SEVERAL AGENCIES RESPONDED YESTERDAY MORNING, INCLUDING THE US BORDER PATROL, TO A REPORT OF NINE INDIVIDUALS SUFFERING FROM EXPOSURE TO HARSH WEATHER CONDITIONS IN THE LOST RIVER STATE FOREST, BETWEEN ROSEAU AND WARROAD. IT WAS DETERMINED THAT SEVEN OF THOSE NINE HAD CROSSED BY BORDER ILLEGALLY AND DIDN’T HAVE ANY LEGAL DOCUMENTATION PERMITTING THEIR PRESENCE IN THE U.S. THEY WERE TRANSPORTED AND TREATED AT LOCAL MEDICAL FACILITIES AND THEN BACK TO A US BORDER PATROL STATION. THE INVESTIGATION IS ONGOING.
GOVERNOR TIM WALZ WILL DELIVER HIS STATE OF THE STATE ADDRESS TODAY.
AN EAST GRAND FORKS MAN WHO ATTEMPTED TO SHOOT A SQUIRREL, BUT MISSED, HITTING HIS NEIGHBORS HOUSE INSTEAD, PLEADED GUILTY TO A FELONY OF DISCHARGING A FIREARM WITHIN CITY LIMITS AND ALSO A MISDEMEANOR. 76-YEAR OLD MICHAEL JAMES POWERS HAS NOW BEEN GIVEN AN ADJUDICATION ON THAT FELONY, MEANING IF HE COMPLETES FOUR YEARS OF UNSUPERVISED PROBATION THAT FELONY WILL NOT APPEAR ON HIS RECORD. PART OF HIS PROBATION IS NO USE OR POSSESSION OF FIREARMS, AMMUNITION OR EXPLOSIVES.
THE MINNESOTA DNR HAS SET A FIVE-WALLEYE LIMIT FOR THE SUMMER ON UPPER RED LAKE. ANGLERS WERE ONLY ALLOWED THREE WALLEYE DURING THE WINTER SEASON, AND LAST YEARS SUMMER SEASON LIMIT WAS SET AT FOUR. THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE HAS ANNOUNCED THAT AGRICULTURAL PRODUCERS AND PRIVATE LANDOWNERS CAN BEGIN SIGNING UP FOR TH GRASSLAND CONSERVATION RESERVE PROGRAM NOW THROUGH MAY 26.
THE FUNERAL FOR POPE COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPUTY JOSH OWEN IS SET FOR SATURDAY IN GLENWOOD. HE WAS SHOT AND KILLED SATURDAY IN THE LINE OF DUTY. GOVERNOR WALZ HAS ORDER FLAGS TO BE FLOWN AT HALF STAFF AT ALL STATE BUILDINGS ON SATURDAY IN HIS HONOR.
NEARLY ONE MONTH AFTER 80 TONS OF SNOW FELL INTO THE MILLER HILL MALL IN DULUTH WHEN A ROOF COLLAPSED, SOME BUSINESSES REMAIN CLOSED AND LEAKING REMAINS. DURING THEIR INDEPENDENT WALK THROUGH, THE DULUTH NEWS TRIBUNE NOTED 15 LOCATIONS WHERE BUCKETS AND WET FLOOR SIGNS WERE NEEDED TO HIGHLIGHT AREAS WHERE LEAKING WAS CAUSING A PROBLEM. ONE EMPLOYEE SAYS BUSINESS SEEMS SLOW SINCE THEY’VE REOPENED, AND PEOPLE SEEM HESITANT TO RETURN TO THE MALL.
A MASS OF CHRISTIAN BURIAL FOR JOE BIONDI OF WARROAD WILL BE HELD THIS SATURDAY (11 AM) AT ST MARY’S CATHOLIC CHURCH IN WARROAD. VISITATION WILL BE FRIDAY EVENING (5-7 PM) ALSO AT THE CHURCH, WITH A PRAYER SERVICE AT 7:00. VISITATION WILL ALSO BE AN HOUR PRIOR ON SATURDAY. JOE PASSED AWAY AT THE AGE OF 78.
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