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A GOP challenger is preparing for a second crack at U.S. Rep Rick Nolan. Businessman Stewart Mills lost Minnesota's 8th Congressional District to Nolan last year by less than 2 percentage points. Their race was one of the most expensive contests in the country.
Columbia Heights police are searching for the armed intruder who followed an elderly man into his home, then robbed and shot him. It happened around 9:30 p.m. Tuesday evening, as the 76-year old widower was bringing groceries in from his car that was parked in his driveway.
A Wisconsin man faces five criminal charges in the death of a mother and her daughter. The badly beaten bodies of Courtney Bradford and her 10-year-old daughter, Jasmine, were discovered in their New Richmond home earlier this month.
Pope Francis officially began his first U.S. tour Wednesday morning with a visit to the White House and a meeting with President Obama.
Fourteen men are accused of being involved in a prostitution ring after responding to ads by undercover officers who posed as minors to engage in sex, according to charges filed in Washington County Court.
A Bloomington doctor will be in court Thursday, charged with taking money from Medicare and Medicaid.
Officials with the Regions Hospital Foundation said Wednesday they've accepted a $50,000 bid on one of two bottles of Bowmore Whisky from "The Queen's Cask."
The Ho-Chunk Nation has voted to change the rules on using marijuana on its tribal lands. Ho-Chunk announced Saturday that its General Council voted to reverse a policy that made the use and sale of marijuana on tribal lands illegal.
A driver was not seriously hurt after his vehicle lost control and plunged into a holding pond near Eagan Wednesday afternoon, according to the Minnesota State Patrol. Authorities responded to the accident at about 12:10 p.m. on northbound Highway 77 at Highway 13.
Populations of invasive, fish-killing sea lampreys have fallen to their lowest point in decades across the Great Lakes, showing that control measures costing millions of dollars a year are paying off, officials said Wednesday. Lamprey numbers have reached a 30-year low in Lake Huron and a 20-year low in Lake Michigan, according to the Great Lakes Fishery Commission, a U.S.-Canadian organization. Numbers also are down significantly in the other lakes.
A state panel next week kicks off six days of hearings on how to spend $46 million in state lottery money and related funds on environmental, conservation and other projects.
Almost three times as much money as state grant funding available is being sought by Minnesota communities seeking to expand broadband Internet infrastructure.
Minneapolis has again passed the $1 billion mark for approved construction in 2015, the city announced Wednesday.
Famous Dave's is rolling out a brand new brisket. The 120, industry term for a full -sized, cut is smoked for 14 hours with more hickory logs to create a stronger, more tender beef.
Pope Francis praised American bishops Wednesday for their "generous commitment'" to helping victims of clergy sex abuse, drawing an angry rebuke from advocates who said the bishops acted only under the threat of hundreds of lawsuits. Addressing church leaders in a prayer service at the Washington cathedral, Francis said they had faced the crisis "without fear of self-criticism and at the cost of mortification and great sacrifice."
