BLOOMINGTON, Minn.— WCCO Radio of Minneapolis, Minnesota Public Radio, KTTC-TV of Rochester and WDIO-TV of Duluth are among top winners in the 2013 Minnesota Associated Press Broadcasters Awards Contest.
KTTC-TV won first place in spot news for coverage of a flash flood rescue. WDIO won best-in-show for a look at Duluth's underground tunnels.
WCCO won for coverage of the legalization of gay marriage in Minnesota, affordable health care and the search for a 2-year-old western Wisconsin boy found dead in a locked trunk.
WCCO also was cited for memories of the Metrodome, sports play-by-play, best newscast and website.
MPR won for examining why electronic pulltab gambling flopped and for writing about last summer's stifling heat.
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News director Wendy Wilde, of KTOE-AM in Mankato, won the Lone Ranger Award, honoring one-person radio newsrooms.
