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Five Minnesota candidates for governor have gathered at the annual FarmFest trade show, where they say they'd help farmers by promoting trade and easing environmental regulations. The candidates Tuesday included four Republicans who square off in a primary next week.
Federal officials hope to clear enough silt and sand from the Mississippi River so barge traffic can resume downstream this weekend. Commercial traffic on the upper Mississippi has been choked off for weeks by large sediment deposits left behind by flooding.
Authorities in the north metro are asking the public's help in finding two children believed to be with a dangerous relative. Brooklyn Center Police say they are trying to find 17-year-old Shatearra Nash and her daughter, 9-month-old Maggie Nash.
An estimated 20,000 gallons of sewage ended up in the Rum River in what's being called a minor spill, the City of Cambridge announced Tuesday. According to the city's utilities department director Todd Schwab, on Monday at 6:35 p.m., the Cambridge Wastewater Treatment Facility was notified by the Isanti County Dispatch Office that a boater reported seeing liquid coming from a manhole cover and flowing into the Rum River.
The Army Corp of Engineers has granted a waiver allowing a Benson petroleum company to move forward with a project designed to speed up a propane-infrastructure project. The waiver on behalf of Dooley Petroleum was requested by U.S. Sens. Amy Klobuchar and Al Franken and U.S. Rep. Collin Peterson
The state of Minnesota says it has sold $85.4 million in bonds to pay for a new Senate office building. Minnesota Management and Budget announced the bond sale Tuesday. State officials said earlier they would start on the four-story building near the Capitol within a few days of the sale.
A former Wisconsin police officer killed a 19-year-old college student from Oregon during a choking game that went too far, hid her body in a suitcase she brought to their sex date and then kept her body in his refrigerator for months, according to a criminal complaint filed Tuesday.
Dr. Tom Cairns of Bloomington had Ebola before it even had a name. Cairns was working as a medical missionary in the 1970s and remembers doing an autopsy where he nicked his glove with his scalpel. Two weeks later, the illness took over his body.
Two people were pulled from a Crow Wing County lake Friday night after the ultralight plane they were riding in crashed. According to the Crow Wing County Sheriff's Office, the crash happened at about 7:30 p.m. in Agate Lake in Deerwood, Minn.
Over the next two days, thousands of people are expected to turn out to pay their last respects to the Mendota Heights Police Officer killed in the line of duty nearly a week ago.
With their first preseason game on Friday at TCF Bank Stadium, the Minnesota Vikings are reminding fans of the NFL's policy on bag sizes and types allowed in the stadium. Officials said the league-wide policy will be in effect for the second straight year, and it's designed to provide a safer fan experience with quicker fan entry into stadiums.
Tuesday is National Night Out, an annual event where residents in communities across the nation get together and talk crime prevention as well as forming partnerships with police. Many communities have events planned, and in Brooklyn Park they're using the night to unveil a new way for police to communicate with residents.
A Twin Cities dog trainer is out to change the way we train our dogs. Her company, DogSense Unleashed, promises easy step-by-step training anytime, anywhere.
Target is lowering its forecast for its second quarter because of costs related to a massive data breach and the repayment of debt.
An Arizona man has pleaded guilty in a Wisconsin murder two weeks before a jury trial was scheduled to begin. Juan Padilla or Fort Mohave, Arizona, changed his plea Monday to guilty of first-degree intentional homicide.
