(2008/07/25)
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Brian Hanson could have taken a buyout package worth $100,000 to leave the Ford Motor Co. assembly plant here, but he had a feeling the company’s plans to close the plant in 2008 might change.
(2008/07/25)
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House overwhelmingly passed legislation Thursday aimed at improving the safety of the nation’s bridges, nearly a year after the deadly collapse of an interstate highway bridge in Minneapolis.
(2008/07/25)
ST. PAUL (AP) — The presidential race tightened considerably in Minnesota over the last month, with Republican John McCain erasing a once-commanding lead by Democrat Barack Obama in Minnesota according to an independent poll released Thursday. Republican Norm Coleman remained far ahead of DFLer Al Franken in the Senate race.
(2008/07/25)
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (AP) — Republican Tim Pawlenty denied Thursday he is letting his work on behalf of presidential candidate John McCain get into the way of his job as Minnesota governor.
(2008/07/25)
ATLANTA (AP) — A federal judge has set a trial date for a lawsuit by a group of airline passengers that seeks to block Delta Air Lines Inc. from acquiring Northwest Airlines Corp.
(2008/07/25)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The judge presiding over the Red Lake school shooting lawsuits has outlined his reasons for keeping the estate of Jeffrey Weise out of lawsuits filed by survivors and victims’ family members.
(2008/07/25)
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — A date will likely be set soon for a state Transportation Commission hearing on the Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad’s application to acquire land by condemnation for its planned $6 billion expansion project, a state official said Thursday.
(2008/07/25)
BRICELYN, Minn. (AP) — No charges are expected in a shooting that critically wounded a 15-year-old boy in southern Minnesota.
(2008/07/25)
SKIME, Minn. (AP) — A 7-year-old boy from northwestern Minnesota will likely survive being shot in the forehead.
(2008/07/25)
ST. LOUIS PARK, Minn. (AP) — A woman was shot to death in a car outside an assisted living facility where she worked in St. Louis Park.
(2008/07/25)
ST. PAUL (AP) — GOP congressional candidate Brian Davis has missed 10 property tax deadlines and paid $1,400 in fines since 2003.
(2008/07/25)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Former Minnesota Vikings defensive lineman Darrion Scott has received a two-year stayed sentence for putting a plastic bag over his 2-year-old son's head.
(2008/07/25)
APPLE VALLEY, Minn. (AP) — Three rare fisher kits born at the Minnesota Zoo in Apple Valley now are on display.
(2008/07/25)
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The Republican National Convention is scheduled to convene at 2:30 p.m. Sept. 1, just half an hour after protesters have been told they must clear the area.
(2008/07/25)
ST. PAUL (AP) — The state Board of Animal Health said 6,800 cattle will be slaughtered or removed from a region in northwest Minnesota that has been infected with bovine tuberculosis.
(2008/07/25)
ST. PAUL (AP) — A Wisconsin man has been charged with tax fraud for allegedly filing false tax returns in Minnesota.
(2008/07/25)
ST. PAUL (AP) — An inmate at the Stillwater prison has been sentenced to a year in prison after being convicted of trying to escape.
(2008/07/24)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Borrowing from a European model, Minneapolis and St. Paul police hope to quell any disruptions at this summer’s Republican National Convention by exchanging cell phone numbers and offering other olive branches to demonstrators.
(2008/07/24)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Northwest Airlines, which already plans to reduce flying from now through the end of the year, could shrink more and keep raising fares if fuel prices don’t come down, Chief Executive Doug Steenland said on Wednesday.
(2008/07/24)
FOREST LAKE, Minn. (AP) — The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources has been testing different kinds of bullets as part of an effort to prevent lead from getting into venison.
(2008/07/24)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — An appeals court Wednesday upheld a ruling ordering the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate the water discharged from ships as a way to protect local ecosystems from invasive species.
(2008/07/24)
WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) — A compact to prevent the diversion of water from the Great Lakes has widespread support in Congress and a strong chance of winning approval by the end of the year, lawmakers said Wednesday.
