Category Archives: KNSI Local News
Fundraiser for Miracle League of Minnesota at Beaver Island Brewing
(KNSI) - A St. Cloud radio station will be serving drinks at a local brewery to raise money for a local nonprofit helping kids. Kat and JJ Holiday from 104.7 KCLD's The Playhouse morning show will be ...
Aug 24, 2021 Miracle League of Central Minnesota
Details In Sex Trafficking Case Against GOP Donor Released
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - A police officer is testifying that a prominent Minnesota GOP donor allegedly paid underage girls for sex. The Star Tribune reports that Minneapolis Police Officer Brandon Brugg...
Aug 24, 2021 Sherburne County Jail
St. Cloud Hospital Adding ICU Beds as COVID Surge Continues
(KNSI) - CentraCare Health says the number of ICU patients with COVID has more than doubled in less than two weeks. Healthcare officials stated on August 12th, St. Cloud Hospital was treating eight pe...
Aug 24, 2021 Unsplash
MDH Officials Asking Minnesotans to Take COVID-19 Recommendations Seriously Ahead of State Fair, Start of School Year
(KNSI) - "We are at a point where we have a highly infectious virus causing a lot of illness in our state. If we want to reduce the transmission and the impact of transmission on our schools, our busi...
Aug 24, 2021 Photo by Markus Winkler on Unsplash
Officer Killed in Wisconsin UTV Crash
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - A Forest Lake Police Department sergeant is dead after his utility-terrain vehicle crashed in Wisconsin. The St. Paul Pioneer Press reports that Kurt Kowarsch was visiting his c...
Aug 24, 2021 Forest Lake Police Department
Minnesota Wildfires Disappoint Travelers and Outfitters
ELY, Minn. (AP) - Ely is typically teeming this time of year with visitors heading out on or returning from excursions into the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. But about the only cars in the no...
Aug 24, 2021 U.S. Forest Service - Superior National Forest Service
City Council Approves Funding for Two School Resource Officers for St. Cloud Area School District 742
(KNSI) - The St. Cloud City Council Monday night approved funding for additional School Resource Officers for portions of the upcoming school year. The item was part of a consent agenda package that a...
Aug 24, 2021 Jennifer Lewerenz/KNSI News
Rolling Stones Drummer Charlie Watts Has Died
LONDON (AP) - Charlie Watts, the self-effacing and unshakeable Rolling Stones drummer who helped anchor one of rock's greatest rhythm sections and used his "day job" to support his enduring love of ja...
Aug 24, 2021 Victoria Will/Invision/AP
COVID Hospitalizations Continue to Rise in Minnesota, 300+ New Cases in St. Cloud Area Found Over Weekend
(KNSI) - The Minnesota Department of Health reports that on Saturday, Sunday and Monday, 3,838 Minnesotans tested positive for COVID-19. The three-day report also includes 8 new deaths from COVID-19, ...
Aug 24, 2021 Unsplash
With Sales Still Surging, Best Buy Raises Prospects for 2021
NEW YORK (AP) - Best Buy raised its sales outlook for the year after breezing past Wall Street expectations in the second quarter. The nation's largest consumer electronics chain joined the slew of ot...
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