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A man is in custody after an incident in a Woodbury hotel overnight. According to Woodbury Police, officers responded to a call around 9 p.m. Thursday of a man possibly holding a woman against her will in a room in the Country Inn and Suites off Interstate 94 and Century Avenue.
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack will visit Minnesota to discuss efforts to expand trade. Vilsack will meet Friday in St. Paul with officials from the Minnesota AgriGrowth Council and other business leaders to talk about increasing exports as a strategy for creating job opportunities in Minnesota.
Judges in Hennepin County are getting a jump on Valentine's Day love. A dozen judges from the Fourth Judicial District are scheduled to marry 22 couples at no charge at Hennepin County Government Center on Friday, the day before the holiday.
The officers who enforce Minnesota's fish and game rules have an order for ice anglers: Pick up your trash. Conservation officer Bret Grundmeier of Hinckley spends hours each season encouraging anglers to clean up after themselves. He says it's disappointing to find so much trash left behind.
Five apartments in a Mankato house have been evacuated after a blaze that apparently started in a fireplace chimney. One of the building's residents tells The Mankato Free Press he smelled smoke from his third-floor apartment around 8 p.m. Thursday.
The book was a best seller, now the movie takes center stage this weekend. Trailers for "50 Shades of Grey" on YouTube have hit 250 million views. To be sure, the movie is quite the hot ticket this Valentine's Day weekend. Some women are making a girls' night of it, others are taking their honeys.
Eleven kids are OK after quick thinking stopped a runaway school bus Wednesday afternoon in Aitkin County. A sheriff's deputy spotted the bus weaving when the bus driver was having a medical emergency and couldn't pull over. "It was one of those things you don't see every day," Sheriff Scott Turner said.
This Valentine's Day, you'll probably be doing a little smooching. But why do we swap saliva to show someone we love them? Why do we kiss? Good Question.
The Minneapolis Fire Department battled a house fire near Lake Nokomis Thursday afternoon. Crews were called to a structure fire at about 4 p.m. on the 3200 block of East 52nd Street.
A 17-year-old Woodville, Wis., girl died Thursday afternoon when her car went over a guardrail into a ditch.
An 18-month-old baby was found dead, possibly murdered, in a Maplewood home Thursday morning.
A woman is accused of stealing more than $20,000 from a church where she worked in Meeker County. Authorities said 52-year-old Renee Miller took money from various accounts at St. Anthony's Catholic Church in Watkins.
The hefty pay hikes proposed for Gov. Mark Dayton's cabinet were already controversial when the State Senate met on Thursday. But it was Dayton's fellow Democrats who voted to suspend the raises until July 1. "That will give the legislature time I think to put the kind of thoughtful review into the study and the salary to make sure that it indeed is warranted," Sen. Tom Bakk said.
A movie coming out this Valentine's weekend has a lot of people talking, and whispering."50 Shades of Grey" is based on a book series about a sexual relationship between a man and woman. One local group is taking a national stand against the film. The Minnesota Child Protection League has turned their website into a pledge site.
More than 60 percent of Minnesota has less than two inches of snow cover. That's causing climatologists to keep a close watch.
