Category Archives: KNSI Local News
SJU Alum, Astronaut Mark Vande Hei Holding Q&A with Students From Space
(KNSI) - A Saint John's graduate will talk to St. Cloud area students from students the International Space Station. NASA Astronaut Mark Vande Hei will hold a question and answer session on Tuesday af...
Sep 13, 2021 Submitted By SJU/CSB from 2018 session
Judge Weighs Keeping Minneapolis Police Question On the Ballot
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - A judge promised Monday to rule as soon as possible on whether to strike a revised version of a ballot question on the future of policing in Minneapolis in the wake of the death of ...
Sep 13, 2021 Richard Tsong-Taatarii/Star Tribune via AP, Pool, File
Renewed Push to End So-Called 'Lunch Shaming' Among Students as Kids Head Back to Class
(KNSI) - As students head back to school, there is a new push for a universal school meal program to avoid what is known as "lunch shaming." Lunch shaming is when a student doesn't have enough money i...
Sep 13, 2021 Unsplash
Hanover Man Dies in Hiking Accident at Interstate State Park
(KNSI) - A 39-year-old man from Hanover is dead after he fell while hiking at Interstate State Park in Taylors Falls on Saturday. The Chisago County Sheriff's Office said just before 7:45 Saturday eve...
Sep 13, 2021 Unsplash
King's Inn Fire Called Suspicious, Reward Offered
(KNSI) - Officials are calling a fire that destroyed an abandoned building on Little Rock Lake near Rice suspicious. Sauk Rapids Fire Chief Jason Fleming says there is up to a $5,000 reward for inform...
Sep 13, 2021 Jake Judd (KNSI News)
Marginal Risk for Severe Weather Monday Afternoon
(KNSI) - Stearns County is at a marginal risk for severe weather on Monday. The National Weather Service says storms will initiate in western Minnesota midafternoon and push through central Minnesota ...
Sep 13, 2021 National Weather Service
Woman Killed in Early Morning Maple Grove Crash
(KNSI) - A 21-year-old woman is in custody after a fatal crash Sunday morning in Maple Grove. According to a press release from Maple Grove police, the crash on County Road 81 was called in from a veh...
Sep 13, 2021 Unsplash
Fatal Shooting in Long Prairie Under Investigation
(KNSI) - Investigators in Todd County are looking into what led to a fatal shooting in Long Prairie Sunday morning. According to a press release, police were called to respond to a report of gunshots ...
Sep 13, 2021 Unsplash
Dar al-Farooq Mosque Bomber to Be Sentenced Monday
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - The leader of an Illinois anti-government militia group who authorities say masterminded the 2017 bombing of a Minnesota mosque is to be sentenced Monday for several civil right...
Sep 13, 2021 Ford County Sheriff's Office via Associated Press
Northern Minnesota Wildfire 67% Contained
ISABELLA, Minn. (AP) - Authorities said Sunday that a vast majority of the Greenwood Lake wildfire in northern Minnesota is contained, one month after lighting ignited the blaze in the Superior Nation...
Sep 13, 2021 Associated Press