Wednesday, August 27, 2008
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Three-year-old Sarah Johnson died in a fire that destroyed this Duluth Township home Tuesday night. Clint Austin/News Tribune

Grandmother saves two of three children in Duluth Township fire

Updated: Despite the heroic efforts of a 52-year-old grandmother, a 3-year-old twin girl died in a Duluth Township fire Tuesday night, St. Louis County Undersheriff Dave Phillips said this afternoon.

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Appraisers for New York art auction houses say this Tiffany stained-glass window, called “Minnehaha” for the fictional character depicted in it, could fetch up to $3 million million for the city of Duluth, although local officials would prefer to sell the big window to someone in Duluth. [BOB KING / NEWS TRIBUNE]

Can she save the city? Appraisers say 'Minnehaha' window could fetch up to $3 milllion

If the 115-year-old Tiffany window depicting a fictional American Indian princess draws the bids experts say it might, the world-class piece of art could make a big dent in Duluth’s $6.5 million 2008 shortfall.

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Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., addresses delegates Tuesday at the Democratic National Convention in Denver. [RON EDMONDS / ASSOCIATED PRESS]

Clinton: Just say no to McCain

DENVER — Hillary Clinton summoned millions of voters who supported her in the primaries to send Barack Obama to the White House, declaring in a Tuesday night Democratic National Convention speech that the man who defeated her “is my candidate and he must be our president.”

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City asks Duluth residents to cut down water usage

The city of Duluth asked residents Tuesday to stop sprinkling water on their lawns temporarily because of increased demand that has caused a shortage in the city’s water tanks.

Duluth area residents losing ground

The local poverty rate increased slightly in 2007, while incomes in St. Louis and Douglas counties stayed nearly unchanged.

FOX 21 WEATHER UPDATE for August 27: PM Showers, spotty storms; HI: 72; LO: 55

Good morning, here's your weather discussion for Wednesday, August 27: Finally, after a long wait, most Northlanders will get at least a little rain today as a cool front slides in from the west.

Hermantown man pleads not guilty in gunshot incident

A 25-year-old Hermantown man pleaded not guilty Tuesday to three felony crimes after being accused of shooting bullets into a car driven past his house.
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