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(Maria Alejandra Cardona/Minnesota Public Radio via AP, File). FILE - In this Thursday, July 20, 2017 file photo, Minneapolis police chief Janee Harteau, center, stands with police inspector Michael Kjos, left, and assistant chief Medaria Arradondo...

crash_300x200-300x1991 ROCKFORD – Two drivers are hospitalized after a head-on collision in Wright County. The Minnesota State Patrol says it happened at about 6:45 a.m. Tuesday on Highway 55 near Rockford . A vehicle driven by 35-year-old...

Rockford Register Star The most recent police-involved shooting has an interesting twist that shows the hypocrisy of how black lives seem not to matter as much as white ones. Mohamed Noor, a Somali-born Minneapolis police officer, shot and killed Justine...

Stillman Valley's Andrew Wilhite, who has been pitching with both arms for seven years, signed to play baseball as an infielder for the Minnesota Gophers. He will be a senior at ... 1 seed and BNC champion Rockford Christian. He also batted .432 with...

(Maria Alejandra Cardona/Minnesota Public Radio via AP). Minneapolis police chief Janee Harteau, center, stands with police inspector Michael Kjos, left, and assistant chief Medaria Arradondo during a news conference Thursday, July 20, 2017,...

Minnesota is home to the largest Somali community in the United States, roughly 57,000 people according to the latest census figures, most of whom live in the Minneapolis area. The immigrants have been coming to Minnesota from their war-torn...

WREX-TV (Glen Stubbe/Star Tribune via AP). In this Feb. 16, 2017 photo, Burnsville Police Sgt. Chris Wicklund turns his his body camera off after completing a call in Burnsville, Minn. When a Minneapolis police officer shot and killed Justine Damond, who...

Rockford Register Star This undated photo provided by Stephen Govel/www.stephengovel.com shows Justine Damond, of Sydney, Australia, who was fatally shot by police in Minneapolis on Saturday, July 15, 2017. Authorities say that officers were responding...

WREX-TV CHICAGO (AP) -- Federal records show former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert has been released from prison in Minnesota and transferred to a Chicago re-entry facility. Hastert is nearing the end of a 15-month sentence that a federal judge gave...

Normandale Community College in Bloomington, Minnesota : Nathan Nichols of Rockton. University of Dubuque in Dubuque, Iowa: Brandt Kuntze of Rockford ; Tayler Burns of Pecatonica; and Kasandra Benson, Dalton Garst and Lydia West of Winnebago.
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