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...

The Brainerd Economic Development Authority will meet at 8 a.m. Tuesday at the Brainerd City Hall Council Chambers on the third floor....

The Brainerd Public Schools Foundation will be sponsoring the scholarships award program that begins at 5:30 p.m. May 16 in the cafeteria at the Washington Educational Services Building.   In 2010, more than $720,000 in scholarships were awarded to Brainerd High School graduates and $32,000 was...

Two are cities — Pine River and Hackensack — were listed as experiencing problems in 2010, according to a drinking water report issued by the Minnesota Department of Health....

BAXTER — The Baxter Police Department was honored Tuesday as the top law enforcement agency in the Minnesota Department of Public Safety’s Office of Traffic Safety.  Tom Kummrow of the Office of Traffic Safety presented Baxter Police Chief Jim Exsted with the award for the Toward Zero Death...

Central Lakes College 2011 Awards Day winners have been announced. Ceremonies were held recently at campuses in Brainerd and Staples. Brainerd campus:...