Articles

Arrest made in $800,000 tax refund error

A Duluth businessman who skipped town rather than show up for court a year and a half ago — after allegedly spending almost $800,000 erroneously refunded to him by the Minnesota Department of Revenue — was arrested at a Goodhue County campground Thursday night.

• Kevin Charles Owens

Perpetrator of Holiday Center restroom fire sentenced

A person who started a fire in a Holiday Center bathroom and tampered with the sprinkling system was sentenced Thursday to 18 months in prison, but the sentence was stayed for five years of probation, including the condition that the defendant not come within one block of the center.

Holiday Center arsonist gets 18-month sentence, probation

Sasha Marie Olsen, 19, pleaded guilty to second-degree arson in connection with a Feburary fire in a Holiday Center bathroom; a charge of aiding and abetting a fire alarm violation was dismissed.

• Sasha Olsen
• Matters of Record

Duluth and Superior firefighters, police work to solve series of arson fires

Police and fire officials are being especially tight with public comment as investigators work to solve a spree of arson fires in the Twin Ports and try to determine both “the method of madness” and who is mad.

• Map of recent arson fires

Man accused of stalking wife, kids through four states to face firearms charges in North Dakota

Charges filed in Duluth against a man accused of stalking his wife and children through four states have been dismissed because there is insufficient evidence he committed a crime here, but he has been indicted by a North Dakota grand jury for being a felon in possession of a firearm during the period of the alleged stalking.

• Nathaniel Michael Jaffe-Norris

Newspaper executive caught in Duluth prostitution sting

A newspaper executive received a probationary sentence after being caught in a prostitution sting conducted by the Lake Superior Drug and Gang Task Force in a Duluth motel room.

Driver texted before crash with school bus in Hermantown

It was a textbook example of why a person shouldn’t text while driving.

• Accident

Hermantown accident 'perfect example' against texting in car

Hermantown police said that Gary Davey, 38, of the Duluth area, admitted that he was texting when he smashed his car into the back of another vehicle Thursday on Midway Road, propelling it into a Proctor school bus loaded with students.

• Amy Senser's attorney requests new trial in hit-and-run case

State Supreme Court places Hibbing lawyer on probation

A Hibbing lawyer has been publicly reprimanded by the Minnesota Supreme Court and placed on two years of probation for unprofessional conduct, including failing to provide competent representation and charging unreasonable fees.

Hibbing lawyer reprimanded for unprofessional conduct

Jon Rice, who was licensed to practice law in 1975, admitted the allegations in a petition by the Office of Lawyers Professional Responsibility.

Columns

Mark Stodghill: Run smart, but don’t give up too easily

Sometimes there’s a very fine line between throwing in the towel or using the towel to wipe the sweat from your face, dig a little deeper into your soul, and carry on.

For out-of-town runners, the race is the easy part

A half-naked city of about 9,000 runners will assemble just south of Two Harbors on Saturday for the 31st annual Grandma’s Marathon. The competitors come from all 50 states, the District of Columbia and 50 countries.