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Officers Ask Hunters for Help
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 Hunters across Minnesota will load up their guns and head out early Saturday morning for the first day of deer season. But law enforcement officials are asking them to keep their eyes peeled for more than just deer...
Updated: Nov 06, 10:47 PM |
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Student Food Drive Comes to an End
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 In just one month, twenty local school districts have done something pretty unbelievable. It's sponsored by Tyson Foods, which also gave 30,000 pounds to get things started. The goal for students was 40,000 additional pounds, and the final total 81,244 pounds...
Updated: Nov 06, 10:44 PM |
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Family Frantic to Hear from Fort Hood Soldier
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 Steve Wernimont was working at his Rochester Culver's restaurant Thursday when he saw reports of the mass murder at fort hood on the restaurant's television...
Updated: Nov 06, 07:43 PM |
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Future Uncertain for Curt Rude
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 The future for Austin Police Captain Curt Rude is still uncertain. Both the Austin Police Department and the Austin School Board don't have solid answers to what will happen to Rude's position, as we wait for his sentencing...
Updated: Nov 06, 07:39 PM |
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Students Help Feed People Through Food Drive
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 In all 20 schools, including Austin, Rochester, even Chatfield and Spring Grove are participating and tonight we find out how all of their hard work has paid off...
Updated: Nov 06, 07:37 PM |
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Local Schools Get Creative for Food Drive
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 One month, 20 schools, and a lot of hard work goes into helping feed hungry people in southeast Minnesota. Tonight, the channel one student food drive is wrapping up, and we'll finally know just how much food our local students have collected...
Updated: Nov 06, 07:31 PM |
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Elementary Makes Sandwiches to Help
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 The students from Montessori at Franklin Elementary School are used to buddying up with students from different grades. They work on all sorts of projects together in a mentorship role, from reading stories to one another to painting, but today's project was about giving back to the community...
Updated: Nov 06, 07:21 PM |
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Business Booms on Eve of Opener
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 Nearly a half of a million Minnesotans are expected to hit forests and the fields this weekend as Saturday marks the official beginning of the firearm part of the deer hunting season. And that's making local businesses boom...
Updated: Nov 06, 07:13 PM |
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Long-Term Facilities Prepare for H1N1
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 While it had been considered a young persons illness, the H1N1 virus is now appearing in the elderly population. Minnesota Department of Health Officials say that two long-term care facilities in the state have reported H1N1 outbreaks...
Updated: Nov 06, 09:16 AM |
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March of Dimes Chefs Auction
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 It's great food, for a good cause. Tonight, the March of Dimes held its 19th Annual Signature Chef's Auction...
Updated: Nov 05, 10:54 PM |
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Support for Austin Teacher
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 Hundreds of people came out to support one very special woman in Austin tonight. Margy Voss taught at Austin schools for 30 years until this past July when she broke her neck in a car accident while on vacation in Arizona...
Updated: Nov 05, 10:52 PM |
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Students Force Principal Out
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 How many pounds of food does it take to force a principal out of his office? About 12-thousand, as some local students found out...
Updated: Nov 05, 10:50 PM |
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12 Dead in Shooting at Fort Hood
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 The U.S. Army says 12 people have been killed and 31 wounded in a shooting rampage on the Fort Hood Army base in Texas.
Updated: Nov 05, 07:13 PM |
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Rude Guilty on Two of Three Counts
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 Austin Police Captain Curt Rude has been found guilty on two criminal counts. The 12-member jury delivered its verdict at 5:50 p.m. Thursday night...
Updated: Nov 06, 07:52 AM |
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Unemployment Extended for Minnesotans
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 Congress is sending the President legislation that would extend unemployment benefits in Minnesota another 14 weeks. Some say it couldn't come at a better time...
Updated: Nov 05, 07:03 PM |
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Homebuyer Tax Credit Extension
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 Some good new tonight for anyone in the market for a new home, or those who already own one. Congress has voted to extend the first-time homebuyers tax credit, and expanded the program to give a current homeowners money too...
Updated: Nov 06, 03:37 PM |
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Pawlenty Proposes Constitutional Amendment
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 Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty proposed a constitutional amendment to cap state spending. But the plan has been met with everything from questions to skepticism and allegations about motive...
Updated: Nov 05, 06:56 PM |
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More Snowplow Training
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 A $648,000 piece of machinery is crisscrossing the state, helping MnDOT employees gear up for another Minnesota winter. 11-hundred people have been trained so far...
Updated: Nov 05, 06:52 PM |
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Jury Deliberates Curt Rude Trial
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A 12 member jury is now deciding whether or not Austin Police Captain Curt Rude is guilty of stealing drugs from the police evidence room...
Updated: Nov 05, 04:03 PM |
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More H1N1 Deaths
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 Shock and sadness tonight after friends and family learn a single mother of three from Wisconsin has died of the H1N1 flu virus at the Mayo Clinic. Now health officials confirm more deaths in both Minnesota and Iowa...
Updated: Nov 05, 07:50 AM |
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Day Three in Rude Trial
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 Suspended Austin Police Captain Curt Rude took the stand today in day three of the trial. Today Rude was on the stand to defend himself against charges that he stole the drug Oxycontin from the police evidence locker...
Updated: Nov 05, 08:06 AM |
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Tough Decisions for Austin
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 The Austin board of education has some tough decisions to make. Voters in the Austin school district turned-down an operating levy referendum yesterday, and now the board needs to look at ways to make-up the difference...
Updated: Nov 05, 08:18 AM |
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Even With Referendum, BP Could Make Cuts
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 Eight votes was all that separated victory from defeat in the Blooming Prairie School District referendum Tuesday night. Voters there approved a tax increase, giving the district nearly 700 dollars per student for the next ten years...
Updated: Nov 04, 07:18 PM |
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Runoff for Mason City
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 Election night may be over, but we still don't have a clear winner for one local race. In Mason City, a seat on the city council in the 2nd ward is still up for grabs...
Updated: Nov 04, 07:15 PM |
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Local Boy Raises Awareness
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 A little boy is looking for a donor to help save his life. Now a new event could help him, an others around the globe, to just that...
Updated: Nov 04, 07:12 PM |
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BP Referendum Narrowly Passes
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 Voters in Blooming Prairie approved a levy referendum to increase taxes in that district. It means the district will receive seven hundred dollars per student for the next ten years...
Updated: Nov 04, 04:43 PM |
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Rude Takes The Stand
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Suspended Austin Police Captain Curt Rude took the stand Wednesday, denying claims that he acted improperly when he took a bottle of pills from the department's evidence locker. Watch the full story tonight on ABC 6 NEWS at 6pm.
Updated: Nov 04, 01:54 PM |
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A Minnesota soldier is among those killed in the shooting rampage at Fort Hood... 
Mayo Clinic has received another shipment of the H1N1 vaccine and is again taking appointments for vaccination... 
The Austin School Districts new referendum was voted down last night, and that's got officials eyeing the budget...