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Thursday, Severe Weather Awareness Week Focuses on Tornadoes
(KNSI) - Severe Weather Awareness Week continues today with a focus on tornadoes. The best place to go during a tornado is an interior room on the lowest level of your home or business, such as a clos...
Jennifer Lewerenz Apr 07, 2022 Jake Judd/KNSI News

Man Charged After Allegedly Stalking and Beating a Woman
(KNSI) - A St. Cloud man accused of punching and strangling a woman is facing nine charges. According to the criminal complaint, police began the investigation on April 4th after the woman reported mu...
Jennifer Lewerenz Apr 07, 2022 Stearns County Jail

More Than a Million Birds Have Avian flu in Minnesota
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - Minnesota animal health officials say more than a million birds across the state have now been infected with bird flu. The latest cases reported Wednesday include two commercial...
Associated Press Apr 07, 2022 Unsplash

Medical Examiner Identifies Woman Whose Body was Found on the Ice in Watab Township
(KNSI) - The woman whose body was found in Watab Township is a 44-year-old from Royalton. Just before 8:00 a.m. March 31st, the Benton County Sheriff's Office got a 911 call of someone lying on the ic...
Jennifer Lewerenz Apr 07, 2022 Jennifer Lewerenz/KNSI News

St. Cloud Man Sentenced to Prison for Food Stamp, Covid Assistance Fraud
(KNSI) - A 60-year-old St. Cloud business owner has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison and three years probation for defrauding two government assistance programs. Hared Nur Jibril owned...
Jennifer Lewerenz Apr 07, 2022 Unsplash

St. Cloud Y, District 742 Team Up To Start Water Safety Program Thanks to Donation
(KNSI) - A new partnership between the YMCA and the St. Cloud Area School District will teach basic water safety to second grade students. The St. Cloud Area Family YMCA will begin the Safety Around W...
Jake Judd Apr 06, 2022 Jake Judd (KNSI News)

Feds: Medical device CEO owes more than $6 million in taxes
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - A CEO of a suburban Minneapolis medical device company is accused of failing to pay more than $6 million in payroll taxes, interest and penalties to the Internal Revenue Service. La...
Associated Press Apr 06, 2022 Pixabay

After Five Years, Potential Sartell Apartment Complex Still Awaiting Approval
(KNSI) - Sartell municipal staff are trying to unravel a mystery surrounding a deal originally approved by the city council in July 2017. Rick Schultz purchased a seven-plus acre parcel from the Ferch...
Ashley Menzemer Apr 06, 2022 Jennifer Lewerenz/KNSI News

Police Find Meth, Cocaine and a Gun During Search of Home
(KNSI) - Police say two small children were removed from a Willmar home and the adults were arrested after police seize around 3.4 pounds of methamphetamine, cocaine and a gun. The CEE-VI Drug and Gan...
Jake Judd Apr 06, 2022

Senator Howe Authors Bill Advocating for Disabled Veterans' Homestead Market Value Exclusion
(KNSI) - Surviving spouses of disabled veterans are falling into an unintended gap pertaining to the Homestead Market Value Exclusion. The previous policy allowed widows to take advantage of the polic...
Ashley Menzemer Apr 06, 2022 Minnesota Senate Republicans, CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons