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Superior oil refinery rocked by explosions, fire

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
Superior oil refinery rocked by explosions, fire
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 - 7:34pm
Shana Ross of Superior evacuates her cat Smudgie from her home on East 13th Street in Superior after a series of fires and explosions at the Husky Energy oil refinery in Superior Thursday. Ross remarked, "She does not travel well, as you can hear she's already unhappy."--- Clint Austin / caustin@duluthnews.com
Witnesses and residents recount Superior refinery explosion
Eric Mathews, a boilermaker for Wales, Wis.-based CTS Inc. contractors working inside the refinery, said he was about 200 yards away on break...
 News/fires April 26, 2018 - 9:07pm
3 charged in incident at protest camp near Cloquet
Three people face charges after a disturbance at an anti-pipeline encampment on the Fond du Lac Reservation led to a scuffle with police on Tuesday...
 News/crime and courts April 26, 2018 - 7:09pm
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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
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
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
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
Minnesota state Rep. Rod Hamilton of Mountain Lake emerges from his office Thursday, April 26, after being accused of sexual misconduct. Don Davis / Forum News Service
Minnesota lawmaker accused of sexual misconduct
ST. PAUL -- A state representative, who often fights for agriculture and people with disabilities, stands accused of inappropriate behavior.
 News/government and politics April 26, 2018 - 2:05pm
“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
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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
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
Rendering of Zvago, a proposed 51-unit cooperative senior housing development at 3900 London Rd. Courtesy of Ecumen
Variance for London Road cooperative approved
A new senior cooperative housing development dubbed Zvago Superior Shore soon could be coming to Duluth. The Duluth Planning Commission recently...
 News April 25, 2018 - 6:45pm
Sam Cook
Sam Cook column: The trout don't know how lucky they are
Well, we're not headed up to the canoe country to go lake trout fishing this spring. Or so it appears. The ice has us. Four of us make the trip...
 sports/outdoors April 26, 2018 - 4:32pm
Complaint: Minnesota utility worker filmed kids using toilet
ALEXANDRIA, Minn.—Fourth-grade students and adults were filmed using a toilet during the 2016 Douglas County Groundwater Festival, in Alexandria, Minn. Alexandria Light and Power Utilities' former water treatment plant superintendent is facing criminal charges in connection...
 News/crime and courts April 26, 2018 - 5:50pm

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