All-American Stefan Logan rushed 16 times for 149 yards and three touchdowns to lead the University of South Dakota past Western Washington 42-10 in North Central Conference football Saturday in Bellingham, Wash. With the win, USD (6-1, 4-0 NCC), ranked 14th in NCAA Division II, moved into a tie with Nebraska-Omaha for first place in the NCC. UNO defeated North Dakota 21-20 Saturday. The Coyotes
A state-employed safety inspector in northern Minnesota says his supervisors changed, ignored and destroyed his investigative findings to protect large corporations. In a whistle-blower retaliation lawsuit filed Friday in Ramsey County, Terrence K. Swanson, 51, of Babbitt, seeks damages in excess of $50,000 from the state. He has worked for the Department of Labor and Industry's Occupational
DULUTH - At 72, Democratic Rep. Jim Oberstar is riding his bicycle 2,700 miles a year, or about 225 miles a month. "I've done more than 2,000 miles a year for the last seven years, and my blood pressure shows it," said Oberstar, reaching into his wallet for a slip of paper that shows his blood pressure from a physical last year: 120 over 70. As he seeks a 17th term, unprecedented in Minnesota,
Duluth's Cirrus Design Corporation finds itself in the media spotlight - but not under circumstances they would have chosen. It was a Cirrus SR-20 airplane built in Duluth that crashed Wednesday into a New York high rise. Now, Cirrus officials were overwhelmed with the aftermath.
Charged with fostering diversity efforts at all levels of the University, Rusty Barceló is part of an administration in which diversity is in its infancy.
Minnesota's 8th District state Senate seat is up for grabs this year, after DFL Sen. Becky Lourey ran unsuccessfully for Governor. Her son Tony, of Kerrick, has stepped in as the DFL candidate. But he's not the only well known name in the race. Republican Dan Stevens of Mora served 10 years in the Minnesota Senate.
There were comments on Local Government Aid cuts and health care fees and higher education costs going higher for consecutive years at a double-digit rate and job and K-12 losses.
DULUTH - Jennifer Randa didn't need to see the official numbers released this month by the Duluth Police Department: crime up nearly 20 percent from 2004 to 2005, with drug crime more than doubling and violent crimes up by 32 percent. From the Union Gospel Mission, where she helps provide meals and clothing to the homeless, Randa monitors the daily fist fights and street prostitution, the
University of Wisconsin lecturer Kevin Barrett again used the UW campus as a platform to express his view that the U.S. government was behind the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks Thursday. Barrett, for the second time this week, shared the stage with University of Minnesota-Duluth professor James Fetzer, a fellow member of Scholars for 9/11 Truth. Thursday’s event, held on the...
