Blackduck News

Chris Niskanen / An "unprecedented" number of firearms were seized from Minnesota hunters last weekend as illegal deer baiting reached new high levels, say Minnesota Department of Natural Resources officials.

Submitted by Journal Staff on October 26, 2009 - 1:43pm. Police Reports Betsy M. Hanks, 25, was taken into custody Friday by investigators with the Beltrami Sheriffa s Office and Bureau of Criminal Apprehension in connection with a shooting death in Shooks Township near Kelliher earlier in the week.

Beltrami Co., MN - Around 3:30 a.m. Wednesday, the Beltrami County Sheriff's Office Dispatch received a faint cell phone call from a hunter reporting he was lost in the woods.

Share + Oct 14, 2009 12:04 pm US/Central QUIRING TOWNSHIP, Minn. A lost hunter who wasn't wearing any shoes and socks was found overnight after authorities were able to track him down because of his cell phone signal.

Minnesota pro angler Scott Steil came from second place and 8 pounds down on the final day of fishing to win the Wal-Mart FLW Walleye Tour Championship.

Submitted by Journal Staff on September 18, 2009 - 11:35am. Matt Baron, 86, of Silver Bay, Minn., formerly of International Falls, Minn., died Sunday, Sept.

Two people are presumed drowned after their boat overturned in Blackduck Lake near the city of Blackduck Tuesday afternoon.

According to Beltrami County Sheriff's, yesterday around 4:00 in the afternoon, the sheriff's office received a 911 call reporting a capsized boat on Blackduck Lake.

A missing 10-year-old Blackduck, MN boy has been found. A Minnesota Crime Alert for Angelo Bell was canceled at 10:50 p.m. on Monday night.

The Beltrami County Sheriff's Office is investigating the disappearance of a 10-year-old boy in Blackduck.

Bada Bing! is for sale. Villellaa s Bada Bing!, a sports bar and restaurant located in the former Union Station, opened for business one year ago.

Keith Coburn, 20, of Blackduck, was injured in an all-terrain vehicle crash at 5 p.m. Sunday.

Paul Bunyan Telephone, Bemidjia s telecommunications provider of voice, video and data, will disburse $2.8 million later this year in patronage payments.

Minnesota's low-income weatherization program is getting $131 million from the federal government -- about 13 times what it usually gets.

The public school board in Warroad, Minn., voted this week to go to a four-day school week starting next fall, as part of cost-cutting effort.

New York- HISTORYTM's #1 series is headed to Alaska, 250 miles north of the Arctic Circle - to where a group of elite truckers face their most perilous journey yet .

Don Houseman needed to make sure his mother was all right with being the cow character in his story before his first childrena s book, a oeHow Harvey and His Friends Save the Barn,a was complete.

National Poetry Month open mic event will be held at 7 p.m. today at the Wild Rose Theater, 501 Bemidji Ave.