BROOKLYN PARK, Minn. (AP) — A motionless squirrel apparently stunned by a passing car has been revived by the driver who performed chest compressions beside a Minnesota road. Police officers on patrol in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Park thought the man might be performing CPR. In police video posted to the department Facebook page, the man […]
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Lynx star, Minnesota legend: Whalen to retire from WNBA
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — When Lindsay Whalen retires from the WNBA at the end of this season, the gritty Minnesota Lynx point guard won’t have trouble figuring out what to do next. She’s already started the next stage, after all, as the head coach at her alma mater. Even before she was hired in the spring […]
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Video: Exhaust-ing ordeal: Woman gets head stuck in tailpipe
WINSTED, Minn. (AP) — A young woman endured an exhaust-ing ordeal when she got her head stuck in a truck’s oversized tailpipe at a Minnesota music festival. Firefighters used a power saw to free the woman from her predicament at last weekend’s Winstock Music Festival in Winsted, about 40 miles west of Minneapolis. Video of […]
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Minnesota mall stabbing could be realization of terror fears
ST. CLOUD, Minn. — Authorities are investigating the stabbings of nine people at a Minnesota mall as a potential act of terrorism, a finding that would realize long-held fears of an attack in the immigrant-rich state that has struggled to stop the recruiting of its young men by groups including the Islamic State. A young […]
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TV station reports live during Minnesota bank robbery attempt
ROCHESTER, Minn — An Iowa television station was doing a live update on a Minnesota bank robbery when police say the suspect returned to rob it a second time. KIMT-TV of Mason City, Iowa, was outside Sterling State Bank in Rochester on Tuesday when a bank employee ran out and pointed out the robbery suspect. […]
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Minnesota man pleads guilty to misdemeanor for late-night mugging
AUBURN — A Minnesota man who has been behind bars for more than six months is expected to be able to go home, possibly by the end of the year, after pleading guilty Monday to a misdemeanor assault charge in connection with a late-night mugging on Park Street. Fernando Novas de la Cruz, 24, of […]
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Brady lawsuit transferred to N.Y. court
NEW YORK (AP) — Tom Brady’s lawsuit against the NFL in which he wants his four-game suspension overturned will be heard in New York instead of Minnesota. Brady and the players’ union filed their suit Wednesday in Minnesota. But the NFL already had filed papers Tuesday in New York, moments after announcing that Commissioner Roger […]
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Carol Bean Tate
1955 – 2015 LAURINBURG, N.C. — Carol Bean Tate, 59, finished her course in faith on Monday, May 4. Carol was born Sept. 10, 1955, in Waltham, Mass., a daughter of the late Faye Dorothea Harriman Bean. She grew up in South Paris. As a teaching assistant at Fort Bragg, N.C., in 1977, she met […]
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Jacques ‘Jocko’ Dumoulin
1939 – 2015 RUMFORD — Jacques “Jocko” Dumoulin, 75, of Port Charlotte, Fla., died Wednesday, April 15, in Rumford. He was born in Lewiston on Oct. 8, 1939, the son of Armand and Marie (Gaudreau) Dumoulin. He graduated from Stephens High School in Rumford in 1957 and married his high school sweetheart, Shirley Rand, in […]
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Phair receives Family Consumer Education Teacher of the Year
DIXFIELD — Dirigo High School’s longtime teacher, Karen Phair, has been chosen as the state’s Family and Consumer Science Education Teacher of the Year. Phair, who has taught the subject taken by all seniors, as well as some students from other classes, for 29 years, was completely surprised by the honor. She was nominated by […]