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A community is mourning Saturday after two high school students were killed in a car crash in Lakeville. Jake Flynn and Johnny Price were juniors at Lakeville South. They were in a truck with two other students when it rolled Friday afternoon on 225th Street West near Dodd Road.
The parents of an 11-year-old boy who was abducted from a rural central Minnesota road 26 years ago are holding a community meeting in a nearby town that saw its own string of sexual assaults of young boys in the 1980s. Patty and Jerry Wetterling are holding a meeting Sunday night at the high school in Paynesville.
A Minnesota congressman says a push is underway to include language in a catchall spending bill to return responsibility for managing wolf populations in the western Great Lakes region to Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan. Courts have overturned federal efforts to remove the region's wolves from the endangered list. The legislation would bypass the courts.
The Minnesota Opera's training program for young people is holding an alumni concert to celebrate Dale Kruse's final year as music director. After 11 years, Kruse is leaving as Project Opera's music director after this season.
This holiday season I'm publishing the Mike's Mix Holiday Gift Guide, featuring items that I've picked up for my home bar, based on recommendations from the pros I've met. Any home bar or amateur bartender would benefit from any of these items, so be generous! I've posted links where you can purchase them, but be sure to shop around a bit; most are priced at $25 or less, but a few cost up to $50.
It's an eventful show this on WCCO Saturday Morning. Here are some of the topics Mike Augustyniak and Natalie Nyhus talked about, and links for further investigation.
Jessie from Maple Grove wants to know: What happens to zoo animals in the winter? The polar bears and other cold weather animals at St. Paul's Como Zoo do not have a problem being outdoors. But animals that come from warmer climates spend most of the winter indoors. Those animals include primates, such as gorillas and orangutans.
Two Lakeville High School students are dead and two other students are injured after a rollover crash in Lakeville Friday afternoon -- exactly two years to the day that a fellow student was killed on a slippery road. Dakota County Sheriff Tim Leslie said the fatal accident happened at about 3 p.m. on 225th Street West, just west of Dodd Road.
Minnesota's huge budget surplus for 2016 has state lawmakers scrambling to figure out what to do with it. A large part of the surplus will go to a budget reserve, and the rest of it will likely go to be a combination of tax cuts and spending.
Politicians, law enforcement and youth intervention professionals met Friday in the Twin Cities. Those involved say there is a growing number of at-risk youth in the area. They met at the Brooklyn Park Community Center to ask the state legislature for more funding.
The story garnered worldwide attention, a young Minnesota mother's fight to get her son with HIV back.
A vacant parking lot at Hardy's Boats and Bait on Medicine Lake tells a state-wide story. Instead of ice houses, they see golden eyes and mergansers. But ducks are the last thing ice anglers want to see this time of year -- and days like Friday do not help.
All season long, WCCO is shining a light on Minnesota groups that could use your help to make the holiday brighter. The series is called "Trees of Hope."
Police are asking for the public's help to find a missing Madison Lake man. Michael Cook, 38, was last seen at his residence on the day before Thanksgiving.
Gov. Mark Dayton named his human services commissioner to a spot on the Minnesota Court of Appeals on Friday, leaving a vacancy at the top of the state's largest agency. Commissioner Lucinda Jesson was named to one of two vacancies on the Court of Appeals, joining the bench with Tracy Smith, deputy general counsel at the University of Minnesota.
