(2009/01/08)
ST. PAUL (AP) — The scuffle over a replacement senator for President-elect Barack Obama highlights an obstacle likely to keep Democrat Al Franken from taking office in Washington before a court challenge over his apparent victory in Minnesota is resolved.
(2009/01/08)
ST. PAUL (AP) — A proposal to streamline purchasing by schools got bipartisan attention Wednesday, even though it won’t help lawmakers with a $4.8 billion hole in the state budget.
(2009/01/08)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota significantly lags behind the national average in its number of English-as-a-second-language teachers, according to a report released Tuesday.
(2009/01/08)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Two felony charges against Vikings great Carl Eller are being dropped. A judge will rule on two lesser charges stemming from his clash with police last April.
(2009/01/08)
DULUTH, Minn. (AP) — A 64-year-old Duluth woman whose heart stopped beating and body temperature dropped to a dangerous 60 degrees after she was stuck in the cold for hours has survived — and her recovery amazed doctors.
(2009/01/08)
WARROAD, Minn. (AP) — A northern Minnesota man committed a crime when he voted on Election Day.
(2009/01/08)
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The woman convicted of causing a school bus crash that killed four children last winter is appealing her conviction.
(2009/01/08)
ST. PAUL (AP) — A 22-year-old man has pleaded guilty to first-degree murder for killing the mother of his ex-girlfriend outside her New Brighton home last summer.
(2009/01/08)
ST. PAUL (AP) — Attorneys for victims of the Interstate 35W bridge collapse say they have a strong case to sue two private companies for breach of contract.
(2009/01/08)
ELK RIVER, Minn. (AP) — Authorities in Sherburne County are investigating a string of fish house burglaries.
(2009/01/08)
OLIVIA, Minn. (AP) — A newspaper carrier for the West Central Tribune was making a delivery in Olivia when she walked to a customer’s door and found an unconscious man.
(2009/01/08)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Authorities are holding a Minneapolis man who’s wanted for murder in Mississippi.
(2009/01/08)
ST. PAUL (AP) — St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman says he’s running for re-election this year.
(2009/01/08)
CRYSTAL, Minn. (AP) — Authorities have identified a man’s body found in Crystal over the weekend as that of a missing Brooklyn Park man.
(2009/01/07)
ST. PAUL (AP) — Republican Norm Coleman filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging Democrat Al Franken’s apparent recount victory in Minnesota’s U.S. Senate race, delaying a resolution of the contest for weeks or months.
(2009/01/07)
ST. PAUL (AP) — Some Minnesota lawmakers were looking to the federal government for help with a giant deficit as the Legislature convened on Tuesday. Others focused on cutting costs as small as stamps.
(2009/01/07)
ST. CLOUD, Minn. (AP) — Social services officials in central Minnesota say they are seeing a substantial increase in the number of people seeking help because of the slumping economy.
(2009/01/07)
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Milwaukee police have investigated a suburban barber’s reported deathbed statement that he was a child killer but found no connection with any missing child case, including that of a Minnesota boy abducted two decades ago, a police spokeswoman said Tuesday night.
(2009/01/07)
ST. PAUL (AP) — Gov. Tim Pawlenty won’t travel far to deliver his annual State of the State address next week.
(2009/01/07)
RED WING, Minn. (AP) — A judge has cut $200,000 from the damages that Red Wing owes a former public works official who sued the city.
(2009/01/07)
ST. PAUL (AP) — A scorned 21-year-old told her ex-boyfriend he couldn’t prove she was the one who vandalized his apartment on three occasions — but then, police say, she posted a picture of the damage on MySpace.
(2009/01/07)
OWATONNA, Minn. (AP) — Prosecutors in the case of a slain Waseca father and son want jurors to know about the suspect’s drunken driving arrest.
(2009/01/07)
MAHNOMEN, Minn. (AP) — A 21-year-old woman who was found dead in the woods after leaving a New Year’s Eve party died of exposure, Mahnomen County authorities said.
(2009/01/07)
BEMIDJI, Minn. (AP) — It’s been canceled twice before due to a lack of snow. But this year, the annual dogsled race near Frazee is being canceled for the opposite reason — too much snow.
(2009/01/07)
ROSEVILLE, Minn. (AP) — A retiree and a college student both won $1 million from the Minnesota Millionaire Raffle held on New Year’s Day.
(2009/01/07)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minnesota Daily is eliminating its Friday edition in a cost-cutting move.
(2009/01/07)
ST. PAUL (AP) — The Minneapolis Court of Appeals has upheld an Olmsted County judge’s ruling that the Rochester Athletic Club did not discriminate against a lesbian couple when it denied them a family membership.
