in October caused more than $3 million in damages...
 Business April 25, 2018 - 5:57pm
North Dakota's Deion Harris, a 2014 Hibbing graduate, returned three of his five interceptions for touchdowns as a junior in 2016. (Photo courtesy of North Dakota athletics)
NFL draft: Hibbing's Harris looking forward
Deion Harris will be in Grand Forks, N.D., this weekend, where he's pushing hard toward the end of another semester at the University of North...
 sports April 25, 2018 - 7:32pm
Reader's View: Loosen up on what kids 'should look like'
My 9-year-old daughter recently decided to cut her hair very short. She prefers to wear loose-fitting clothes in darker colors and avoids "girl" clothes, finding them tighter and offered in a limited number of colors that aren't her favorite. Recently, she had a number of unpleasant...
 opinion/letters April 25, 2018 - 5:01pm
The wanted poster for the man known as the East Area Rapist/Golden State Killer. MUST CREDIT: FBI.
She stalked the Golden State Killer until she died. Some think her work led to the suspect's arrest.
She knew his blood type, his build, his habits and the way he breathed. She knew his twisted proclivities, embarrassing faults of his anatomy...
 News/crime and courts April 26, 2018 - 9:41am

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