WASHINGTON – Minnesota Sen. Tina Smith introduces a bill for a one health approach. It’s an idea that human and animal health are linked and should be studied together to prevent disease outbreaks. Smith says the Department of Agriculture has a group that has already taken a one health approach. She wants them to combine its efforts with the Centers…
MOORHEAD, Minn. –Mick’s Office is honoring Perham native and professional runner Gabe Grunewald, who passed away last week after a long fight with cancer. Mick’s has a specialty burger every week, and this week they’re doing the “Brave Like Gabe” burger. The burger is on a lettuce wrap to celebrate her healthy lifestyle. Two dollars from every burger and one…
WADENA, MN — Police in Wadena, Minnesota have released the name of a man found dead at the Wadena County Fairgrounds nearly two weeks ago. He is 54-year-old Roger Donnelly of Minneapolis. His body was found on the fairgrounds on Thursday, June 6. Police say no foul play is suspected in his death. Categories: Local News, Minnesota News Tags: Death,…
PRESTON, Minn. (AP) _ A Minnesota hemp farmer is facing charges after authorities claimed his products had more than the legal limit of the compound that makes users high. Court documents say products from Luis Hummel’s 5th Sun Gardens hemp farm in Lanesboro were sent to a lab for tests and found to have THC levels above 3 percent. The…
Friends of the Fargo food truck owner who was killed near downtown are honoring his memory with a cruise. A group gathered last Friday night in front of Kmart on University Drive for a memorial cruise in honor of Jason Halvorson. A friend says he was part of the car community. Halvorson was also well-known to food truck aficionados in…
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) _ Court officials and lawyers in North Dakota say few people have tried to undo convictions for refusing DUI blood tests in the year since a state Supreme Court opinion offered a narrow pathway for doing so. The state Supreme Court ruled that a 2016 U.S. Supreme Court decision that found it unconstitutional to criminalize refusal of…
STILLWATER, Minn. (AP) _ Authorities say an Uber driver rescued a woman who had been shot and left to die along a road in Washington County. A 23-year-old St. Paul man, suspected of being in the U.S. illegally, is charged with attempted murder and kidnapping. A criminal complaint says the Uber driver found the woman bleeding from the chest along…
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) _ A figure skating coach has pleaded guilty in Hennepin County to sexually abusing a student. Forty-eight-year-old Thomas Incantalupo, of St. Louis Park, entered the plea to two counts of criminal sexual conduct Tuesday for abusing the girl beginning when she was 14 years old in 2015 and continuing for two years. The Hennepin County Attorney’s Office says…
MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. (KFGO) – A chiropractor from Thief River Falls will spend more than two years in federal prison for wire fraud. Richard Wiseth, 36, pleaded guilty to defrauding health insurers by submitting false and fraudulent claims for chiropractic services. Prosecutors say Wiseth billed insurance companies more than three-million dollars for treatments that were not provided or overbilled from March…
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) _ A leaked email has raised new questions about how state and federal regulators handled a major permit for the planned PolyMet copper-nickel mine in northeastern Minnesota. The e-mail asks Environmental Protection Agency officials not to file written comments on the water quality permit during Minnesota’s public comment period, which kept the federal regulators’ multiple criticisms out of…
