Rocori H.S. Marks 10-Year Anniversary Of Shootings
Students and staff at Rocori High School are marking the tenth anniversary of a fatal school shooting in a low-key manner at the request of families involved.
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Students and staff at Rocori High School are marking the tenth anniversary of a fatal school shooting in a low-key manner at the request of families involved.
Minnesotans know that late-night talk show host David Letterman is known for his top 10 lists. After all, Kirby Puckett once delivered one. Once again, Letterman brought some of that regional humor to the Minnesota Business Partnership dinner.
TCF Bank customers have the most to complain about, according to a new consumer study. Research from the Federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau says that the Wayzata-based bank was at the top of the list when it comes to the number of complaints they get.
The Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon is less than two weeks away. Though the presumption is that you need to really loosen the purse strings to buy the appropriate pieces of clothing for running, the truth is that you don't need to spend a lot of money to get the right kind of gear.
Fall is here and so is the season for spooky, scary things. Halloween has taken over Valleyfair in Shakopee. WCCO went behind the scenes of Valley Scare Halloween Haunt, which will be going on every weekend from now through Oct. 27.
It's late September—time for Oktoberfest. Minnesota might have a reputation for a Scandinavian heritage, but Germans had a hand in settling our state too. Things are already underway for Wabasha's SeptOberfest, which began earlier this month and runs through Oct. 27.
One person was killed Monday night after a car rear-ended a Metro Transit bus in the north Twin Cities metro, according to the Anoka County Sheriff's Office. Authorities responded to the area of Highway 65 and 89th Avenue NE in Blaine at about 5:38 p.m. Monday on a report of a three-vehicle crash.
The Vikings are doing their best to help bring a championship to Minnesota any way they can. The struggling football team has purchased 500 Lynx tickets for Game 1 of the Western Conference finals against Phoenix on Thursday night.
In an interview with PBS NewsHour, Kenyan Foreign Minister Amina Mohamad told Margaret Warner about the Minnesota connection with attackers involved in the Kenyan mall attack. Mohamad confirmed that "two or three Americans" and "one Brit" were involved. "From the information we have, [they] are young men about…between maybe 18 and 19…of Somali origin or Arab origin," Mohamad said. "[They] lived in the U.S. in Minnesota and one other place." Members of the Twin Cities' Somali-American community were already concerned when unconfirmed reports of attackers being from Minnesota surfaced on Sunday.
The Movement Minneapolis, a hardcore gym known for intense workouts, is a noisy place at lunchtime. But owner David Dellanave says after the workouts, not much is spoken about lunch. "If you're not hungry, why are you eating?" Dellanave said. Members like Lacy Morgan and Martin Rittenbery skip eating once or twice a week. "I've heard them preaching about it, so I decided to give it a go," Morgan said.
After mortgage banker Alex Stenback of Alerus Mortgage helps people buy a new home, he sells off the mortgage. "We sell everything that we do here," Stenback said. "When we sell them, it's one by one." About 80 percent of home loans are eligible to be sold. Stenback says it can happen for a couple of reasons. "One is there is $10 trillion in outstanding mortgages right now in the country and there's simply not enough deposits in all the banks to make that many mortgages," he said.
More than 20 years and 100 days of testimony have passed in a case that's pitted a brother and sister against some of the most powerful real estate moguls in New Jersey – the Wilf brothers In a hearing Monday, Judge Deanne Wilson decided how much money the Wilfs had to pay for defrauding former business partners in an apartment deal in the 1980s. Wilson said the plaintiffs - Ada Reichmann and her brother, Josef Halpern - deserve $36 million in punitive damages. Halpern's attorney says his client client's decades-long dispute with the Wilfs has taken a toll on his health.
The Minneapolis Police Department said their Twitter account had been hacked Monday evening after it offered the department's 2,382 followers a couple of weight loss links.
Minnesota is preparing to sell nearly $500 million in bonds to cover the state's share of the Vikings stadium facility. It's looking for financial institutions to buy the bonds for the stadium construction, which is scheduled to start in November. The $498 million in loans will cover the State's and the Minneapolis' share of stadium construction. The Vikings are putting up the rest of the $477 million for the project, which will total $975 million.
Minneapolis Police will conduct a calibration test of its ShotSpotter technology Monday night in two precincts. According to police, testing will occur in the Folwell and Central neighborhoods, respectively in the 4th and 3rd precincts. The Folwell testing starts at 7 p.m., and the Central testing starts at 8:15 p.m. In each test, 25-50 shots will be fired for calibration purposes. Guns will be fired by officers in to a bullet trapping system, which safely absorbs bullets fired at close range.
