Walker News

Governor Tim Pawlenty has ordered that all U.S. flags and Minnesota flags be flown at half-staff at all state and federal buildings in the State of Minnesota, from sunrise until sunset on Tuesday, October 20, 2009, in honor and remembrance of Specialist George W. Cauley.

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The Department of Defense has identified 865 American service members who have died as a part of the Afghan war and related operations.

A Soldier from Walker, Minnesota has died in the line of Duty. The Minnesota Guard says Specialist George.

The Department of Defense announced yesterday the death of a Minnesota National Guard Soldier supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.

24-year-old National Guard Specialist George Cauley of Walker's former high school principal Joseph Akre of Remer describes him as a very patriotic and very pleasant young man to be around.

Two Minnesota families are mourning the loss of two men killed last week fighting for Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan.

Of those, the military reports 612 were killed by hostile action. Outside the Afghan region, the Defense Department reports 72 more members of the U.S. military died in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.

The Defense Department has announced the death of a soldier from Walker, Minn., in Afghanistan.

Walker will be getting a Matty's restaurant. Owner Matt Walsh, who has a Matty's in Brainerd and Lake Shore, is opening a restaurant in downtown Walker in November.

Susan R. Miles, a district court judge in Washington County, has been elected president of the Minnesota District Judges Association.

The Archdiocese is embarking on a realignment in which nothing is off limits to change.

A former 8th-grade science teacher with a part-time gig at a sporting goods store in Walker apparently swiped some guns and sold them on eBay.

In late May 2008, one of the owners of Reed's Family Outdoor Outfitters in Walker, Minn., noticed that items from its stores were showing up for sale, cheap, on the online auction site eBay, usually with the store's price stickers still attached.

Is "free" a cheap enough massage? Student clinics offer free and low-priced rubdowns to relax the physically or financially stressed.

Back by popular demand, KARE 11 has collected some ideas for cheap date nights -- with at least one suggestion for each weeknight.

Ongoing: The air is crisp, and so are the apples that are ripe for the picking at Emma Krumbee's Apple Orchard.

NEW YORK - Merce Cunningham, the avant-garde dancer and choreographer who revolutionized modern dance by creating works of pure movement divorced from storytelling and even from their musical accompaniment, has died at age 90, a spokeswoman said today.

A Minneapolis man is dead after a head-on collision in Cass County Tuesday. The incident happened shortly after 4 p.m. on Highway 371 about seven miles north of Walker.

Senate District 4 state legislators Thursday gave their perspectives of this year's legislative session to the Cass County Economic Development Corp.