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A new micro-distillery in Waconia is hoping to make a name for itself in Minnesota's growing craft distillery industry. J. Carver Distillery sent its first shipment of gin and vodka to Twin Cities liquor stores last week.
The boating season has pretty much ended on Lake Minnetonka, but to one group of anglers what they did Friday will pay off next summer. They're with the Westonka Walleye Program, a private effort to improve walleye fishing close to home.
Halloween is always a busy night in downtown Minneapolis, and it's even busier when it falls on a Friday night. Many downtown bars are predicting this will be their busiest night of the entire year. As co-owner of Gluek's Restaurant and Bar, Linda Rae Holcomb knows that Halloween on Friday means big business.
A juvenile who crashed his ATV was found unresponsive Thursday in Stearns County.
A stove top fire, which consumed the cabinet and crawled up the wall of a blind St. Paul man's apartment, was extinguished by a single fire sprinkler.
The jockeying is intensifying for two groups hoping to land a Major League Soccer franchise in Minnesota.
Minnesota election officials have accepted more than 125,000 absentee ballots, a drastic increase from this point in the last midterm election.
A convicted felon and his wife are accused of conspiring to kill a River Falls police officer and threatening to harm a St. Croix County judge. Police and sheriff's deputies arrested Kelly Kloss earlier this month at his River Falls home. He had been a fugitive from Marathon County for 10 months where he was jailed on nine drunken driving violations.
A group protesting the Washington Redskins team name says 5,000 people will rally outside TCF Bank Stadium this Sunday for the Vikings game.
A 17-year-old female from Shakopee has been charged in a July crash in Eagan that caused serious injuries to a 15-month old child and left two others hurt, according to the Dakota County Attorney's Office. The female was charged with one felony count of criminal vehicular operation involving gross negligence and one misdemeanor count of careless driving in connection with the July 17 crash.
Every week, Mike Augustyniak picks a new cocktail recipe from a local mixologist. This week he's learning about rum with a chocolaty concoction from La Belle Vie in Minneapolis.
Republican Secretary of State hopeful Dan Severson is suggesting his website was hacked for political reasons. Severson's campaign website crashed earlier this week. At news conference in St. Paul Friday, he said an early investigation shows it was breached by outsiders but they haven't identified who did it.
This weekend, everyone is going to get the opportunity to take an extra hour of sleep. As the saying goes, "fall back, spring forward." Daylight saving time ends at 2 a.m. this Sunday, so don't forget to turn those clocks back.
The Minnesota Wild is getting ready to kick off its annual "Movember" campaign starting Nov. 1. It's a campaign where men both young and old give their beards and mustaches a clean shave to start the month, then let it grow throughout November while raising money and awareness for prostate cancer research.
It's Halloween, which means it's finally time for you and the kids to go trick-or-treating. Our WCCO This Morning reporter, Ali Lucia, found one Haunted House in Richfield that's giving away treats with a twist.
