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St. Paul, MN - Twenty-five Minnesota hospitals this month received a total of 31 awards recognizing their work to prevent the most prevalent types of adverse health events, such as accidental falls.

Comment on This Story / Send This Article to a Friend NewsMakers May newsmakers 5/5/2009 Ann Bancroft Awards Elizabeth Kuoppala of Eveleth is one of four recipients of the 12th annual Dream Maker Awards, sponsored by the foundation named after and founded by the Minnesota polar explorer.

A Grand Rapids man was sentenced for a string of burglaries in Itasca and Aitkin Counties last fall.

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Residents of Minnesota saw a huge warm-up yesterday - temperatures were in the 40s Saturday afternoon after being well below zero Friday morning.

For The Associated Press= Frigid temperatures were in store for residents of the East and Midwest on Wednesday and snow greeted those in the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes, while the West was clear and hot.

A 60-year-old Bovey man was charged Nov. 17 in Itasca County District Court with four felony counts of criminal sexual conduct and two gross misdemeanor counts of furnishing alcohol to a minor.

This "Chik's Pics" blog is dedicated to photos submitted by viewers like you from last weekend's storm.

Grand Rapids Public Works employees were removing a massive row of snow on Monday, left by snowplows in front of Grand Rapids City Hall as a result of Sundaya s blizzard which hit most of Northern Minnesota.

A 52-year-old Cass Lake man died Tuesday when his car swerved into the path of a logging truck near Bena, the Minnesota State Patrol said.

A Bovey man has been charged with sexually abusing a teenage boy. 59-year-old David Allen Sigfrinius faces four felonies and two gross misdemeanors.