Abby Faulkner

WAITE PARK – It’s business as usual for Sammy’s Pizza in Waite Park. The restaurant closed in June for large-scale remodeling after being sold by longtime owner Dick Blitvich.

- SARTELL – On today’s version of “Made in Central Minnesota,” we’re profiling DeZurik, a longtime, flagship central Minnesota company that’s quietly impacting major industrial activities the world over.

An overheated compressor has been determined as the root cause of the Verso Paper Mill explosion.

Central Minnesota airplane enthusiasts were treated to a rare sight at the Brainerd Regional Airport beginning yesterday.

- It’s the day before the official start of the 100th Benton County Fair, and the grounds are packed with folks getting everything ready.

We all know it’s important to enjoy what you do for a living, but Coborn’s grocery store employees took that to a new level on Tuesday night during the 23rd annual “Best Bagger Competition.”

__ A Civil War Soldier hailing from central Minnesota has finally been honored with a headstone on his grave site. Reporter Abby Faulkner tells his story.

ST. CLOUD – Yesterday we told you about the SWAT competition, one of the events of the 2012 Can-Am Police-Fire Games. Today, it was announced that the St. Cloud team took first place out of the 9 teams in the 6-event competition. The event was not open to the public...

Seasoned police veterans from all around Minnesota and Iowa are squaring off in the Can-Am Games’ S.W.A.T. team competition.

Jerry Carlson ventures out on the lake once again and this week he gives us some great perks to using plastic bait or jig worms.

Nearly 40 area community fire departments and numerous agencies are being praised for their efforts in the wake of the Verso mill explosion.

This week, Jerry demonstrates the effectiveness of “wacky worm rigging.”