Category Archives: KNSI Local News
Plane Skids Off Runway at St. Cloud Regional Airport
(KNSI) - The St. Cloud Fire Department says a plane skidded off the runway at St. Cloud Regional Airport Friday night. According to a critical incident report from the fire department, they were calle...
Dec 20, 2021 Jennifer Lewerenz/KNSI News
Closing Arguments Set for Monday in Kimberly Potter Manslaughter Trial
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Closing arguments are set for Monday in the manslaughter trial of the former Minnesota police officer who says she meant to use her Taser instead of her gun when she shot and killed...
Dec 20, 2021 Hennepin County Jail
Minnesota Wild Postpone 3rd Home Game In 10 Days Due To NHL’s COVID Boom
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — The Minnesota Wild have been forced to postpone their third home game in the past 10 days due to rising COVID-19 infections with an upcoming opponent. The NHL isn't taking a...
Dec 19, 2021
Vikings Waive CB Bashaud Breeland
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – The Minnesota Vikings waived cornerback Bashaud Breeland on Saturday. Breeland has played eight years in the NFL, and started all 13 games this season for the Vikings, after...
Dec 18, 2021
Court allows Biden Employer Vaccine Mandate to Take Effect
(Undated) - A federal appeals court panel on Friday allowed President Joe Biden's COVID-19 vaccine mandate for larger private employers to move ahead. The 2-1 decision by a panel of the 6th U.S. Circu...
Dec 17, 2021 Pixabay
Flags to Fly at Half Staff to Honor Upsala Fire Captain Who Died in the Line of Duty
(KNSI) - Flags around the state are at half staff until sunset on Saturday, December 18th, to honor Upsala Fire Captain Brian Lange. Lange died December 11th of a medical illness he suffered in the li...
Dec 17, 2021 Stearns County Twitter
Booster Seats Recalled
(KNSI) - The maker of infant bath seats has issued a recall due to a drowning hazard. Karmas Far's infant bath seats were sold as a two-in-one or three-in-one booster seat for eating, bathing, or sitt...
Dec 17, 2021 U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.
Man Sentenced in St. Cloud Park Rape
(KNSI) - The second of three men accused of taking a woman off a street in St. Cloud and raping her has been sentenced. A Stearns County judge sentenced Abdirahin Omar Ali to 30 years in prison. In Oc...
Dec 17, 2021 Stearns County Jail
Defense Rests In Potter Trial
(KNSI) - The defense has rested in the trial of the Brooklyn Center police officer charged in the fatal shooting of motorist Daunte Wright. Kimberly Potter took the stand in her own defense Friday, cl...
Dec 17, 2021 Court TV via AP, Pool
UPDATE: CentraCare Puts Nearly 300 Staff on Leave For Not Complying With Mandate
UPDATE: 6:00 p.m. (KNSI) - CentraCare Health now states they've placed an estimated 250 to 300 staff on a leave of absence for failing to comply with the vaccine mandate. CentraCare says as of Decembe...
Dec 17, 2021 A crowd protests outside St. Cloud Hospital in August 2021 against vaccine mandates Photo taken by Dene Dryden (KNSI News)