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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Fraud investigators say an organized crime ring operating in the Twin Cities could be involved in up to 40 percent of the area's fraudulent check activity. Federal and state authorities are working to unravel the sophisticated fraud ring that steals identities, raids bank and credit card accounts and defrauds businesses and banks nationwide.
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A state lawmaker from Columbia Heights wants to give families more power to choose funeral practices for a deceased loved one. Representative Carolyn Laine's bill removes the requirement that a corpse be embalmed. It would allow families to display a body in their home while preserved on dry ice.
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — House and Senate committees consider a compromise today on legislation that preserves a government health plan for poor adults. The agreement revolves around giving some hospitals lump-sum payments to cover care for the affected patients — including many who are homeless, veterans, mentally ill or addicted to drugs or alcohol.
CHISHOLM, Minn. (AP) — The mayor of Chisholm says the man who smashed a chair over the head of a gunman who opened fire in a bar is a true hero. Ryan Simonson says his actions seem surreal. The shooting Saturday night left one man dead and another critically injured.
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| South Dakota News |
RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — A Rapid City woman who pleaded guilty to taking her two children to the United Arab Emirates for two weeks without their father's consent has been sentenced to serve about six months in jail. Amber Solay was accused of leaving the country with the children, ages 5 and 7, last July, when she and her husband, Kurt Solay, were divorcing.
VERMILLION, S.D. (AP) — Authorities have searched both by ground and by air for a missing Vermillion woman but have come up empty, and the extensive search efforts for 52-year-old Barbara Zenk have been called off. Clay County Sheriff Andy Howe says authorities have searched the area on foot, brought in a tracking dog and also sent up a plane.
ELK POINT, S.D. (AP) — A rural Elk Point man accused of raping a young girl has pleaded not guilty by reason of mental defect. Thirty-six-year-old Trent Hemmingsen faces two counts of first-degree rape in Union County. He will undergo a psychological evaluation.
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — The Heartland Consumers Power District is receiving a $740,000 federal loan and a $300,000 grant to build a renewable energy training facility in Miner County. The funding comes through a federal Agriculture Department program.
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| Iowa News |
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Things are back to normal at the Polk County jail in Des Moines after some employees and visitors were evacuated because of a suspicious briefcase. It turns out the briefcase belonged to someone who had been arrested and contained a cell phone and an alarm clock — nothing dangerous.
MASON CITY, Iowa (AP) — A fire in Mason City destroyed a former lumberyard warehouse, but no injuries have been reported. Building owner John Boland says he stored several vintage cars in the warehouse, including street rods and restored old trucks. Fire officials are trying to figure out what caused the blaze.
INDIANOLA, Iowa (AP) — Authorities are investigating the death of a rural Indianola man who was apparently crushed when a vehicle he was working on fell off its jack. An autopsy is planned on 40-year-old Michael James Martin.
WESTMORELAND, N.H. (AP) — The oldest person living in the United States is now 114-year-old Neva Morris of Ames, Iowa. She was just a little younger than Mary Josephine Ray, who died in a Westmoreland, N.H., nursing home Sunday.
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