Dilworth News

A Dilworth, Minn., man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison on federal drug and firearm charges.

NDTrooper on a Train,0087 Trooper to ride train as a 'spotter' Eds: APNewsNow. Bismarck , N.D. A North Dakota Highway Patrol trooper is serving as a "spotter" on a BNSF Railway train.

Tiffany Brooke Hammerel and Joshua Steven Vraa announce their engagement. Tiffany is the daughter of Cynde Hammerel, Sauk Rapids, and is a 2003 graduate of Sauk Rapids High School.

Minnesota lawmakers agree the whopping budget deficit they faced this legislative session was no surprise, but point fingers across the political aisle when assigning blame for lack of a budget deal.

A Dilworth man is accused in Clay County District Court of molesting two young children while they were living in a relativea s home in 2003.

A proposal before the Legislature would change a year-old law that allows school districts to raise taxes or sell bonds without voter approval to pay mounting health care costs for retirees.

Rep. Paul Marquart told fellow House-Senate tax negotiators that Jackson County, Minn., was named after territorial legislator Henry Jackson.

" Forget about the deadlines. That was the message Wednesday night from House Speaker Margaret Anderson Kelliher, DFL-Minneapolis. Legislators earlier this year set today as the deadline for House and Senate negotiators to work out differences in bills the two chambers passed to finance state programs.

Northwestern Minnesota lawmakers say a $67 million flood mitigation and relief package should pass this year, and there appears to be broad support for the plan.

Five voluntary and faith-based organizations have received more than 100,000 bottles of drinking water from the Federal Emergency Management Agency , federal and state disaster officials announced today.

Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota is calling on volunteers statewide to help flood-weary residents in Fargo-Moorhead remove over one million sandbags over the next two Saturdays, from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. on April 25 and May 2. "These folks have been through a great deal of trauma and are exhausted," said Cindy Johnson, director of Disaster Services ...

The Salvation Army is gearing up to feed volunteers in Moorhead on Saturday to help residents remove up to a million sandbags.

Sue Klabo said Minnesota hospitals like the one she leads face a oegravea circumstances if state policymakers make deep health-care budget cuts.

The Honors Choirs of Southeast Minnesota will close its regular season with a concert of spring music.

ST. PAUL a ' Minnesotans earning more than $300,000 a year would pay a higher income tax and the Job Opportunity Building Zones program would be partially dismantled under a House Democratic-Farmer-Labor tax plan.

Bullying and other types of harassment would not be tolerated in Minnesota schools under a bill senators tentatively approved Thursday.

A western Minnesota man is in serious condition after a house fire. Mike Trapp was filling a kerosene heater Wednesday when the kerosene spilled and a fire started in his home near Georgetown.

A western Minnesota man is in serious condition after a house fire. Mike Trapp was filling a kerosene heater on Wednesday when the kerosene spilled and a fire started in his home near Georgetown.

A man was seriously injured in a house fire here this afternoon, Clay County Sheriff Bill Bergquist said.

" Flood-weary Red River Valley residents should not be forced to worry about future flood-prevention funding, northwestern Minnesota representatives said Monday as they tried in vain to increase spending on permanent new dikes and other such measures.