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Fireworks displays have become an iconic symbol of the Fourth of July holiday over the years, but if it wasn't for one local man, who stepped up when many others stepped down, the skies over one local town would have stayed dark tonight.

Rochester public school students performed better than their state counterparts on this year's state standardized tests, according to numbers released today by the Minnesota Department of Education.

Some good may ultimately come from the death of Muhidin Mumin, a 42-year-old Somali man whose body was found in a downtown alley on Oct.

Flag Day at Lenora church The Rev. Mark Woodward, right, talks to people outside the historic 1856 Lenora United Methodist Church in Fillmore County after a Flag Day service on June 14.

It was about 6 p.m. Friday when security officers at Wal-Mart North in Rochester saw a man put video games and accessorcies into his shopping cart, walk to the fabric area and hide the items in a bag.

Criminal charges have been filed against a Rochester man accused of sexually touching a female detention deputy while he was in the Olmsted County jail in October.

ROCHESTER, Minn. -- Wisconsin was one out from salvaging a split of a Northwoods League doubleheader with Rochester on Tuesday.

Rochester, Minnesota, USA, June 25, 2009 - Beth Nordaune, a Rochester MN Real Estate professional, has assembled a comprehensive "Walking Tour" for her listing located at 861 37th Ave NW Unit C, Rochester, Minnesota 55901.

What goes in must come out, right? Not necessarily, at least not anymore at the Silver Lake Power Plant.

Dear Answer Man, is the Radisson in Rochester now officially the Doubletree, since the signs are changed? And what's with the cookie on all the ads for Doubletree? -- Ted Yes, it's official -- the former Radisson Plaza Hotel at 150 S. Broadway is now Doubletree Rochester Downtown, as of Wednesday.

A woman who coordinated booster club activities for the Rochester Youth Hockey Association now is accused of taking more than $36,000 of the funds for her personal use.

A warrant has been issued for the arrest of a Rochester man accused of allegedly sexually abusing a young boy over a period of years.

On Friday last week, a few days after reporting repeated acts of vandalism and harassment at the Cambodian Buddhist temple just southeast of Rochester, the Post-Bulletin wrote an editorial condemning the incidents.

Twenty-seven paraprofessionals in Rochester public schools officially lost their jobs Tuesday, another way the $9.3 million in cuts from earlier this year are taking shape.

Assault charges have been filed against a Rochester man accused of punching one man and hitting another with a beer bottle.

Rochester education officials from kindergarten classrooms to collegiate auditoriums learned the definition of "allotment" on Tuesday.

Gov. Tim Pawlenty spoke to veterans at the state VFW convention at the Mayo Civic Center on Friday, voicing support for a group he largely spared from budget cuts during the unallotment process.

Two men with advanced and inoperable prostate cancer have staged dramatic recoveries after being treated with an experimental antibody drug.

Walter S. Scanlan, 39, was driving southbound when a deer ran out of tall grass near milepost 12 and i

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