Como Zoo Giddy Over 2 Pregnant Gorillas
Como Zookeepers have some good news to share. They say not one, but two of the female gorillas are expecting. They say gorillas Alice and Dara have both tested positive on pregnancy tests.
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Como Zookeepers have some good news to share. They say not one, but two of the female gorillas are expecting. They say gorillas Alice and Dara have both tested positive on pregnancy tests.
Police are searching for a St. Anthony man who has gone missing nearly a year after his son was killed by police. Fifty-six-year-old Todd Hoffstrom was last seen at his home on Sept. 29.
New building codes in Minnesota will require sprinklers in homes over 4.500 square feet.
As the weather turns cooler, we're all spending more time indoors -- including the critters we'd rather keep outdoors. Mice are working their way into homes around the metro. It's so bad, one company says their calls are up 35 percent over years past.
The Dallas Ebola case is leading to widespread concern in the 30,000-strong Twin Cities Liberian community -- the largest outside of Africa. The widow of the first American citizen to die of Ebola, who lives in Coon Rapids, picked up a donation of cleaning supplies for Liberia at St. Cloud State University Monday.
A national foundation that provides scholarships to military families now has a chapter in Minnesota.
Minneapolis police say they are investigating the deaths of a man and woman in north Minneapolis Monday afternoon. At 3:50 p.m., police officers responded to an address on the 5200 block of James Avenue North. There, they found the deceased bodies of a man and woman.
Sometimes the scariest thing about Halloween isn't Halloween at all. It's the cost of those costumes. Americans will spend about $7.5 billion on tricks and treats, according to the National Retail Federation (NRF). Most people will spend around $78, with most of it going towards a costume.
The Supreme Court cleared the way Monday for an immediate expansion of same-sex marriage by unexpectedly and tersely turning away appeals from five states seeking to prohibit gay and lesbian unions. The court's order effectively makes gay marriage legal in 30 states.
Police in Moorhead, Minnesota are asking for the public's help in identifying the body of a man found in the Red River last week. The body was spotted by a boater on Monday, Sept. 29, and later recovered by the Moorhead Fire Department under the train bridge near Memorial Park.
Local and federal law enforcement credit a cooperative effort for busting a Chicago-based drug gang that made ordering a bag of heroin as simple as placing a phone call. "This was a 24-hour-a-day, retail-sales heroin operation," said United States Attorney Andy Luger. "The way this would work is you would call one of two different phone numbers that were known as dispatch phone numbers -- almost like you were calling a cab or you were ordering food."
Bemidji police are investigating the death of a woman who they say was found dead early Saturday morning. On Oct. 4 at 6:08 a.m., Bemidji police, along with an ambulance, responded to the report of a possibly deceased person on the 500 block of Paul Bunyan Drive South. When they arrived, the woman was found dead.
A 27-year-old tennis coach at Convent of the Visitation School in Mendota Heights, Minn., is accused of having a sexual relationship with a 16-year-old student, according to a criminal complaint.
Drivers on Interstate 35E will experience some delays Monday night and early Tuesday morning, according to Minnesota Department of Transportation. Left and center lanes of I-35E will be closed in both directions beginning Monday night at 11 p.m.
Republican Senate candidate Mike McFadden is pressing a proposal to strip passports from American recruits to the Islamic State group, but says that won't mean those people lose their U.S. citizenship altogether. McFadden gave additional details Monday about his anti-terror approach. He also says job-training programs and grants to law enforcement could help would-be recruits from heading abroad in the first place. He's not saying how much more the government should spend on those things.