(2009/01/06)
ST. PAUL (AP) — A Minnesota board on Monday certified results showing Democrat Al Franken winning the state’s U.S. Senate recount over Republican Norm Coleman, whose lawyer promised a legal challenge that probably will keep the race in limbo for months.
(2009/01/06)
ST. PAUL (AP) — Minnesota lawmakers will have a hard time peeling their attention away from the huge hole in the state budget when they convene today. But they will also take on some thorny issues that have little to do with money.
(2009/01/06)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate officials closed Norm Coleman’s office Monday morning, two days after the Minnesota Republican’s term expired.
(2009/01/06)
ST. PAUL (AP) — Dam engineers plan to inspect three dikes that hold large volumes of coal ash at Minnesota power plants.
(2009/01/06)
FARGO, N.D. (AP) — Wind tower manufacturer DMI Industries says it is cutting about 20 percent of its work force due to declining demand from developers struggling to get financing for wind projects. About 60 people at the company’s West Fargo plant will lose their jobs.
(2009/01/06)
MINNEPOLIS (AP) — Former Minnesota Vikings great Carl Eller sued the Minneapolis Police Department on Monday, alleging officers violated his civil rights, used excessive force and concealed videotape evidence when they subdued him during an arrest in April 2008.
(2009/01/06)
ST. PAUL (AP) — An engineering firm that analyzed the Interstate 35W bridge before it collapsed is asking a judge to dismiss parts of four lawsuits from victims.
(2009/01/06)
NEW MARKET, Minn. (AP) — A call about a domestic dispute led to a shot being fired by a Scott County deputy in New Market.
(2009/01/06)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A former Albertville man who never served any prison time for driving drunk and killing a Scott County sheriff’s deputy in 2003 admitted violating his probation Monday.
(2009/01/06)
TYLER, Minn. (AP) — Classes were canceled Monday at a high school in Tyler, and much of the city was without water after a waterline break.
(2009/01/06)
PITTSBURG, Kan. (AP) — George F. Budd, a past president of Pittsburg State University and St. Cloud State University in Minnesota, has died. He was 93.
(2009/01/05)
OLIVIA, Minn. (AP) — Most teenage students at Renville County West say it’s wrong to get drunk. But they’re not necessarily sure about what their friends think.
(2009/01/05)
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A new study confirms that vibrations from the proposed Central Corridor light rail between St. Paul and Minneapolis would affect buildings along the route. But it also shows the shaking could be eliminated through technology.
(2009/01/05)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A University of Minnesota professor is teaching class at the school — while traveling by bicycle through 10 African countries.
(2009/01/04)
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Victory in Minnesota’s drawn-out Senate race moved within Democrat Al Franken’s grasp Saturday when he pushed his lead over Republican Norm Coleman to 225 votes with the two-month recount virtually done.
(2009/01/04)
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Lawmakers have collected hundreds of ideas from Minnesotans on ways to help solve the state’s budget shortfall.
(2009/01/04)
MINNEAPOLIS — Hundreds of people marched in Minneapolis to protest Israel’s military offensive in Gaza City.
(2009/01/04)
ST. CLOUD, Minn. — St. Cloud Regional Airport officials say the number of passengers boarding commercial flights there was down 20 percent in 2008 from the previous year.
(2009/01/04)
MANKATO, Minn. — The Minnesota Department of Transportation reports roadways in much of the state are hazardous as the first winter storm of the year rolls in.
(2009/01/04)
MONTICELLO, Minn. — It’s a beautiful scene — hundreds of trumpeter swans gently float in the mist of the Mississippi River, getting some winter relief in the warm water released by the power plant in Monticello.
(2009/01/04)
NAYTAHWAUSH, Minn. — Mahnomen County sheriff’s officials are trying to determine what killed a 21-year-old woman who was found dead after last being seen at a New Year’s Eve party.
(2009/01/04)
WILLMAR, Minn. — A blind man and his service dog became stranded after a snowdrift blocked a sidewalk in Willmar.
(2009/01/04)
BEMIDJI, Minn. — Minnesota farmers, concerned about the pending state budget deficit, want lawmakers to hold the line on spending.
(2009/01/04)
ROCKVILLE, Minn. — When Nativida Castro Nava turned 15 in August, her parents threw her a party — balloons, cake, flowers ... and a mariachi band.
(2009/01/04)
NORMAL, ILL. — Police in Illinois say actor and playwright Sam Shepard has been arrested on preliminary charges of speeding and drunken driving.
(2009/01/04)
DULUTH, Minn. — The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources will allow off-highway vehicles to ride on all routes in the Cloquet Valley State Forest unless they are posted as closed.
