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A day after being trapped chest deep in a grain bin, Mark Malecha is knee deep in trouble with his employer and OSHA.

A quote attributed to Tenzu Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, reads: "If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.

15, 1910: H.T. Budd was thrown from a railroad track by a Rock Island passenger train.

Merwyn a oeBuda Luverne Zabel, age 88, of Faribault, died Thursday, Jan. 7, 2010, at District One Hospital in Faribault, following a brief illness.

Sheila N. Currer 1924 - 2010 OWATONNA - Sheila N. Currer, 85, of Owatonna died Monday, Jan.

Editor's Note: Ben Mirin is a Carleton College student journalist who wrote last term for Pressville.org, an online newspaper the class created.

KENYON -- Elizabeth Alice Malloy, 85, of Kenyon, died Thursday, Dec. 10, 2009, at Saint Marys Hospital in Rochester.

Shoppers could soon see Malt-O-Meal in places other than the cereal aisle. A new partnership between the city's largest employer and New Jersey-based TerraCycle will pay schools and community groups for empty MOM cereal bags, keeping them from the landfill, using them instead to make other products.

The Rice County Historical Society's 2009 Fall Banquet/Annual Meeting will be held Thursday, Oct.

Fed up with the stock market? Sick of greedy megabanks and Wall Street bailouts? Then take your money and invest in what you eat.

Tractor enthusiasts braved the cold, rainy weather to view the late Palmer Fossum's vintage Ford and Fordson collection.

Leaves are just beginning to fall and there's a crisp edge in the air: Fall is just around the corner.

Big crowds, big bananas and a big headache marked the 2009 Minnesota State Fair, which wrapped up a record-breaking 12-day run on Labor Day.

Cafeteria workers at Northfield Middle School prepare lunch Tuesday for the first day of school.