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“He was actually working in the basement on the fuse panel, and the fire started in the living room on the first floor”

A man and his dog escaped from a house fire overnight. Crews responded to the fire at 14th Avenue Northeast in Austin just after ten o'clock last night. via KAAL-TV Austin

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“I think it's something that's continuing on, and will probably increase in the future”

Whether you hit the highway or drove down the street to visit mom this Mother's Day weekend, record high gas prices were hard to ignore. via KAAL-TV Austin

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“It was not believed that there was a real threat”

An Austin High School student arrested after he allegedly threatened to bring a gun to school on Friday told authorities that he was joking. via Post-Bulletin

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A company says it will contest citations issued by state safety regulators in a worker's death at an ethanol plant under construction in northern Iowa. via KWQC-TV Davenport

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A Minnesota-based company receives a fine following an investigation into a deadly worker accident. via KIMT

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“Instead of our wages they're working a lot cheaper so they're getting paid a lot cheaper and it's putting a lot of people out of work because we can't outbid that to survive our families”

Thousands of people across the country marched today for International Workers' Day. via KAAL-TV Austin

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A former Navy sailor is going to prison for life for fatally shooting an 18-year-old Minnesota man during last year's Spring Break. via KARE-TV Minneapolis

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Superintendent Candace Raskin is resigning. The district's human resources department confirmed that Raskin had turned in her resignation letter today. via Post-Bulletin

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Norman W. Scheidt, age 85, of Austin, Minn., formerly of Valders, died peacefully on Sunday, April 27, 2008, at St. via WisInfo

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Norman W. Scheidt, age 85, of Austin, Minn., formerly of Valders, died Sunday morning, April 27, 2008, at St. via WisInfo

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