(2008/07/24)
ST. PAUL (AP) — A pharmacy in Byron has been slapped with a record $25,000 fine for filling Internet prescriptions in violation of a new state law.
(2008/07/24)
ST. PAUL (AP) — A jury has acquitted a man accused of killing his girlfriend 27 years ago in Maplewood.
(2008/07/24)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Authorities are looking for a man who led officers on a chase from Burnsville to Wisconsin to Minneapolis.
(2008/07/24)
BRICELYN, Minn. (AP) — A 15-year-old boy is in critical condition after a shooting at a rural Bricelyn home.
(2008/07/24)
SKIME, Minn. (AP) — Authorities say a 7-year-old boy was airlifted to MeritCare in Fargo, N.D., after he was shot in northwestern Minnesota.
(2008/07/24)
ST. PAUL (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is headed back to Minnesota in early August for a private fundraiser.
(2008/07/24)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The two public beaches at Lake Nokomis in south Minneapolis are closed after vandals overturned a portable outdoor toilet.
(2008/07/24)
WHITE EARTH, Minn. (AP) — White Earth police officers now are stopping and citing residents of the northwestern Minnesota reservation who are not wearing seat belts.
(2008/07/23)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A new study says Minnesota can meet its goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent by 2025 if certain steps are taken now.
(2008/07/23)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Just back from a congressional tour of energy sites in Colorado and Alaska, U.S. Representative Michele Bachmann said Tuesday that the United States must tap its energy reserves and that only Congress is standing in the way of making a dent in rising fuel costs.
(2008/07/23)
WILLMAR, Minn. (AP) — A study will be conducted to determine if a 17-year-old boy should be tried as an adult in the stabbing death of a Willmar college football player.
(2008/07/23)
SAUK CENTRE, Minn. (AP) — Two Minnesota men have died in two separate ultralight plane crashes.
(2008/07/23)
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (AP) — When it comes to winning an amusement park ride endurance contest, high school teacher Jim Salava could give lessons in persistence.
(2008/07/23)
ST. PAUL (AP) — A sixth-grade teacher from Stillwater is the new Minnesota Teacher of the Year.
(2008/07/23)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A former Eagan doctor has had his medical license suspended after he reportedly admitted having sex with two female patients.
(2008/07/23)
ST. PAUL (AP) — Police said a 2-year-old St. Paul girl has died after a television accidentally fell on her.
(2008/07/23)
COLUMBIA HEIGHTS, Minn. (AP) — A Columbia Heights woman who has been missing since last August has been declared dead.
(2008/07/23)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A real estate broker has been charged with felony theft after he allegedly stole pain medication from houses he had claimed to be showing to clients.
(2008/07/23)
ST. PAUL (AP) — The Department of Natural Resources is reporting bird die-offs on two Minnesota lakes.
(2008/07/23)
ST. CLOUD, Minn. (AP) — A state representative who decided against running for re-election as an Independent after being shunned by the Republican caucus will instead run for state Senate.
(2008/07/22)
ST. PAUL (AP) — Construction crews began removing row after row of Xcel Energy Center seats. Forklift drivers slid load after load of electrical equipment off semi trucks. And the arena’s manager handed over a ceremonial key to the building.
(2008/07/22)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Tractor-trailer and bus drivers in the United States have suffered seizures, heart attacks or unconscious spells behind the wheel that led to deadly crashes on highways. Hundreds of thousands of drivers carry commercial licenses even though they also qualify for full federal disability payments, according to a new U.S. safety study obtained by The Associated Press.
(2008/07/22)
ROCHESTER, Minn. (AP) — A 40-year-old man from western Tennessee has been charged with murder in the death of his father at a downtown Rochester hotel.
(2008/07/22)
ST. PAUL (AP) — Crops in Minnesota got a boost from warm weather and rain last week.
(2008/07/22)
PEQUOT LAKES, Minn. (AP) — A man is dead after an ultralight plane crashed into a field near Pequot Lakes.
