Woman, 24, Pleads Guilty To Criminal Vehicular Homicide
A 24-year-old Brainerd woman admitted Monday to driving under the influence of alcohol last October when she hit and killed a bicyclist, the Cass County Attorney's Office says.
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A 24-year-old Brainerd woman admitted Monday to driving under the influence of alcohol last October when she hit and killed a bicyclist, the Cass County Attorney's Office says.
Brace yourself, ladies and gentlemen. Bruno Mars is heading back to the Xcel Energy Center as part of his blockbuster "Moonshine Jungle World Tour." On June 21, the GRAMMY award -winning singer will be joined by special guest, Aloe Blacc.
I have to admit that I have not yet seen the movie that just topped the box office charts for the last two weeks running and is well on its way to being 2013's first $100 million club honoree. Maybe I'll redress that in the next week, maybe I'll instead opt for the cold-weather comfort of awesome repertory and specialized programming.
Kate DiCamillo's "Flora & Ulysses," a comic superhero tale featuring a deadly vacuum cleaner and a mighty squirrel, has won the John Newbery Medal for the year's best work of children's literature. Brian Floca won the Randolph Caldecott Medal for his illustrations in "Locomotive," a story of the early years of train travel that Floca also wrote.
Minnesota political and business leaders say the cold-weather state would be ideally suited to host the 2018 Super Bowl in the Vikings' new climate-controlled indoor stadium. Gov. Mark Dayton and a team of business and community leaders launched Minnesota's bid on Monday while area temperatures were below zero.
About 100,000 residential customers in North Dakota, Minnesota and Wisconsin were able to crank their thermostats back above 60 degrees Monday after a utility lifted its appeal for natural gas conservation following a weekend explosion in Canada that knocked out three pipelines.
Another round of subzero temperatures, high winds and drifting snow forced most Minnesota schools to stay closed Monday, with Minneapolis and St. Paul public schools already canceling classes for Tuesday.
Meteorologist Mike Augustyniak once again traded a few barbs with the morning crew from KNX 1070 NEWSRADIO in southern California on Monday morning. The last time Augustyniak talked with Dick Helton and the rest of them was during our blisteringly cold Christmas Eve.
State agencies were monitoring natural gas supplies in the eastern part of North Dakota Monday following a pipeline explosion over the weekend in the neighboring Canadian province of Manitoba.
Artists participating in the St. Paul Winter Carnival's snow sculpture and ice-carving competitions didn't have to worry about a shortage of materials this year. The winners were announced over the weekend.
Two men have been arrested in a homicide on Van Buren Avenue in St. Paul Sunday, according to St. Paul Police.
The St. Paul Winter Carnival medallion has been located. A tweet from the Pioneer Press confirmed this year's hunt is now officially over, and that the medallion was located in Como Park.
The Minnesota Department of Transportation is reopening some major roadways closed earlier because of blowing and drifting snow. Interstate 90 west of Albert Lea reopened Monday morning after snowplows cleared the lanes and winds subsided.
Hair salon operator Regis said Monday that its fiscal second-quarter loss widened, hindered in part by a drop in a key sales barometer, charges and increased expenses. Regis said its results were also hurt by higher labor costs, increased health insurance costs and increased depreciation expense.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the White House Council on Environmental Quality are hosting a public meeting in Bloomington to discuss options for preventing the spread of Asian carp and other invasive species between the Great Lakes and Mississippi River basins.
