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The Holidazzle celebration is officially underway at Loring Park in downtown Minneapolis. People ice skated and enjoyed a fireworks show Friday night. WCCO-TV's Jennifer Mayerle was the emcee of Friday's kickoff.
A huge explosion jolted a St. Paul neighborhood Friday morning, sending 80-year-old John Lundahl to the hospital, and blowing out windows and walls of nearby homes. A nearby security camera captured the explosion rip the house apart, spewing an enormous fireball. The home was leveled, and others have been evacuated.
The FBI questioned a driver who led police on a chase Friday after crashing through a gate at Duluth International Airport. Police say 36-year-old Christopher Dunker crashed into a gate and then drove onto the runway. Officers chased him and stopped him.
Minnesota Traffic Safety encourages everyone to drive sober to prevent alcohol-related accidents and deaths, with 191 DWIs already this holiday weekend.
Getting someone to shovel your driveway or sidewalks is now as easy as picking up your phone-- and you don't even have to dial a number with an app-based service called Lawn Love.
Over the past few years, Black Friday has morphed into an entire month of deals. With more sales spread over weeks and online, shopping on the day after Thanksgiving isn't quite what it used to be.
Family members of two 14-year-old girls who were seriously hurt after being hit by a car in St. Francis are speaking about the incident for the first time.
Breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer and the second most deadly kind of cancer found in women, with nearly one in eight women diagnosed.
Women's rights advocates said they were shocked when a federal judge in Michigan ruled this week that a law protecting girls from genital mutilation was unconstitutional. They called his decision a serious blow to girls' rights. Legal experts said the judge made clear that U.S. states have authority to ban the practice, though only about half do. Here is a look at the ruling, which dismissed several charges against a doctor accused of cutting nine girls in three states as part of a religious custom, and what could happen next.
A massive new federal report warns that extreme weather disasters, like California's wildfires and this year's hurricanes, are worsening in the United States. It also reveals the economic and health toll of climate change.
The sheriff leading the state commission investigating Florida's high school massacre says he now believes trained, volunteer teachers should have access to guns so they can stop shooters who get past other safeguards.
Hours after Black Friday sales kicked off, some popular products are already in short supply at major retailers. Best Buy, Target and Walmart are selling out of some inventory, according to BlackFriday.com, although shoppers can often find similar deals at rival stores.
Turkey's foreign minister has criticized President Trump, saying the U.S. leader appears to want to "turn a blind eye" to the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi agents at the kingdom's consulate in Istanbul. Mevlut Cavusoglu also described many European nations' response to Khashoggi's killing as "artificial" and "cosmetic."
Police say an 82-year-old woman has died after the vehicle she was driving was broadsided on Thanksgiving Day at the intersection of County Road 17 and County Road 5 just west of Comfrey.
A Lakeville man has been sentenced to more than seven years in federal prison for a precious metals investment scam that federal authorities say he ran for nearly seven years.
