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So few people in this area know that an Oscar-winning actor was born in St. Cloud. Born Byron Elsworth Barr,...

The Minnesota sports calendar certainly kicked off with some big events at the start of this new year. First, the...

There used to be this excitement for me around the holidays. The timeframe is fuzzy but a few weeks before...

We Minnesotans just love to complain about the weather; it’s practically a part-time occupation. This past summer, though, we had...

In old Western movies, there was often a scene in which a bugle blared as the cavalry soldiers on horseback...

As the snow starts to come down and the holiday season is upon us, I’ve been increasingly thinking about the...

by Leanne Loy editor@thenewsleader I was sitting at my home office, taking a work call when I saw a woman...

Santa Claus arrived early, bringing a big bag bursting at the seams with $1.2 trillion-worth of jobs-boosting infrastructure projects. On...