(2009/01/03)
ST. PAUL (AP) — Minnesota’s extended Senate race played out on three fronts Friday: local officials readied unopened absentee ballots for counting this weekend, the state’s highest court kept a legal door open for Sen. Norm Coleman and a top Republican in Washington hinted at a Capitol battle ahead.
(2009/01/03)
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The recession will worsen and unemployment rates will likely soar in nine Midwest and Plains states over the next few months, but a new survey of business leaders suggests the region may fare better than the nation as a whole.
(2009/01/03)
DULUTH, Minn. (AP) — It may seem strange during these lackluster economic times, but jobs working on the U.S. Census are going begging in Duluth.
(2009/01/03)
ST. PAUL (AP) — To some of the people who know him back home in Texas, Brandon Darby is a traitor.
(2009/01/03)
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A bird strike caused the 2007 crash of a University of North Dakota airplane that killed two people, the National Transportation Safety Board says.
(2009/01/03)
NEW YORK MILLS, Minn. (AP) — The tricky business of morality is this year’s brain-teaser in the annual philosophy competition known as the Great American Think-Off.
(2009/01/03)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Three people were arrested after one of them allegedly parachute jumped 32 stories off the Foshay Tower in downtown Minneapolis — and they returned to the scene to brag about it.
(2009/01/03)
ST. PAUL (AP) — What should be in a Minnesota time capsule to be opened on the state’s bicentennial 50 years from now?
(2009/01/03)
RICHFIELD, Minn. (AP) — A busy stretch of Twin Cities freeway will be closed for the weekend, raising the potential for snarled traffic.
(2009/01/03)
ST. PAUL (AP) — It’s part of winter in Minnesota: hitting the sidewalk with a shovel as soon as there’s enough snow to clear.
(2009/01/02)
LAKE CITY, Minn. (AP) — Two young Minnesota men allegedly stole about $250,000 in cash from one teen’s grandfather on Christmas Day, then went on a two-day shopping spree where they bought at least six cars and trucks, a flat-screen television and a laptop computer.
(2009/01/02)
MOORHEAD, Minn. (AP) — Beth Siverhus has hunted deer since 1976, and for the first time next year she plans to use copper-coated bullets instead of lead.
(2009/01/02)
GILBERT, Minn. (AP) — The Iron Range cities of Gilbert and Biwabik may merge their separate police departments into one as they look to trim costs ahead of expected local aid cuts from the state.
(2009/01/02)
WASECA, Minn. (AP) — An 80-year-old Waseca man has been recognized by the Guinness World Records for being the oldest known person with Down syndrome.
(2009/01/01)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — In theory, Minnesotans whose absentee ballots were rejected, reconsidered, then rejected again have a last chance to get their voice heard before the end of the state’s U.S. Senate recount. In practice, they’re probably out of luck.
(2009/01/01)
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A federal conservation program originally designed to help small farmers is now disproportionately benefiting industrial livestock operations, according to a new report by a family farm advocacy group.
(2009/01/01)
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Xcel Energy’s North Dakota electric customers will start paying a 7.4 percent rate increase in March, which will give ratepayers a break from added costs they have been paying for almost a year. Homeowners will get summer bill credits of more than $30.
(2009/01/01)
STILLWATER, Minn. (AP) — The son of a man who died in a Stillwater nursing home has sued the facility in federal court, claiming that his father died of thirst.
(2009/01/01)
ST. PAUL (AP) — Two pedestrians were arrested after one allegedly shot at an off-duty St. Paul police officer who advised them not to stand in the middle of an icy intersection Wednesday.
(2009/01/01)
BURNVSVILLE, Minn. (AP) — An electrical short circuit caused a fire at a Burnsville apartment building Dec. 22, investigators said.
(2009/01/01)
BOSTON (AP) — There were 124 passengers on Northwest Airlines Flight 59 when it left the Netherlands. There were 125 when it landed in Boston.
(2009/01/01)
DULUTH, Minn. (AP) — An airplane on a demonstration flight made an emergency landing on the U.S. Highway 61 expressway on the northern fringe of Duluth just before noon Wednesday.
(2009/01/01)
CROOKSTON, Minn. (AP) — A Polk County employee who accidentally sank a county loader into an icy river in Crookston has been fired.
(2009/01/01)
OWATONNA, Minn. (AP) — A 2-year-old Owatonna boy who was hit by a car earlier this week will be remembered Saturday in a funeral service.
(2009/01/01)
HOT SULPHUR SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Two Minnesota snowmobilers are alive and safe a day after going missing in Grand County.
(2009/01/01)
ST. PAUL (AP) — A teen found dead in prison in November hanged himself, the Ramsey County Medical Examiner said.
(2009/01/01)
BURNSVILLE, Minn. (AP) — A resident of the Burnsville apartment building destroyed by fire knew his cat Thunder would hide under the bed if he were scared.
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