ONE PERSON DIED AFTER A FIRE AT NORTHERNAIRE HOUSEBOATS ON RAINY LAKE ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT. 85-YEAR OLD LAVONNE HERSHBERGER WAS INSIDE THE MAIN PORTION OF THE HOME. HER 51-YEAR OLD DAUGHTER VONNETTE MILLS NEEDED TO AIRLIFTED AND WAS IN CRITICAL CONDITION AFTER SHE ATTEMPTED TO REACH HER MOTHER. A 12 YEAR OLD GIRL AND TWO FIREFIGHTERS REQUIRED MEDICAL ATTENTION ALSO.
A REPORT SAYS MINNESOTA SCHOOL READING SCORES HAVE DROPPED AND FEWER THAN 50% ARE PROFICIENT IN MATH AND SCIENCE.
AN IRON RANGE BUS DRIVER IS FACING CHARGES AFTER HE ALLEGEDLY DROVE 35 CHILDREN TO A SUMMER CAMP WHILE INTOXICATED. REPORTS SHOW THAT PATRICK DAVID BULLARD WAS STOPPED ALONG I-35 IN CARLTON COUNTY AND HAD A BLOOD ALCOHOL CONTENT NEARLY THREE TIMES THE LEGAL LIMIT. EVERYONE EVENTUALLY ARRIVED SAFELY AT CAMP.
31-YEAR OLD ANDERS ODEGAARD IS CHARGED WITH THE MURDER OF HIS EX-WIFE CARISSA ODEGAARD IN WARREN ON TUESDAY. AUTHORITIES WERE CALLED FOR AN ONGOING DOMESTIC DISTURBANCE AND FOUND THE WOMAN BLEEDING AND NOT BREATHING. ANDERS WAS ON SITE AND TOLD OFFICERS HE “DIDN’T FEEL RIGHT” WHEN ASKED WHAT WAS HAPPENING. THE COUPLE HAS FIVE CHILDREN, THREE OF THEM WITNESSED THE ATTACK THAT HAPPENED WHEN THE MOTHER CAME TO PICK THE CHILDREN UP FROM THE FATHERS HOME. IF CONVICTED, HE COULD FACE UP TO 40 YEARS IN PRISON.
THE 2023 EDITION OF THE OLD FARMER’S ALMANAC IS RELEASED NEXT WEEK AND THEY DESCRIBE THIS WINTER AS “A TALE OF TWO WINTER”. THE WESTERN HALF OF THE UNITED STATES SHOULD SEE A MIILD WINTER THAT SEES MORE RAIN AND ABOVE AVERAGE TEMPS, WHILE THE MIDWEST AND EAST COAST WILL SEE A WINTER THEY DESCRIBE AS “SHIVERY AND SNOWY”.
A MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR ALICE ANDERSON OF ROSEAU WILL BE HELD THIS SATURDAY (11 AM) AT RIVERSIDE LUTHERAN CHURCH IN WANNASKA. INTERMENT WILL TAKE PLACE AT MICKINOCK CEMETERY IN WANNASKA. ALICE ANDERSON WAS 95.
A MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR NOLAN KJOS WILL BE HELD THIS SUNDAY (3 PM) AT HELGESON FUNERAL HOME IN ROSEAU. NOLAN WAS 62.
A MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR CHARLOTTE KOEHMSTEDT OF STRATHCONA WILL BE HELD TOMORROW (10:30 AM) AT ST JOSEPH’S CATHOLIC CHURCH IN MIDDLE RIVER. CHARLOTTE PASSED AWAY MONDAY AT THE AGE OF 74.
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