BringMeTheNews swept the radio newscast category with first-, second- and third-place finishes at the annual Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists award ceremony Tuesday night.

A routine school assembly became anything but when middle school math teacher Seth Brown learned he had won the Milken Educator Award.

Hardcore fans of singer Jimmy Buffett call themselves 'Parrot Heads'. The Detoit Lakes Parrot Heads Club earned a top award from the Jimmy Buffett Parrot Heads in Paradise. The award is for charitable and environmental work.

Four Daughters Vineyard and Winery in Spring Valley took top honors at the fourth annual International Cold Climate Wine Competition at the U of M on Thursday, the Post Bulletin reports. The Four Daughters 2011 La Crescent beat out more than 325 wines from 12 states and Canada to win the Minnesota's Governor's Cup trophy and "Best of Show" for the top white wine.

Two Minnesotans are being honored with Carnegie medals for saving men from drowning last year in two separate incidents. Last December, a Sauk Centre high school student rescued an ATV rider who went through the ice. The other awardee managed to tow a man to shore in the rushing current of the Mississippi River in May.

Sgt. Katie Blackwell was among the officers and citizens honored by Minneapolis police Thursday. She was honored for how she handled a life-threatening situation with a man suffering from mental illness who drew a bow and arrow. She diffused the situation without anyone getting hurt.

Former President Bill Clinton was in Minnesota Saturday to dedicate a statue at the state Capitol in honor of the late former Vice President and U.S. Sent. Hubert H. Humphrey. Clinton. "He believed that with a happy heart, and an open ear and an honest dialogue -- a lot of conflict could be resolved," Clinton said of Humphrey.

Governor Dayton ordered state and national flags be flown at half staff Tuesday to honor the memory of Army Sgt. Nicholas Dickhut. He was killed in action in Afghanistan last week. It was Dickhut's second overseas deployment. He'd been awarded the Bronze Star and Purple Heart.