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The checks could soon be in the mail for more than 4,400 students who received erroneous scores on the 2005 SAT college entry exams. A federal judge issued an order Friday evening granting final approval to a $2.85 million settlement announced last August in a class-action lawsuit against the not-for-profit College Board and test scoring company NCS Pearson Inc. District Judge Joan Ericksen …

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WINONA, Minn. The president of the Winona State University student senate has died after being hospitalized with a sudden onset illness, the university said Friday. Jered Paul Stene, 22, of Woodbury, died Thursday night at a Minneapolis hospital, the university said. Stene was a junior majoring in political science and public administration with a minor in mass communication. He had been student …

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A Red Wing man who held the winning ticket for the Nov. 21 Hot Lotto drawing has claimed his prize, choosing the $4.4 million cash option, the Minnesota State Lottery announced Friday. After tax withholding, Jerome Cody will receive $3,025,867, lottery officials said in a news release. Cody purchased his ticket at Freedom Valu Center in Red Wing. He said he stops at the store twice weekly to …

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An Olmsted County judge has set bail at one million dollars for a Rochester man charged with killing another man on Thanksgiving.

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A jury on Friday found a 25-year-old man guilty of killing a college student.

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Minutes make a difference when a child is missing. Now there’s a new way law enforcement can get out the warning about a missing child to thousands of people.

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Friday no snow, just cold.The wind chill was in the single digits, but that didn’t stop the work and it didn’t stop the

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Phoenix Coyotes coach Wayne Gretzky likes what he sees from the Chicago Blackhawks dynamic duo of Patrick Kane and Jonathan Toews. “They love to play, and they love to compete,” Gretzky told the Chicago Tribune.

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The Federal Aviation Administration has signed off on the $126 million airport noise settlement that will provide sound-dampening help to more than 9,000 homes in Minneapolis, Richfield and Eagan. In a letter released Friday, the agency said the settlement is an allowable use of airport revenue and doesn’t run afoul of the airport’s federal obligations. That hurdle is one of two that the …

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The Federal Aviation Administration has signed off on the $126 million airport noise settlement that will provide sound-dampening help to more than 9,000 homes in Minneapolis, Richfield and Eagan. In a letter released Friday, the agency said the settlement is an allowable use of airport revenue and doesnt run afoul of the airports federal obligations. That hurdle is one of two the settlement …

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Heavy snow and flying often don’t mix. In a move to get ahead of the anticipated winter weather arriving this weekend, Northwest Airlines is

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With the season’s first wintry blast taking aim at southern Minnesota and western Wisconsin, forecasters today posted a winter storm warning for Saturday and Saturday night.

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The Mississippi River lock and dam just north of here will close on Saturday, ending the commercial shipping season.

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Blaine Police Chief Dave Johnson will lead a state initiative designed to help law enforcement and criminal justice agencies share information electronically. Johnson will take over as executive director of CriMNet in January, replacing Dale Good who is retiring and will take a part-time position with the administrative office of the California Judicial Council, said Michael Campion, …

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