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Prep Blog: Top Weekend Match-Ups
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – It’s one of the busiest times of the winter to be a high school sports athlete. Conference seasons are in full swing across the state, and now suddenly almost every game is...
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Prep Blog: Top Weekend Match-Ups
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Conference play is just a different animal in sports, no matter what level we’re talking about. But especially in high school, more and more conferences seem to balance out in...
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Prep Blog: Boys Hockey Section Final Friday
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – The field for one of the most highly anticipated state tournaments will be set before the weekend is over. The boys State Hockey Tournament is always one of the most-watched and...
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Prep Blog: Previewing The Boys State Hockey Tournament
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Being the “State of Hockey,” fans are gearing up for one of the most anticipated and exciting high school state tournaments that high school sports offers in Minnesota. The Boys...
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Hermantown, STA Advance To Class 1A Championship
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Hermantown will play St. Thomas Academy in the Class 1A championship for the third straight year. Zach Kramer’s breakaway goal in the second overtime Friday gave Hermantown a 4-3...
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If You Missed It: High School Sports Rally For 3/8
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Friday night’s High School Sports Rally features the State High School Hockey semi-finals! Among the big matches are Hill-Murray versus Wayzata, Duluth East versus Edina, Breck...
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St. Thomas Academy Wins 3rd Straight Class A Title
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — St. Thomas Academy wins Class 1A hockey title ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Three was the magic number Saturday afternoon for St. Thomas Academy. Tommy Novak scored a power-play goal...
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Man Arrested In St. Louis County Home Invasion
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – A 37-year-old man was arrested Thursday after he broke into a northern Minnesota home and demanded guns and ammunition from the homeowner, according to the St. Louis County...
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Hermantown Teen Sleeps Outside On Frozen Nights
HERMANTOWN, Minn. (WCCO) — A teen from Hermantown, Minn. is braving the arctic blast that’s enveloped the Midwest by sleeping outside. Seventeen-year old Rudy Hummel has been sleeping in the backyard...
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Man Buried In Snow Fort Collapse Is Rescued
HERMANTOWN, Minn. (AP) — A man buried when a snow fort collapsed around him has been rescued in St. Louis County. Hermantown police say the man’s son called 911 about 5 p.m. Sunday after his father...
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Minn. Teen To Sleep Outside For A Year For Charity
HERMANTOWN, Minn. (AP) — A northern Minnesota teen who is vowing to sleep outside for a year is planning to help two charities. On June 7, 2013, 17-year-old Rudy Hummel began sleeping in his backyard...
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Prep Blog: Edina, East Grand Forks Are State Hockey Favorites
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – When the puck drops Wednesday morning at Xcel Energy Center, it’ll mark one of the most exciting and entertaining weeks of state tournament action. Between two classes, 16 of the...
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Luverne Makes Debut Appearance In State Hockey Tournament
LUVERNE, Minn. (WCCO) — The state hockey tournament is what every high school hockey player dreams about; a glorious tradition in the state of hockey. And it’s a tradition that the town of Luverne has...
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East Grand Forks Wins Class 1A Boys Hockey Crown
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — East Grand Forks didn’t let a slow start get in the way of a school first. Grant Loven had a goal and three assists as the Green Wave beat Hermantown 7-3 in the Class 1A Boys...
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Minnesota Teen Finishes Year Spent Sleeping Outside
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Seventeen-year-old Rudy Hummel hasn’t let one of the coldest winters in decades, drenching rain or clouds of mosquitoes prevent him from sleeping outside every night for a full year....
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Duluth Police Arrest 3rd Escapee
DULUTH, Minn. (AP) — Duluth police have arrested a third man who escaped from the Northeastern Minnesota Regional Corrections Center last week. Officers found 22-year-old Tyler Sandstrom at a home in...
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Police: Minnesota Man Dies After Stun Gun Shooting
HERMANTOWN, Minn. (AP) — The Hermantown Police Department says a man has died a week after officer shot him with a stun gun. Police said Monday the Hermantown man died in a hospital on Sept. 26. They...
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Police: 3 Dead Of Drug ODs In Duluth Area
DULUTH, Minn. (AP) — Police in the Duluth area say three people recently have died of drug overdoses. Police in Duluth and nearby Hermantown said Monday that the three died of overdosing on opioids in...
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Prep Blog: Friday’s Top High School Match-Ups
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – It’s hard to believe that we’re getting closer to the end of January, which means conference races in several winter sports are beginning to take shape. The conference season is...
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Hard-Luck Hermantown Prepares To Hunt Still-Elusive State Title
HERMANTOWN (WCCO) — If you set out in search of downtown Hermantown, you’ll likely keep looking quite a while. It’s more of a sprawl than a city. What unifies the town is the hockey team. “Hockey to...
