
The Belle Creek township board in southeastern Minnesota voted to appeal a decision by the Public Utilities Commission to allow a developer to proceed with a $179 million wind project near Red Wing.
As state and federal investigators came through the front door of a barn in Minnesota during a bust of the “Cornbread Mafia” in October 1987, Les Berry Jr. went out the back with six others and nearly escaped. Now after a conviction and prison time, his slate has been wiped clean by a presidential pardon this month.