Category Archives: KNSI Local News
More than Half of Minnesota's Teachers, Seniors Vaccinated Against COVID-19
(KNSI) - Minnesota hit a milestone this weekend: 1 million people vaccinated against COVID-19 with at least one dose. The state's latest data, reported on March 5, shows 1,046,077 people have received...
Mar 08, 2021 A nurse prepares a dose of COVID-19 vaccination at the Twin Cities Orthopedics Performance Center during COVID-19 vaccinations in Eagan, Minn., on Friday, March 5, 2021. Approximately 13,400 doses of the single-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine will be administered at the Minnesota Vikings practice facility to health care workers and adults 65 years of age or older over the next few days. (John Autey/Pioneer Press via AP, Pool)
Man Jailed on Charges of Criminal Sexual Conduct
(KNSI) - A St. Cloud man is in the Stearns County jail and charged with two counts of criminal sexual conduct. Police say they were called to a report of a woman being choked Wednesday night. They say...
Mar 08, 2021 Stearns County Jail
Hundreds of Central Minnesota Businesses Earn Small Business Relief Grants
(KNSI) - More than 100 St. Cloud businesses are getting $10,000 grants through the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development's small business grant program aimed at keeping those bus...
Mar 05, 2021 Unsplash
MDH Unveils Race, Ethnicity Data of COVID-19 Vaccine Recipients
(KNSI) - On Friday, the Minnesota Department of Health published COVID-19 vaccination data that details vaccine recipients' race and ethnicity. The data show that white Minnesotans are disproportionat...
Mar 05, 2021 Photo by Samuel Regan-Asante on Unsplash
Belgrade Woman Killed After Crash With Semi
UPDATE: 4:30 PM---The Minnesota State Patrol has identified the victim as 82-year-old Marilyn Joan Hagen (KNSI) - A Belgrade woman was killed after crashing head-on into a semi in Kandiyohi County. Th...
Mar 05, 2021
Rox Sign Sauk Rapids Graduate
(KNSI) - The latest players to sign with the St. Cloud Rox include a Sauk Rapids native. Left-handed pitcher Brady Posch graduated from Sauk Rapids-Rice High School in 2019. He led his team with a 1.8...
Mar 05, 2021
One COVID-19 Death, 66 New Cases Recorded Around St. Cloud Friday
(KNSI) - The Minnesota Department of Health reports 813 new cases of COVID-19 and 13 deaths statewide today. The death count includes one person from Sherburne County in their 70s. In the five-county ...
Mar 05, 2021 Unsplash
Anglers To Keep Fewer Sunfish On Several Area Lakes
(KNSI) - New sunfish regulations go into effect on the Sauk River Chain of Lakes in Stearns County this year. The changes will mean anglers can only take 10 sunfish a day rather than the statewide lim...
Mar 05, 2021 Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
Man Creates Public Tracking Document to Help People Find COVID-19 Vaccines
(KNSI) - Finding an appointment for a COVID-19 vaccine is proving difficult for some Minnesota seniors, and a new public vaccine tracking document has popped up to help them out. The document was crea...
Mar 05, 2021 Unsplash
Appeals Court Rules Chauvin's Third-Degree Murder Charge Can Be Reinstated
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - The Minnesota Court of Appeals on Friday ordered a judge to reconsider adding a third-degree murder charge against a former Minneapolis police officer charged in George Floyd's deat...
Mar 05, 2021