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Carbon Monoxide Kills

    Twenty-year-old Gary Wayne Jennings returned home last Saturday at 8:50 p.m. to find four members of his family unconscious on the ground in their home and promptly called the sheriff’s office for help.          The Beltrami County Sheriff’s Office responded to the “unknown medical crisis” call from Frohn Township. Full story

Men’s Hockey Wins 500th in the Glas

  The Beavers' 5-1 victory this weekend was the 500th win for the Bemidji State University (BSU) men’s hockey team in the John Glas Fieldhouse. This is the last season the Glas will be used for hockey, and is the 43rd season it’s been used. Full story

Video Games are Good for You

      “If you sit in front of the TV playing video games for too long, you’ll kill your eyesight!”  I’m sure all you geeks out there have heard this hundreds of times while growing up -- I know I did.  But within the past year there was a study done that proves good old mom and dad wrong. Full story

The iPad: a Step Further for the Laptop?

         Apple Inc. recently released a new product for Mac users to drool over, but is it really everything they’ve ever wanted?  Considering the hype surrounding the new iPad, one would think that it is something new and interesting. Full story

$6,667 Per Minute

50 Cent Performs At X-Games

           Nearly $7,000 per minute — that was what 50 Cent was paid to play a half-hour concert at the X-Games in Aspen, CO, for a grand total of $200,000.     It was a great spectacle to see the infamous 50 Cent (Curtis Jackson) prance around on stage and get the crowd hyped up, but it was a little unfortunate to hear him lip-sync a few songs. Full story