Daily Globe

APPLETON — Pioneer Public Television is celebrating its 49th year of broadcast operation with a Community Pride Membership Drive, which begins today and continues through March 18. Pioneer has a goal of raising $60,000 during the course of the drive in the form of new and renewing...

  ST. PAUL — Speed limits on some northern and western Minnesota highways will be getting an increase, the Minnesota Department of Transportation says. About 340 miles of two-lane highways will increase from 55 mph to 60 mph. The changes come as part of a 2014 legislative...

WILLMAR — Minnesota’s state college system has said it supports Ridgewater College President Douglas Allen. Allen came under fire at the end of the week when the community college’s faculty passed a vote of no confidence in his leadership Thursday evening. According to Sam...

Accidents WORTHINGTON — The Worthington Police Department investigated a hit-and-run crash reported at 2:38 p.m. Thursday from the 1500 block of Collegeway. WORTHINGTON — The Worthington Police Department investigated a crash reported at 5:02 p.m. Thursday from Hy-Vee. WORTHINGTON...

BISMARCK, N.D. — GasBuddy predicts large price increases at the pump in the next two to three weeks. “Just since Monday, Feb. 2, wholesale prices nationwide have increased by an average of 54 cents per gallon,” Patrick DeHaan, senior petroleum analyst for GasBuddy, said. “Wholesale...

By JOHN LANDGAARD, District 518 WORTHINGTON — The education article for this week is to address the high school addition that will provide five new classrooms, a band room, some minor remodeling and safety upgrades. But before I start to address the high school addition,...

WORTHINGTON — The first farmers among us — This was when the most impatient of the first farmers among us might walk out on the fields of their homesteads — about this time of year, about the beginning of March — perhaps with a pitch fork. They began scratching the ground,...

DAILY GLOBE The highest seeds went 2-2 in first-round Section 3AA girls basketball play Friday night. Martin County West, seeded No. 2 in the south, bested seventh-seeded Luverne 45-28. And third-seeded Blue Earth Area topped sixth-seeded Windom Area 48-43. But fifth-seeded Jackson...

DAILY GLOBE DES MOINES, Iowa — Minnesota West wrestlers Matt Henning and Chevy Farris were eliminated Friday in the NJCAA national wrestling tournament. Henning went 0-2 at 125 pounds. Both of the wrestlers who beat him will compete today in the championship round of the tournament. Farris...

  ST. PAUL — Logan Axford was so out of breath when he was approached by numerous reporters Friday night that he could hardly answer their questions. There was a reason he was a man in demand, and also an explanation for why he was huffing and puffing well after his Class...

  ST. PAUL — Wyatt Stevens hadn’t been to overtime all season. Even without recent experience in wrestling beyond the usual six minutes, the Windom/Mountain Lake senior had enough in the tank to pull out a 3-2 victory in the Class A Individual State Wrestling quarterfinals...

WASHINGTON — The most striking thing about interviewing Rula Ghani, the first lady of Afghanistan, may be that the interview is taking place at all. Consider: Zeenat Karzai, the physician wife of former Afghan President Hamid Karzai, was rarely seen in public during her husband’s...

DAILY GLOBE COON RAPIDS — The Minnesota West Bluejays controlled one dangerous player but couldn’t control the other Friday night. The result was a 95-82 loss to Central Lakes in the first round of the Minnesota College Athletic Conference (MCAC) tournament. Alex Koch led...