(2008/07/22)
FERGUS FALLS, Minn. (AP) — A Fergus Falls man is injured after his car rear-ended a new sport utility vehicle belonging to the Clay County Sheriff's office.
(2008/07/22)
ST. PAUL (AP) — With gasoline prices soaring, the Ramsey County sheriff's office is cracking down on gas thieves.
(2008/07/22)
CLEARWATER, Minn. (AP) — A 24-year-old St. Cloud man is seriously injured after he tried to jump aboard a semi truck in Clearwater but was run over by it instead.
(2008/07/22)
WILLMAR, Minn. (AP) — Two 17-year-old boys are accused in a weekend stabbing death in Willmar.
(2008/07/22)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Northwest Airlines jetliner made a safe emergency landing in Madison on Monday after the pilot reported a pressurization problem, an airline spokesman said.
(2008/07/22)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Law enforcement officials say violent crime in Minneapolis is down 14 percent compared with this time last year.
(2008/07/22)
MARSHALL, Minn. (AP) — A search organizer said there's still no sign of a Marshall man missing for more than two months.
(2008/07/22)
DULUTH, Minn. (AP) — The cost of parking at a meter is going up in downtown Duluth.
(2008/07/22)
FARGO, Minn. (AP) — More people are riding the bus in Fargo-Moorhead, and higher gas prices apparently are the reason.
(2008/07/21)
ST. PAUL — Minnesota pollution regulators are traveling the state to hear from livestock farmers about feedlots.
(2008/07/21)
DAYTON, Ohio — A Northwest Airlines plane made an emergency landing Sunday at Dayton International Airport, interrupting the city’s air show.
(2008/07/21)
DETROIT LAKES, Minn. — An accident during the Detroit Lakes Water Carnival Parade sends five people to the hospital Sunday afternoon.
(2008/07/21)
DULUTH, Minn. — Outdoor church services, kite-flying at Canal Park and trash pickup along Barker’s Island are all part of a Sunday celebration honoring Lake Superior.
(2008/07/21)
ST. PAUL — The keys to Xcel Energy Center are about to be handed over to Republican National Convention planners.
(2008/07/21)
WASHINGTON — Proponents of mental health insurance long championed by the late Senator Paul Wellstone are hoping that Congress will finally pass the bill this week.
(2008/07/20)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The federal government has rejected nearly $1 million in 35W bridge collapse expenses that the city of Minneapolis hoped to have reimbursed.
(2008/07/20)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A storm system pushing through the upper Midwest produced reports of weak tornadoes in rural areas northwest of the Twin Cities Saturday afternoon.
(2008/07/20)
MINNEAPOLIS — One measure of the excitement being generated by the two presidential candidates might be the number of people lining up to volunteer at the national conventions.
(2008/07/20)
ST. PAUL (AP) — Hospitals in St. Paul are gearing up for the throngs of people expected to attend the Republican National Convention.
(2008/07/20)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — U.S. Senate candidates Norm Coleman and Al Franken are scheduled to share a stage for the first time after criticizing each other for months.
(2008/07/20)
DULUTH, Minn. (AP) — A rich nickel-copper-precious metals formation stretching from the outskirts of Babbitt toward Ely is drawing plenty of interest from mine developers.
(2008/07/20)
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — St. Paul police are investigating the Friday night shooting of three teens.
(2008/07/19)
ST. PAUL (AP) — Jurors in Minnesota soon will be paid half of what they get now for a day of duty.
(2008/07/19)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The estate of the teenager who killed seven people when he opened fire at Red Lake High School won’t be added to existing lawsuits filed by survivors and victims’ families, a Hennepin County District Court judge has ruled.
(2008/07/19)
MADISON (AP) — Multiple confessions and a DNA match were enough for a judge to order a college dropout to stand trial Friday in a murder that left Wisconsin’s capital city on edge for weeks.
(2008/07/19)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — One measure of the excitement being generated by the two presidential candidates might be the number of people lining up to volunteer at the national conventions.
