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New, returning events bring Sounds of Summer fun

MARSHALL — All the fun of Marshall’s free community festival is back — and this year, Sounds of Summer is returning to its old grounds near Saratoga Street. Festival organizers said live concerts and other events will take place next to The Splash, Marshall’s newly-opened aquatic ...

Right on Q for Horvath, Brunsvold

MARSHALL — In Marshall, Quentin Brunsvold is well known as the fire chief. Quinn Horvath is a local funeral home director. Together, however, many people in southwest Minnesota have seen them in an entirely different way — as the Singing Qs. And on Aug. 21, the singing duo will return to ...

'Very proud to be picked'

LYND — Dan and Kelly Pochardt did not expect to be singled out. ​When they learned they had been selected as Lyon County's Farm Family of the Year, their first reaction was to think of the farms around them. ​"We feel very proud to be picked," Kelly said. "We know a lot of neighbors ...

Fake polling from mysterious company highlights danger of unvetted election surveys

NEW YORK — Locked in a competitive reelection race, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass declared on social media last week that a new poll was evidence that her campaign was "gaining momentum." Just a few days later, the truth emerged: The poll was fabricated. The California results were among at least three "polls" across three states posted online this month by Median Strategies, a previously unknown organization that admitted to the Los Angeles Times on Monday that the purported results were fake. The company wrote before shuttering its website this week that it "was created as a ...

ABC sues FCC over challenge to its broadcast licenses, saying actions present 'existential threat'

Further escalating its battle with the Trump administration, ABC on Tuesday took the rare step of suing the Federal Communications Commission on First Amendment grounds, saying the agency's demand for early review of its broadcast licenses posed an "existential threat" to the network. In the lawsuit, ABC, its parent company Disney and the eight ABC-owned stations whose licenses are affected asked a federal court to stop the early renewal proceedings. The FCC under Chairman Brendan Carr, an ally of President Donald Trump, had ordered the early review in April — itself a rare move ...