ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren will visit Minnesota to host a town hall on Monday. Warren will appear at the Leonard Center Fieldhouse at Macalester College in St. Paul. Doors open at 4:15 p.m. and the event begins at 6:15 p.m. Tickets can be ...
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A record number of Minnesota prison inmates were placed in solitary confinement last year. The Minnesota Department of Corrections housed inmates alone and away from other prisoners more than 8,000 times in 2018, which is an increase over previous years. While the ...
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The chair of a Minnesota Senate committee that oversees the Department of Human Services has told the agency's acting head that she or her successor need to figure out how they'll repay the federal government for $25 million in apparent overpayments to two tribes for ...
HASTINGS, Minn. (AP) — The boyfriend of a Minnesota foster mother has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for the fatal beating of a 3-year-old boy in her care. Twenty-eight-year-old Charles Homich was sentenced Tuesday after pleading guilty earlier to second-degree murder in the June 2017 ...
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Demolition has begun at a historic church in St. Paul. The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports an excavator began demolishing the former St. Andrew's Catholic Church in the Como Park neighborhood about noon Tuesday. Neighbors and preservationists had fought the ...
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Gov. Tim Walz named Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota chief executive Jodi Harpstead to take over the troubled Department of Human Services on Monday, choosing a leader with experience managing large organizations to replace his first choice who abruptly ...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A 5-year-old girl was undergoing surgery after being shot in the foot in north Minneapolis. The girl's family says she was sleeping when shots were fired at her home Monday morning. WCCO-TV reports the girl was in surgery Monday afternoon for a fractured foot. Minneapolis ...
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Gov. Tim Walz says he still wants Senate Republicans to hold hearings on Democratic proposals for gun control and emergency insulin supplies. The governor told reporters Monday he finds it "absolutely unacceptable" that none have been scheduled following the latest ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Prosecutors say three men have been indicted in a cyberstalking conspiracy that used GPS tracking devices to help murder a Missouri man. The U.S. Attorney's Office said Monday that the conspiracy began in November 2017 until March 2018 and resulted in the death of ...
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A pair of Senate committees will hold a joint hearing Tuesday on the disarray in Minnesota's Department of Human Services. The department, which is Minnesota's largest state agency, has come under sharp criticism in recent weeks that helped push out Gov. Tim Walz's ...
WEST DULUTH, Minn. (AP) — Fire officials say a worker was injured in an explosion at a commercial building in West Duluth. According to the Duluth Fire Department, the worker was removing floor adhesive when the explosion happened early Monday afternoon. The building was undergoing ...
KALISPELL, Mont. (AP) — Authorities say an experienced skydiver died after his parachute malfunctioned during a gathering in northwest Montana. The Daily Inter Lake in Kalispell reports 81-year-old Gerald Fischer, of Moorhead, Minnesota, was participating in the Lost Prairie Boogie near ...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Bicycle theft in Minneapolis is at a five-year high. Police Department data obtained by the Star Tribune shows almost 4,300 bikes reported stolen since 2017. The rash of thefts frustrates cyclists and police, who don't always have time to track down stolen bikes amid ...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Authorities say a 25-year-old Brooklyn Park woman crashed her car into a tree in central Minnesota and was killed. The Star Tribune reports the wreck occurred about 7:35 p.m. Saturday on southbound Hwy. 371 in Pequot Lakes. Authorities have yet to release her identity or ...
John Nguyen Minnesota Public Radio News ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Erin Olson remembers tagging along to her brother's scout meetings more than a decade ago. She wasn't yet in kindergarten, but she watched the meetings and learned outdoor skills along with the boys. "We would walk in and I ...
By TAD VEZNER St. Paul Pioneer Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Gerald Settles walks through the rooms at Boys Totem Town holding a thick ring of keys. There's hardly anyone around. Even those patrolling the grounds are private security, now, rather than county correctional staffers. The last ...
VIRGINIA, Minn. (AP) — The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is trying to figure out how damaging zebra mussels ended up in a mine pit on the Iron Range. The agency said Friday it has confirmed zebra mussels in the Rouchleau Mine Pit near Virginia in northeastern Minnesota. DNR ...
OXBOW, N.D. (AP) — The North Dakota Highway Patrol says a man is dead after a semi pulling a baler sheared his car in half. Authorities say 38-year-old Christopher Bauer of Puposky, Minnesota, was driving a Chevrolet Malibu on a county road south of Oxbow on Friday afternoon when he drove ...
FARGO, N.D. (AP) — Fargo firefighters have rescued a woman from the Red River. Firefighters responded Saturday afternoon to a report of a woman who was in the river and could not climb the steep shore. She was found about 75 yards (69 meters) downstream from where she entered the water, and ...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Local planners say Minneapolis is the first city of its size in the country to ban new drive-through windows. The City Council voted Thursday to ban new construction of drive-through facilities. The existing ones are grandfathered. Council President Lisa Bender proposed ...