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Spring Lake Park Makes 1st State Hockey Tourney Appearance
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — The Minnesota State Hockey experience really is unlike any other, from the homemade signs to the shameless mullets. “It’s starting to grow on me a little bit so I might keep it,”...
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Tweten’s OT Goal Spells Repeat For East Grand Forks
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Dixon Bowen thought nothing could match the feeling of winning a state championship as a junior for East Grand Forks. But on Saturday the now-senior said the Green Wave’s second...
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Betty’s Pies Founder Betty Lessard Dies
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A popular stop in cabin country is remembering its founder this weekend. Betty Lessard, the founder of Betty’s Pies in Two Harbors, passed away at age 90. Lessard took over her...
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Man Accused In Killing, Kidnapping Arrested In Minnesota
HERMANTOWN, Minn. (AP) — Police in northern Minnesota say they’ve arrested an Indiana man accused of killing another man at his estranged wife’s house and then forcing her and three children to flee...
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Wisconsin Bicyclist Struck, Killed In Northern Minnesota
HERMANTOWN, Minn. (AP) — Police say a Wisconsin man was struck and killed by an SUV while riding a bicycle in a city outside Duluth. The Hermantown Police Department says 44-year-old Richard Brill of...
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Bail Lowered To $100K For Man Charged In 4th Precinct Shooting
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Two of the four men connected with the shooting of five protesters are still in jail after court appearances Wednesday. The victims were protesting for Black Lives Matter outside...
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Prep Blog: Friday’s Top High School Match-Ups
It might be early January and our winter weather is finally turning frigid after a mild start, but conference races in the winter high school sports are starting to heat up and take shape. The holidays...
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Hermantown Shuts Out Breck For Class 1A Hockey Title
St. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Hermantown coach Bruce Plante entered Saturday afternoon’s Class 1A boys hockey championship nervous how he’d react win or lose. The Hawks made sure their coach could finally...
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Police: Driver Caught Going 171 MPH Near Duluth
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Hermantown police say a driver of a sport car was stopped after being clocked on radar at an extremely high speed: 171 miles per hour. According to police, while working a “Toward...
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Hermantown Man Among Best Video Game Race Car Drivers Worldwide
HERMANTOWN, Minn. (WCCO) — For most of us, the closest we’ve ever come to driving a race car is on a video game. But for one Minnesota man, that is serious stuff. In a quiet neighborhood in Hermantown,...
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Police Arrest 4 After Drive-By Shooting In Hermantown
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A man was injured and four people are in custody after a drive-by shooting in northern Minnesota. On Saturday, Hermantown police responded to a report of a drive-by shooting on the...
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Hermantown Wins 2nd Straight 1A Boys’ Hockey Championship
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Dylan Samberg turned potential devastation into jubilation. The senior scored with 19.4 seconds left in the second overtime and Hermantown won its second straight Class 1A boys’...
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Hermantown Man Wins $1 Million Powerball Prize
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – A Hermantown man is considering early retirement after winning the Powerball earlier this month. Greg Anderson was in New York when the winning numbers were drawn on March 18. It...
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Hermantown Hockey Dreamers Arrive At State Tournament
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — It is state tournament time in Minnesota. Boy’s hockey is taking over the Xcel Energy Center this week. There are plenty of kids dreaming of playing in the big dance. Blake Biondi...
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After 15-Year State Hockey Tournament Absence, Greenway Boys Return To Beat...
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Greenway fans weren’t necessarily planning on a trip to St. Paul in early March. The odds of even getting to the Boys’ State Hockey Tournament were stacked against the Raiders....
View Article1 Dead In Officer-Involved Shooting In Hermantown
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Authorities say a person has died in an officer-involved shooting Saturday afternoon in Hermantown. According to the Minnesota Department of Public Safety Bureau of Criminal...
View ArticleTimothy Majchrzak Identified As Man Killed In Hermantown Police Shooting
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Officials have released the name of the man who was fatally shot by police in northern Minnesota over the weekend. The Midwest Medical Examiner’s Office says 37-year-old Timothy...
View ArticleBicyclist, 47, Killed By Tour Bus On Hermantown Highway
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — The Minnesota State Patrol says a 47-year-old bicyclist was hit and killed by a tour bus late Friday night in Hermantown on Highway 53. Jacob Joseph Sabin, of Hermantown, was...
View ArticleH.S. Golf Coach Allegedly Bought Beer For Players
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Saying his team was upset about losing the Class AA state boys golf tournament on Wednesday by one stroke, a Hermantown High School boys golf assistant coach allegedly bought...
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