Dayton: Minn. Won't Extend Insurance Coverage
Gov. Mark Dayton announced Monday that Minnesota will not allow people to keep existing insurance plans for another year, despite President Barack Obama's plan to allow it.
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Gov. Mark Dayton announced Monday that Minnesota will not allow people to keep existing insurance plans for another year, despite President Barack Obama's plan to allow it.
One of Minnesota's wolf hunting zones has been closed, the Department of Natural Resources says. On Monday, the DNR's website said the northeastern wolf hunting zone is now closed. The zone's target harvest was listed at 33 wolves; hunters have killed 31. Thirteen of those harvested were killed on the hunt's opening weekend.
Minnesota's largest private insurance companies are opposing President Barack Obama's plan to let people keep existing insurance for at least a year under his health care law.
A couple that has been accused in a rash of recent musical instrument thefts from local colleges is now also charged with stealing things from real estate open houses. Police arrested Michael Joseph Lippert and Nicole Marie Korolchuk last week after word went out that the two were wanted for a string of musical instrument thefts.
A South St. Paul man told investigators that he "may have slapped some sense" into his sister last week after he allegedly her and held her down, court documents say.
A court ruling stripping a Minnesota couple of parental rights of their malnourished child has been upheld.
A 36-year-old Anoka man is accused of breaking into the apartment next door and taking a young girl's underwear. According to the criminal complaint, the girl told police she discovered the man standing in the middle of her apartment hallway on Nov. 7.
A 37-year-old woman is charged with assault after authorities say she ran her husband's new girlfriend off the road and beat her with an aluminum bat. Beatriz Fernandez, of Lakeville, has been charged with two counts of second-degree assault in the Nov. 12 incident.
A 63-year-old Richfield man is dead after being struck by a vehicle early Sunday evening, according to Richfield Police.
Next week, some lucky Minnesota turkeys will be heading to the White House. John Burkel of Badger in Northern Minnesota raised the birds. He's going to pick two of them to send to President Obama, to be pardoned the day before Thanksgiving.
Need some money advice? How about some from business icon Warren Buffett? One of the most successful investors of our time is sharing a secret. He banking on the stock of a Minnesota company.
Chances are you've got an award-winning restaurant or dish right outside your back door, and many of them were honored Sunday night. The third annual Charlie Awards were held at the Pantages Theater in Minneapolis.
A Twin Cities company has quickly grown from the owners' New Brighton home to an online retailer to a retail store at Mall of America. The New Brighton-based business Sigma Beauty was started online by a veterinarian and an engineer, and now they have claim $25 million in annual sales.
Minnesotans are throwing away more food and more plastic these days. And that's discouraging to officials who say valuable resources are being wasted that could create jobs if they were recycled instead.
As a powerful tornado bore down on their Illinois farmhouse, Curt Zehr's wife and adult son didn't have time to do anything but scramble down the stairs into their basement. Uninjured, the pair looked out moments later to find the house gone and the sun out and "right on top" of them, Zehr said.
