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MINNEAPOLIS—A Red Lake man has been sentenced to five years in prison for sexual assaulting a minor in 2016. Brandon Scott Cloud, 36, was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis on Tuesday by Senior Judge Michael Davis. According to a release from U.S. Attorney Gregory Booker, Cloud was charged in July and pleaded guilty in September. http://www.be...

ST. JOSEPH, Minn. — St. Joseph residents reported that at least a dozen white nationalist posters were displayed prominently in the city on Wednesday, according to the police department. An area resident reported the signs to the police department early afternoon. St. Joseph Police Chief Joel Klein said the posters were largely found on main roadways such as Minnesota Street...

RIVERSIDE, Calif. — A California couple tortured a dozen of their children for years, starving them to the point that their growth was stunted, chaining them to their beds for up to months, preventing them from using the toilet at times and forbidding them from showering more than once a year, a prosecutor said Thursday. “The victimization appeared to intensify over...

A dog walker on Thursday spotted the body of an East Bethel man who apparently died in a snowmobile crash, investigators said. The body had been there at least overnight, according to the Anoka County sheriff’s office. https://www.twincities.com/2018/01/18/dog-walker-finds-dead-snowmobiler-in-east-bethel-police-say/...

A popular Minneapolis lake named in honor of slavery supporter and former Vice President John Calhoun will get its original American Indian name back, Minnesota officials announced Thursday. Lake Calhoun will be renamed Bde Maka Ska, the Department of Natural Resources announced. The name, which is pronounced beh-DAY’ mah-KAH’ skah and means White Earth Lake, was used by...

NEW ULM, Minn. — A south-central Minnesota county rejected the state Department of Agriculture’s offer for free nitrate well tests. Brown County rejected the program in December after residents voiced fears that the data could be used to target farmers for additional regulations, Minnesota Public Radio reported. https://www.twincities.com/2018/01/18/minn...

Vikings return specialist Marcus Sherels made sure not to throw away his shot in last Sunday’s victory over the New Orleans Saints. Sherels aggressively fielded a punt in the first quarter with not a lot of room to work, made a couple of guys miss, and raced up the right sideline for nearly 20 yards before being slammed to the turf by Saints punter Thomas Morstead, who...

WASHINGTON — A divided House on Thursday passed an eleventh-hour plan to keep the government running. But the GOP-written measure faced gloomy prospects in the Senate, and it remained unclear whether lawmakers would be able to find a way to keep federal offices open past a Friday night deadline. The House voted by a near party-line 230-197 vote to approve the legislation,...

BEMIDJI -- After an interview process that lasted more than two hours with six candidates, the Bemidji City Council selected former Mayor Richard Lehmann to represent Ward 4 for the rest of the year. Lehmann, 59, will take over the seat that was vacated when Patrick Plemel resigned in late December to run a behavioral health facility in North Dakota. Because there was less...

A collision of deadlines and politics has given rise to that most perfect, and increasingly frequent, of D.C. storms: the impending government shutdown. Current funding runs out Friday. After that, only government employees performing “essential government functions” — like the military or food inspectors — continue working. Very few employees in the Education...

The poverty, inequity, and isolation that students in rural schools must cope with are often overlooked in education research and policy discussions, according to a new report from the National School Board Association's Center for Public Education. The report argues that despite the fact that rural schools struggle with high and lows more commonly associated with urban...

Baltimore public schools' heating crisis earlier this month was a "day of reckoning" for the system, the city, and the state said public schools CEO Sonja Santelises. The crisis, she said in an interview with WYPR Wednesday, exposed the truth that Baltimore city school buildings are less than functional. As many as 85 of public schools in the city suffered heating problems...