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UPDATE: Gridlock in Superior as evacuations ordered

A large fireball erupts during a series of fires and explosions at the Calumet refinery in Superior, Wis. Thursday. --- Clint Austin / caustin@duluthnews.com play button
UPDATE: Gridlock in Superior as evacuations ordered
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 - 2:27pm
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
“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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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
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Explosion at Husky Energyplay buttonExplosion at Husky Energy
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Denfeld students participate in National School Walkout Dayplay buttonDenfeld students participate in National School Walkout Day
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
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
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
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
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
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
Chisholm city administrator fired
Chisholm City Councilor Kevin Scaia has confirmed to WDIO-TV on Wednesday that the city administrator has been terminated. In an email, Scaia...
 News/government and politics April 25, 2018 - 10:30pm
Central Minnesota boy dies month after crash with semi-truck
NEW LONDON, Minn. — A New London boy died Wednesday after being injured last month in a car crash. According to the family's CaringBridge site, Nathaniel Shumaker, 11, died at the Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis. He was critically injured March 28 when a vehicle driven...
 News/accidents April 26, 2018 - 10:16am
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
Lake Superior College (News Tribune file photo)
Scholarships available for adults returning to college
Minnesota is offering $1 million in scholarships to help adult students finish their college careers. The 500 scholarships of $3,000 each are...
 News/education April 25, 2018 - 2:11pm
Jeffery George Ackerson, Jr., and Sheena Marie Ackerson are facing charges related to the fire that destroyed their home in Bird Island on Jan. 15. Photo submitted by Renville County Sheriff's Department
Owners of Bird Island home destroyed by fire now face charges
OLIVIA, Minn.—The owners of a Bird Island home destroyed by fire in January have now been charged in connection with that fire. Jeffrey...
 News/crime and courts April 25, 2018 - 8:01pm
A Port Authority official berated and cursed at officers during a traffic stop. A dash cam was on.
There is, of course, no official manual on how to use an official government position to get officers to tear up a ticket, but for any enterprising...
 News/nation April 25, 2018 - 3:01pm

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