Dec 17, 2020
Robert (Beefy) Lawson was a Deputy Sheriff for the Itasca County Sheriff’s Office in northern Minnesota. Loved and respected by everyone in the area, he was always focused on helping kids in need in this tight knit Iron Range community. In 1981, Beefy was executed by a local career criminal named Audie Fox,...
Dec 15, 2020
It was December 2nd, 1874. The beginning of the 4th coldest December Minnesotan’s had ever experienced. The country was in the last few years of the Reconstruction Era following the American Civil War, and Republican President Ulysses S. Grant was fighting for the protection of African Americans in the South through...