Omnifest Returns To Minn. Science Museum
The Science Museum of Minnesota will host one of its most popular features starting next month. Omnifest 2014 opens Jan. 9 at the St. Paul museum's William L. McKnight-3M Omnitheater.
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The Science Museum of Minnesota will host one of its most popular features starting next month. Omnifest 2014 opens Jan. 9 at the St. Paul museum's William L. McKnight-3M Omnitheater.
Sara from Bloomington, Katie from Savage and Elisabeth from Owatonna asked: Why do we decorate with lights at Christmas?
A 23-year-old Farmington woman is accused of drunkenly stealing a white limousine in late September after tagging along with a group of men who had hired the limousine to do some late night bar hopping, court documents show.
A 23-year-old Nisswa man died Friday morning after the car he was in veered to avoid stalled traffic and collided with an on-coming van, the State Patrol says.
The city of Minneapolis changed its 911 system in the wake of Minnesota's worst workplace shooting last year. At that time, several panicked callers inside Accent Signage never got through to a dispatcher.
A snowmobiler suffered a broken leg Friday evening in northern Minnesota after he collided with a car while trying to cross a road, officials say.
A 33-year-old Coon Rapids man got a stayed sentence of 15 months in prison Friday for colliding with a 9-year-old bicyclist in June and leaving the boy seriously injured and failing to help at the scene, Anoka County officials say.
A Hennepin County District Court judge decided Friday that the 9-year-old boy who stowed away on a plane to Las Vegas in October should remain in a youth facility. According to the Hennepin County Attorney's office, Friday's hearing was a pre-trial on a Child in Need of Protection and Services (CHIPS) petition, which was filed when the boy returned to Minneapolis in October. The boy's parents were not ready to resolve all of the issues at the proceedings, which led to the scheduling of a trial date.
For more than 30 years, the Dorothy Day Center has helped those who call the streets home. As the homelessness problems grow across the state, the center has reached a breaking point.
A big announcement came Friday on Minnesota's troubled health care exchange. MNsure says it is extending the signup deadline for thousands of Minnesotans who may have had trouble getting on its website.
With 104 lakes and three rivers in Hennepin County alone, Sheriff Rich Stanek says it's a busy time for ice rescues in Minnesota. "Maybe you had subzero temperatures, but you're going to go through," Stanek said. The Hennepin County Sheriff's office responded to 25 rescue calls out on the lakes last winter from people falling through the ice. Three people were killed. "The most important thing is to stay calm," he said.
Potential victims of credit card fraud tied to Target's security breach said they had trouble contacting the discounter through its website and call centers.
Holiday travelers in the Midwest and parts East and South were keeping a leery eye Friday on a band of foul weather stretching across the nation's midsection that was threatening to mar the opening weekend of one of the year's busiest travel periods.
Twenty-eight-year-old Derek Weida lost his right leg after being shot while on patrol in Iraq. "I was thinking, 'There's a good chance I could die out here.' And I obviously came really close," Weida said. He struggled with what to do with his life when he came home, but now he has a plan to help himself, and veterans just like him. Derek loved everything about the military, especially the brothers and sisters he made as part of the 82nd Airborne Division.
Afton Alps has been a family business for the last 50 years. But Reents' family is marking its silver anniversary with change.
