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CO Darrin Kittelson (International Falls #1) spent the week instructing emergency vehicle operation and ATV operation with DNR Academy 23 at Camp Ripley. CO Curtis Simonson (International Falls #2) reports working area lakes this past weekend. Area trails and forest roads were monitored for ATV activity. Nuisance-animal complaints were dealt with. CO John Slatinski IV (Ray) worked a security

A former University of Minnesota diver is headed to the Olympic Games in Paris. Sarah Bacon qualified this past week in two separate events. On Monday night, Bacon, along with her partner Kassidy Cook, won the women's 3-meter synchro event at the U.S. Olympic Team Trials in Knoxville, Tenn. Then, Bacon qualified as an individual on the 3-meter springboard. She led the semifinals on Thursday

One evening in December 2003, a colleague and I were sitting in our suite in the Hamra hotel in Baghdad. We were part of a small team of Newsweek reporters dispatched to cover the rising insurgency in U.S.-occupied Iraq. We were always on the alert, wondering when the insurgents might come after the hotel, which was lightly protected and filled with a whole population of desirable targets:

WASHINGTON -- The head of the Homeland Security Department said Friday that the agency tasked with responding to disasters across the country is prepared as it goes into what is expected to be an intense hurricane and wildfire season, but he's concerned about looming budget shortfalls. As parts of the U.S. are sweltering under potentially record-breaking temperatures, Secretary Alejandro