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ST. PAUL — The second life of Minnesota’s proposed special legislative session lasted just over two weeks. Gov. Mark Dayton declared a special session dead in August after the two sides were unable to agree on funding for the Southwest Light Rail line. But when Dayton ordered...

CURRIE -- Currie State Bank and the First State Bank of Okabena announce that they have entered into a definitive agreement in which First State Bank of Okabena will be merged into and become a branch of Currie State Bank pending regulatory approval. Both banks share a similar culture...

WORTHINGTON -- The Social Media Breakfast Club kick-off event Oct. 5 will help local businesses and organizations in utilizing Google Search and Google Maps. The hour-long event will start at 8 a.m. at the Hy-Vee club room. The Social Media Breakfast Club (SMBC) meets once a month...

WORTHINGTON – Registered nurse Wendy Donkersloot, the on-site health professional at Prairie Elementary, knows that keeping a student population of over 1,200 students healthy is no small task. Here is a short list of imperatives Donkersloot urges families to follow to maintain...

TEA, S.D. -- Lewis & Clark Regional Water System’s board of directors has awarded a $2,961,700 contract to Preload of Louisville, Ky., for a four-million-gallon above-ground storage reservoir that will be located six miles southwest of Luverne. Substantial completion deadline...

ST. PAUL -- A recent drive through Cheyenne, Wyo., included a familiar scene to a Minnesota Capitol insider: a Capitol building undergoing renovation. At least eight state Capitols, as well as the U.S. Capitol, are undergoing renovations or the work was completed recently. Kansas...

By Sharon Johnson, District 518 WORTHINGTON -- District 518 values communication with parents and encourages families to be engaged in the education of their own children and involved with the school system. District 518 has offered Parents Advocating for Student Success (PASS) classes...

ST. CLOUD — The envelope arrived without much fanfare, inside it the results of another DNA test from the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. Scientists there likely didn't recognize the names: Jared Scheierl and Danny Heinrich. The envelope that Stearns County Sheriff's...

ST. CLOUD — The question lingered for nearly 27 years. Investigators internalized it. Patty Wetterling repeated it hundreds, perhaps thousands, of times. Central Minnesotans discussed it over lunch, at festivals and coffee shops, during holiday weekends, longing for an answer. "Where's...

Accidents WORTHINGTON -- The Worthington Police Department investigated a hit-and-run crash reported at 3:45 a.m. Friday. WORTHINGTON -- The Worthington Police Department investigated a hit-and-run crash reported at 8:25 a.m. Friday. WORTHINGTON -- The Worthington Police Department...

Editor’s note: Former longtime Daily Globe Editor Ray Crippen died Dec. 27, 2015. We will continue to publish previously run “Isn’t That Something” columns on Saturdays, until further notice, as a tribute to Crippen and his knowledge of local and regional history. The following...

BISMARCK – The company building the Dakota Access Pipeline has purchased 20 parcels of land totaling more than 7,000 acres north of where protesters of the four-state oil pipeline are encamped on federally owned land and where the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe claims sacred sites were...

WORTHINGTON -- Bank of the West is hosting an open house event for employee Sherry Hintgen, who is retiring after a 43-year career at the bank. The event will be from 1 to 4 p.m. Thursday at the bank. Let your presence be your gift.  

WORTHINGTON -- A recent report ranks Worthington as the 46th best place in the country for law school grads to live and work, ranking it better than places such as Denver, Boston, San Antonio, Las Vegas, Indianapolis, Philadelphia, Phoenix and the Twin Cities. The report, titled...