LITTLE FALLS, Minn. (AP) A Little Falls man charged with murdering two teenagers who apparently broke into his home on Thanksgiving Day had a job that involved overseeing technical security issues for U.S. embassies. Byron Smith was a security engineer for the U.S. Department of State. He retired six years ago. Retired State Department political […]

BRAINERD, Minn. (AP) – The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency is giving a mixed report on the Mississippi River watershed in the St. Cloud area. The Mississippi River-St. Cloud watershed includes all or parts of seven counties. More than 70 river and stream sites and 69 lakes were sampled for the report. The Mississippi itself there […]

On Saturday, December 15, a wine tasting fundraiser will take place at Linden Hill in Little Falls. The event will be hosted by the Little Falls Sister City Committee, and the money raised will help to host 25 residents of Le Bourget, France, when they return in three years for a cultural exchange. The event […]

According to the St. Cloud Fire Department, a house fire that killed a St. Cloud man on Saturday, November 24th has officially been ruled as accidental in nature and the investigation is closed. The fire happened at 520 8th Avenue South. The fire had started in the kitchen and extended throughout the walls, ceilings, and […]

Nationally successful singer and hometown star Bobby Vee has announced his first ever art exhibit. For the first time Vee is displaying his paintings at the Satellite Gallery in St. Joseph. Vee’s son Jeff Vee says his father has been painting as a hobby off and on for many years. Vee’s paintings will be on […]

St. Cloud State University enrollment dropped 774 students from last year according to a Minnesota State Colleges and Universities report on Wednesday. The current student enrollment is 16,457. Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at SCSU, Devinder Maholtra says economic hardships, decreased funding opportunities, and students wanting to stay closer to home are some […]

The Women’s Action and the Women’s Center will be holding auditions for the 2013 performance of The Vagina Monologues. 2013 marks the 15th Anniversary of the V-Day campaign and the 13th year of the performance at SCSU. Auditions will be held on Monday, December 5 at 7:45 p.m., Thursday, December 6 at 5 p.m. and […]

The GREAT Children’s Theatre continues their Fifteenth season with the hilarious holiday children’s play “Junie B. Jones in Jingle Bells, Batman Smells”. When Junie B. Jones’ is center stage, she knows it all. Christmas means you get presents and elf costumes are awesome. But this first grader is having a touch Christmas, when she draws […]

St. Cloud State University and two other Minnesota schools have been awarded the Higher Education Excellence in Diversity award from the publisher of Insight into Diversity magazine Lenore Pearlstein. St. Cloud State University received the award for its ongoing effort to include all aspects of diversity such as gender, race, ethnicity, veterans, people with disabilities […]

Registration for the 2013 St. Cloud Polar Plunge is now open. The polar plunge is presented by Minnesota law enforcement to benefit Special Olympics Minnesota. Participants will take the plunge into icy-cold Pleasant Lake in St. Cloud Feb. 16th. People who want to participate have to register online at plungemn.org, and then check-in the day […]