State Patrol Targeting Commercial Vehicles This Weekend

Expect more buses and trucks to be pulled over by police this weekend. The State Patrol is increasing its commercial vehicle enforcement through the next week, targeting drivers for seat belt violations, roadside inspections and other types of regulatory compliance. Troopers want the extra enforcement to remind all drivers about safely sharing the road. That means stay visible, since large trucks have blinds spots where a car disappears from the view of the truck driver.

• Oct 18, 2013

Twin Cities Hatching With Hope For Backyard Chickens

These days it doesn't seem to matter. Just because you live in a city doesn't mean you can't have the perks of a farm life. People all over the Twin Cities metro are are getting eggs from their own backyards. But one local town has landed on the fence over it all.

• Oct 18, 2013

Sheriff ID's Boy, 13, Hit And Killed By Car In Isanti County

A 13-year-old boy from Cambridge was killed Thursday after getting hit by a car while riding his bike near the Cambridge Airport, according to the Isanti County Sheriff's Office. Authorities identified the victim Friday as Colin Nathaniel Larson.

• Oct 18, 2013

Movie Blog: 'Trials of Muhammad Ali' & 'After Tiller' Reviewed

There are two ways of looking at the great boxer. One has only to do with us, the American public; and the other has to do with him: the man, the fighter, the political and spiritual figure. Siegel's film takes the latter approach, showing that the heavyweight champion's most grueling fights weren't ever in the ring.

• Oct 18, 2013

Charges: Minn. Woman Operated Day Care While Drunk

A Moorhead woman is accused of being drunk while caring for children at a day care she operates in her home. Fifty-four-year-old Jayne Cote is charged with four gross misdemeanor counts of neglect or endangerment of a child. Clay County Attorney Brian Melton says when police performed a welfare check at the day care on Oct. 2, Cote's blood-alcohol level was 0.18 percent. That's more than twice Minnesota's legal limit for driving of 0.08 percent.

• Oct 18, 2013

Police Identify 2 Suspects In Stearns Co. Shooting

The two people arrested after a 33-year-old man was shot in St. Augusta, Minn. earlier this week have been identified. The Stearns County Sheriff's Office says 30-year-old Erik Magnuson and 21-year-old Jerod Jakel went to the residence to collect money owed to them.

• Oct 18, 2013

Petters Fundraiser Vennes Sentenced To 15 Years In Prison

Frank Elroy Vennes Jr. was sentenced to 180 months in prison on Friday, in connection with fraudulently raising money through hedge funds for investment in Petters Company. Vennes was a long-time associate of Thomas J. Petters, the Minnesota businessman convicted in 2009 of orchestrating a $3.65 billion Ponzi scheme.

• Oct 18, 2013

Police: 2 Juveniles Arrested For Theft & Possibly Creating An Explosive Device

Elk River police have arrested two juveniles after they believe the duo was involved in burglary, theft and even possibly creating a homemade explosive device. According to sheriff Joel Brott, investigators observed one juvenile leave the residence in a car, which was later determined to be stolen.

• Oct 18, 2013

Cops: 2 Men Arrested In Connection With St. Augusta Shooting

Police have arrested and charged two men with first-degree assault after a St. Augusta victim was shot in the victim's home earlier this week. The Stearns County Sheriff's Office said on Wednesday, Erik Magnuson, 30, of St. Cloud, and 21-year-old Jerod Jakel, of Sauk Rapids, entered a home on the 23000 block of 69th Avenue in St. Augusta.

• Oct 18, 2013

Movie Blog: Creepy 'Carrie' Gets A Pointless Remake

Brian De Palma's 1976 version of Stephen King's Carrie is not just one of the greatest horror movies ever made. It's also one of the most empathetic. So the question then becomes: Why? Why would you ever think you could top that benchmark?

• Oct 18, 2013

Wander Minnesota: Not-So-Scary Halloween Events

Halloween is almost here. Have you checked out the metro's haunted houses? There are tons of scary things to do for older Halloween fans. But where you can take the little, more easily scared ones?

• Oct 18, 2013

Prison Health Care Provider Defends Services

The national company that has been replaced as the health care provider to Minnesota's 9,000 prison inmates is defending its services. Corizon Health says the state Department of Corrections has thanked the company for "exceptional service over the last 16 years." DOC severed ties with Corizon following staff complaints of substandard care and legal action against the company. Corizon was replaced by St. Louis-based Centurion Managed Care, a Fortune 500 health care company that manages medical care under public contracts in several states.

• Oct 18, 2013

Good Question Bonus: Vikings' Super Bowl History, Street Signs & Liver Spots

Here are answers to the following: How long has it been since the Vikings have won a Super Bowl game? What does the state do with the street signs after it replaces them? Why do we call liver spots, liver spots?

• Oct 18, 2013

Teen Trio Indicted For West St. Paul Shooting Death

Three teenagers were indicted Friday in connection with the West. St. Paul shooting death of 31-year-old Luis David Reyes-Galvan on Jan. 11, 2013, according to Dakota County Attorney James Backstrom.

• Oct 18, 2013

Klobuchar Thinks Congress Will Pass Farm Bill

As U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar helped volunteers at the Second Harvest Heartland warehouse in Golden Valley, she said she is optimistic that Congress will pass a new long-term farm bill this year. That would be welcome news to Second Harvest CEO Rob Zeaske.

• Oct 18, 2013

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