ROME (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Thursday she has "no idea" what she and the rest of President Barack Obama's national security team were watching at the precise moment that a photographer snapped what has become an iconic image of the operation that killed Osama bin...

Central Lakes College President Larry Lundblad smiled Wednesday after having a cream pie thrown in his face by a student to raise funds for the CLC food shelf. College officials took their turns  being pelted by cream pies to benefit the food shelf. ...

 WALKER — THE Cass County Land Department and  DNR will conduct a public hearing at 6 p.m. June 28 at the land department building in Backus as a preliminary to designating prescriptive easements over trails and roads serving as access to state and county land. Jerry Bourbonnais, DNR roa...

  CASS LAKE — The Cass County Sheriff’s Department reported that a 24-year-old Cass Lake man suffered two gunshot wounds and was airlfted to a Fargo hospital. Officials at Sanford Medical Center in Fargo said his condition was guarded late Wednesday afternoon. Officers from Cass County and ...

Brainerd School District students in grades kindergarten through fifth grade may be seeing a change in the way they’re taught the language arts and reading classes. And two fifth-grade classes may receive iPads as the district enters into a pilot project to see how the students benefit from the te...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The dramatic raid on Osama bin Laden's compound in a Pakistani suburb this week capped a decade-long manhunt, but it also revealed just how wrong the U.S. had been about where the world's most wanted terrorist was hiding. Time and again, the nation's top national security officia...

  WASHINGTON (AP) — With Osama bin Laden dead and buried, U.S. officials are starting to explore the computer files, flash drives, DVDs and documents that U.S. commandos hauled out of his Pakistani compound hideaway, hopeful that the intelligence trove will yield insights that point the way t...

  WASHINGTON (AP) — The challenge now is in the telling. The White House struggled to craft its account of the audacious raid that killed Osama bin Laden for both a jubilant American public and a skeptical Muslim world, correcting parts of its narrative, withholding others and hesitating to r...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A proposal expanding the right to use deadly force in self-defense is headed for a vote in the Republican-controlled House. The gun bill from GOP Rep. Tony Cornish won approval from a judiciary panel Wednesday after passing a public safety committee last week. The legislatio...

PILLAGER — Jake Eastman, 21, a 2008 graduate of Pillager High School, is a sailor serving on the USS Carl Vinson, the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier that was involved in the operation that resulted in the death of Osama bin Laden this week. He is the son of Scott and Cindy Eastman of rural Pillager. O...