McGrath News

Elvera Lucille Modrow, 88, of Willow River, died Wednesday, November 25, 2009 in Mercy Health Care Center, Moose Lake.

As the U.S. House prepares to debate health reform legislation, members of the Minnesota Congressional delegation are hearing stories from their constituents who have been financially and emotionally devastated by the lack of affordable health care.

Democrat Al Franken, Minnesota's junior senator, displays the enthusiasm of a younger brother when it comes to rooting for a public health care option being weighed by Congress.

Mike Coolidge & Jason & Ryan of St. Francis visited Aunt Carol Simonson. On Sun.

A victim-advocacy group chastised the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis Thursday for lack of action after a 2007 sex-abuse lawsuit was filed against a man who allegedly molested a school boy while posing as a deacon.

Republicans in this decade have claimed to be the party of choice among "values voters" -- so much so that annual national summit meeting by that name last month in Washington was a must-stop among GOP presidential hopefuls, including Gov.

Heartland Concerts launches its fall/winter series at 8 p.m. Saturday with Bat McGrath making the drive from Nashville for his return to the western New York scene that he and Don Potter once dominated.

Chris Dewey, a four-year veteran of the Mahnomen County Sheriff's Department who was shot in the line of duty, was recently awarded two prestigious medals in honor of his service.

Darlene Joyce Frehse, 68, of Finlayson, died Saturday, July 18, 2009 at her home.

I didn't know my Aunt Laura McGrath of Albia is hanging on the wall of the Wapello County Historical Museum, 210 W. Main St.

The Cathedral of Saint Paul is illuminated Wednesday and Thursday nights to commemorate the church's 100th anniversary in Saint Paul Wednesday, May 30, 2007.

A Minnesota group claims they've uncovered thousands of votes that were registered in deceased people's names and say the Secretary of State left them on the voting rolls.

Doreen Pince & Nicole & David Pince & Josh of Brooklyn Center spent the weekend at the parental Doris Pince home.

The director of the group Minnesota Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests called Friday for disciplinary action against the principal of Cretin-Derham Hall High School for releasing the name of a former student who filed a lawsuit alleging sexual abuse by a teacher in the 1970s.