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NEWS
–The City of Brainerd will help Crow Wing County with providing security to the Brainerd Lakes Regional Airport. The county board agreed to pay $12,000 annually to the city for security for all incoming and outgoing commerical flights at the airport by use of the Brainerd Police Department.
–A Baxter home day care has had it operating license reinstated by the state of Minnesota following an investigation. In October, the license of Kimberly Opay was suspended after an infant was found unresponsive in the home and later died. Opay appealed the suspension and after an autopsy, results found that the infant died from congestive heart failure and that the day care was not to blame.
–Six conservation officers with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources were honored at Camp Ripley on Tuesday, February 2nd for outstanding performance and service in 2015. The DNR named Conservation Officer Jeff Johanson of Osakis Officer of the Year. This prestigious award is presented annually to an officer based upon overall career performance with emphasis on the officer’s previous job evaluation period. Also honored was Conservation Officer Chad Thesing of Albany who earned the Boat and Water Safety Achievement Award. That honor is based on demonstrated leadership abilities and outstanding achievements in boating safety education, boating while intoxicated enforcement, and service to other law enforcement agencies. The DNR’s Enforcement Division employs about 186 licensed peace officers responsible for recreational law enforcement and protecting the natural resources of Minnesota. The division has its headquarters in St. Paul where it operates 18 law enforcement districts throughout the state.
–The sled dog races at Camp Ripley have been cancelled this weekend but if you want to see sled dog races there will be races in Outing for the 28th year on Saturday. The race, in the communities of Emily, Outing and Remer through Crow Wing and Cass County begins at noon Saturday. The six dog and eight dog teams will make the run. For more information go to the website midmn150.com.
–Lakin Township announced they have moved their regular monthly meeting and board of audit meeting to February 25th it was scheduled for yesterday but postponed until the 25th.
–U.S. 8th District Congressman Rick Nolan will hold roundtables open to the public to hear ideas and thoughts from constituents about how to preserve and protect Social Security and Medicare, as well as to provide an update on the current state of the programs. Congressman Nolan will have one of these roundtable discussions from 1:00-2:30pm this coming Wednesday at the Morrison County Government Center. He will have another discussion from 4:00-5:30 later that day at the Brainerd Lakes Area Senior Activity Center and will be in Wadena, Park Rapids and Walker for discussions Thursday.
–Around 3,500 Stearns Electric customers lost power for around an hour early Thursday morning. The outage, which Stearns Electric called an “unplanned transmission line outage,” affected users in the St. Joseph and Sartell areas beginning around 2:30am. Stearns Electric said a cause of the outage has not yet been determined, but that the power was restored in the affected areas.
–Weekend events include a Valentines weekend concert with laser light show at 8pm tonight and Saturday at Great River Arts. For info call 632-0960. Tickets can purchased at the door. There is also a pork chop dinner Sunday at Our Lady of Lourdes, a Prime Rib/Chicken dinner Saturday night at St. Rita’s in Hillman and a quilt bingo Sunday in Sobieski. For more details go to fallsradio.com.
–Police arrested a St. Cloud woman whom they say led them on a 3.5 mile-long pursuit that lasted about five minutes and at times reached speeds up to 60 miles per hour. About 11:40am the incident started near the University Bridge and continued into Waite Park, where the suspect was taken into custody without incident. The driver was identified as 27-year old Lisa Jean Hamre. She was taken into custody on possible charges of fleeing a peace officer in a motor vehicle. Due to her erratic driving, police brought her to St. Cloud Hospital for an evaluation before taking her to Stearns County Jail.
–A Fargo police officer has died after being shot during a standoff overnight Wednesday into Thursday. Officer Jason Moszer was rushed to the hospital in critical condition after responding to a domestic disturbance with reported gunfire at a home on the 300 block of 9th Avenue North in Fargo. He died at 12:45pm Thursday. The man suspected in the officer’s shooting is dead, but authorities not specify if he was shot by snipers or if he committed suicide. The suspect was identified as 49-year-old Marcus Schumacher of Fargo.
NATIONAL NEWS
–The U.S. Senate Thursday passed legislation placing a permanent ban on states’ taxing Internet access, sending the measure to President Barack Obama for signing into law. By a vote of 75-20, the Senate gave final approval to a bill toughening enforcement of U.S. duties on foreign goods, which contains the permanent extension of the Internet Tax Freedom Act. The measure also would ban some taxes on digital goods and services and will put an end to a series of temporary extensions on the tax prohibitions. The legislation, however, fails to address calls for better enforcement of state sales tax collections related to Internet purchases, something that brick-and-mortar businesses have long sought. Separate legislation on this could be considered by Congress later this year. Most states have imposed sales taxes on online purchases, but the collection is spotty.
DEATH NOTICE
–Randy Skeesick, age 65 of Motley
WEATHER
TODAY= sunny, falling temps to 0, wind chills near -20 afternoon.
TONIGHT= clear and very cold, low -20, wind chills near -30.
SATURDAY= sunny and cold, high 5 above, low 2 snow overnight.
SUNDAY= snow likely 2-6 inches possible, high 20, low 14.
MONDAY= cloudy and warmer high 32, low 15.
SPORTS
WRE= section wrestling tonight for Pierz begins at 6pm, coverage starting around 5:30 on FM94 KFML then on Saturday section wrestling begins for Little Falls around 12:30pm, coverage shortly after noon Saturday on Q92 WYRQ.
HS GBB= Little Falls at Albany tonight 7:30pm on Q92 WYRQ.
COL HK= Gophers at Ohio State Saturday 5:30pm on KLTF.
COL BBB= Gopher men vs. Iowa Sunday 6pm on AM960 KLTF.
TODAY IN HISTORY
IN 1809= Abraham Lincoln is born in Kentucky, his family would move to Indiana and then to Illinois. Lincoln would become the 16th President of the United States in 1860.
IN 1924= Calvin Coolidge made first Presidential speech on Radio.
IN 1955= The McGuire Sisters had the top song with Sincerely.
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