BLAINE, Minn. (AP) — Police have responded to a shooting outside a Walmart store in Blaine. KSTP-TV reports a man in his 30s was shot in the ear by someone he knew. The shooting happened about 5 a.m. Monday. The victim was taken to the hospital and is expected to be OK. Authorities are ...
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Authorities say a onetime U.S. Postal Service employee in western Minnesota cheated the government out of more than $100,000 in federal disability benefits by claiming she had a workforce injury while at the same time competing in dog agility events. The Star Tribune ...
MANKATO, Minn. (AP) — Authorities are investigating after a hunter reported finding a body in the woods near Mankato. Deputies were called to the area northeast of Highway 83 on Thursday. Authorities don't know the name and identity of the person. The Blue Earth County Sheriff's Office says ...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minneapolis police made one arrest and issued one citation during protests outside a campaign rally by President Donald Trump. Police say the arrest was for damage to property and the citation was for disorderly conduct. Several thousand people protested outside Target ...
By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota Democrats, Muslims and other groups condemned President Donald Trump on Friday for criticizing the state for welcoming so many Somali refugees, and they called out Republican leaders for failing to criticize his statements. At ...
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A Minnesota man will serve six months in jail for the death of his 4-year-old son who the man left for hours in a hot SUV. Twenty-six-year-old Kristopher Taylor of Apple Valley also will be on electronic monitoring for six months. The Star Tribune reports Judge Robert ...
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A U.S. Postal Service worker from western Minnesota has pleaded guilty to stealing more than $100,000 in government benefits. The U.S. Attorney's office says 57-year-old Lisa Ann Schafer of Glenwood pleaded guilty to theft of government funds. According to Schafer's ...
GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — Federal authorities say a South Carolina woman kidnapped a girl from Minnesota and sexually assaulted her. Citing an FBI affidavit, news outlets report 23-year-old Katrina Marie Aliff was arrested last month on charges including aggravated child sexual abuse. The ...
By JAMES MacPHERSON Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum on Friday activated the state's emergency plan due to what he called a crippling snowstorm that closed major highways and had farmers and ranchers bracing for huge crop and livestock losses. "The ...
MAKINEN, Minn. (AP) — The Midwest Medical Examiner's Office has ruled the death of a man in St. Louis County is a homicide. The sheriff's office has identified the victim as 47-year-old Frank Gerald Meyer. Deputies found his body was found Tuesday afternoon at a residence where they were ...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — President Donald Trump was defiant in the face of an impeachment probe Thursday as he sought to convert the threat to his presidency into a weapon on the campaign trail, with biting and unsupported attacks on potential Democratic challenger Joe Biden. Facing an ...
BEMIDJI, Minn. (AP) — A Red Lake man has pleaded guilty to fatally beating and strangling his wife and leaving her on the side of a road in northern Minnesota. The U.S. Attorney's Office says 39-year-old Jeremiah Kingbird entered the plea to second-degree murder in federal court in Bemidji ...
MOORHEAD, Minn. (AP) — A North Dakota man has been charged in Minnesota with allegedly showing a handgun to another driver during a road rage fit over a political bumper sticker on her vehicle. KFGO radio reports that 27-year-old Joseph Schumacher, of Bismarck, North Dakota, was charged ...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Police are investigating a Minnesota man who allegedly hid cameras inside dressing rooms at the Mall of America in Bloomington and another Minneapolis area shopping mall. The 41-year-old Elk River man has not been charged. The Star Tribune reports details were contained in ...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The conflict and Twitter battles arrived in Minnesota well ahead of President Donald Trump's touchdown in the state. Trump traded Twitter insults with the Minneapolis mayor over who should pay more than $500,000 in security costs for Thursday's rally at a downtown arena. ...
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — St. Paul police say an officer's body armor prevented serious injuries when a suspected shoplifter tried to stab him in the chest with a screwdriver. Police were called to Lund & Byerlys grocery store in downtown St. Paul Monday night where employees reported a ...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — President Donald Trump's campaign said a rally in Minneapolis will go ahead as planned on Thursday after it threatened a lawsuit over the city's effort to recover $530,000 in security costs. The dispute erupted late Monday when the campaign accused Mayor Jacob Frey, a ...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar has filed for divorce from her husband, citing an "irretrievable breakdown" of her marriage. The freshman Democrat filed for divorce from Ahmed Hirsi on Friday in Minnesota's Hennepin County District Court. Omar and Hirsi have been legally married ...
Amy Klobuchar said Monday that she raised $4.8 million in the third quarter for her 2020 presidential campaign, a total that places the Minnesota senator in the middle of the Democratic field in fundraising for the third straight quarter. Klobuchar has raised more than some rivals but less ...
MOORHEAD, Minn. (AP) — A North Dakota man faces charges after police say he displayed a handgun after a dispute over political bumper stickers with another driver in Minnesota. Moorhead, Minnesota, police say a woman reported she was driving Monday when the 27-year-old West Fargo man pulled ...