(2008/07/19)
NEW BRIGHTON, Minn. (AP) — Ramsey County prosecutors have charged a 21-year-old man with second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of a 48-year-old woman outside a home in the Minneapolis suburb of New Brighton on Thursday.
(2008/07/19)
ROCHESTER, Minn. (AP) — A 41-year-old Canadian man has been arrested in the death of his father, whose body was found in a downtown hotel, Rochester police said.
(2008/07/19)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minneapolis woman was sentenced to 40 years in prison for beating a 4-year-old boy to death.
(2008/07/19)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A real estate broker is facing charges after he allegedly stole pain medication from houses he had claimed to be showing to clients.
(2008/07/19)
MARSHALL, Minn. (AP) — A judge is ruling that a woman accused of driving a van into a school bus full of students can present evidence her boyfriend was driving.
(2008/07/19)
ST. PAUL (AP) — Minnesota's utilities are trying to figure out ways to cut electricity and natural gas sales by 1.5 percent per year.
(2008/07/19)
ST. PAUL (AP) — The head of Minnesota's state pension fund is getting an immediate $101,000 raise.
(2008/07/19)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The names of three Minnesota-born actresses will appear on blue, snowflake-shaped stars in the sidewalks of Hennepin Avenue in downtown Minneapolis.
(2008/07/19)
ST. PAUL (AP) — More public libraries in the Twin Cities area could start charging fees to patrons checking out movies on DVD.
(2008/07/19)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota health officials said West Nile virus has stayed away so far this summer.
(2008/07/18)
ST. PAUL (AP) — The new Interstate 35W bridge will probably be finished before a lawsuit over the bidding process behind it goes on trial in December.
(2008/07/18)
ST. PAUL (AP) — The state agency that tracks Minnesota employment is reporting the state's unemployment rate dropped slightly in June.
(2008/07/18)
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Minnesota family is trying to force a New Jersey drug company to give their son an experimental drug for a fatal form of muscular dystrophy, saying he’ll die without it.
(2008/07/18)
ST. PAUL (AP) — Private planes flying into the Twin Cities will have to get special permission the week of the Republican National Convention and they’ll have to contend with restricted airspace.
(2008/07/18)
HOPKINS, Minn. (AP) — Cutting edge DNA analysis led police to arrest a 27-year-old St. Paul man in the stabbing death of 90-year-old Irene Kunze in Hopkins.
(2008/07/18)
GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn. (AP) — In yet another sign of the foreclosure mess, animal shelters in the Midwest are filling up with thousands of pets suddenly without homes.
(2008/07/18)
DULUTH, Minn. (AP) — U.S. Marshals have arrested a suspect in a weekend shooting that critically injured a Marine veteran in Duluth.
(2008/07/18)
NEW BRIGHTON, Minn. (AP) — Police are searching for the man who fatally shot a woman outside a home in New Brighton.
(2008/07/18)
ST. CLOUD, Minn. (AP) — A 42-year-old St. Cloud man has been charged with producing child pornography at the home where his wife runs a day care.
(2008/07/18)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minneapolis police lieutenant has been reinstated four months after he was put on leave pending a federal criminal investigation.
(2008/07/18)
MOORHEAD, Minn. (AP) — Clay County Commissioner Jerry Waller is due in court on charges that he slapped a male high school student during a shop class in May.
(2008/07/18)
MENDOTA HEIGHTS, Minn. (AP) — Fire investigators said a flowerpot caused a fire that destroyed a Mendota Heights home last week.
(2008/07/18)
EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. (AP) — Rescuers have freed a construction worker trapped in waist-high dirt in Eden Prairie.
(2008/07/18)
MANKATO, Minn. (AP) — The rain fell just in time for crops in the Mankato area.
(2008/07/18)
ST. PAUL (AP) — The chancellor of Minnesota State Colleges and Universities is getting a raise.
(2008/07/18)
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska State Troopers have confirmed the identities of two passengers killed after a floatplane crashed and burned last weekend.
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