5 Traveling To Minn. Swept Away By High Water
A coroner says three adults and two children have drowned in southern Illinois after the vehicle they were riding in was swept away and sank in a rain-swollen creek.
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A coroner says three adults and two children have drowned in southern Illinois after the vehicle they were riding in was swept away and sank in a rain-swollen creek.
The four people killed in a crash in Aitkin County were a family from Columbia Heights.
Here's a look at the four things you need to know for Dec. 27, 2015.
The African-American celebration of Kwanzaa kicked off at the Minnesota History Center. The holiday has been honored for nearly 50 years.
The overnight snowfall probably meant you had some shovelling to do -- but now, there's an app that can help you with that.
The Minnesota State Patrol says it happened around 3 p.m. with icy conditions on the road. All four of the victims were in a 2001 Mazda SUV.
Minneapolis plans to ask for money to help fix a bridge that links the University of Minnesota's East and West Bank campuses.
Five days into the start of winter and most of Minnesota and western Wisconsin saw the first snow fall of the season. The timing could not be better for businesses that see a boost when the flakes start falling.
A driver crashed into a north Minneapolis restaurant early Saturday morning, just moments after stealing the vehicle. Minneapolis Police say the crash happened at about 4:15 a.m. at Tooties On Lowry on the 2700 block of Lowry Avenue North.
Much of southern Minnesota awoke to a layer of snow that came too late for a White Christmas. The National Weather Service says Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport had 2 inches of snow by 6 a.m. Saturday. Another inch or two of snow was expected across the Twin Cities area Saturday afternoon and evening.
Authorities are investigating a Christmas Day house fire in Austin that left one person dead. Austin Fire Chief Jim McCoy says the fire was reported just after 3 p.m. Friday. The victim was found dead inside.
Jamaican lottery scammer Sanjay Williams got off a plane in Charlotte, North Carolina, in June 2013, on his way to meet with the people who moved money for him. He was promptly arrested by U.S. law enforcement authorities, convicted in May and sentenced to 20 years in a U.S. prison. While the arrest on American soil spared authorities from extraditing Williams.
When Tom Emmer burst — vociferously — onto Minnesota's political scene a decade ago, the Republican's style rocketed him through the state Legislature and brought him within a whisker of the governor's office. He retreated following that 2010 loss to conservative talk radio, but has been back at it as a congressman for the state's 6th District for a year.
A Minnesota man accused of selling knockoff clothing in North Dakota has been ordered to serve three years of probation and pay back $750. Hyokeun Lee, of Bemidji, Minnesota, is charged in federal court with 13 counts of trafficking counterfeit goods. He pleaded guilty in September.
A rare book containing what is believed to be the world's first printed maps is on display at the James Ford Bell Library at the University of Minnesota. The James Ford Bell Trust acquired an example of the "Rudimentum Novitiorum," a chronicle of the world printed in 1475.
