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Miss Kansas, the tattooed Army sergeant, and the injured Miss Florida, wearing a bejeweled knee brace, were among contestants advancing to the semi-finals of Sunday's Miss America finale in Atlantic City as the pageant returned home to where it all began in 1921.
The Crystal Police Department is investigating after someone put rat poison inside the fenced area of a local dog park.
Every seat was filled in front of the bandshell, on the edge of Lake Harriet. Then, the crowd filled in the grass for rows and rows beyond the seats.
Two bridges that, for now, span the Mississippi River side by side are more than just old and new crossings of the heavily traveled Highway 61 in Hastings. They are symbols of an aggressive push in Minnesota to deal with deteriorating bridges after an eye-opening tragedy.
A man from St. Cloud is in jail tonight accused of killing his 72 year-old mother. Police say Lois Omeara died after being stabbed multiple times. Investigators aren't commenting on a possible motive.
A 13-year-old collared research bear has been shot and killed this weekend, according to the North American Bear Center.
Celebrating a resurgence of racing, Canterbury Park wrapped up one of its most successful seasons in its colorful history. Over the course of 69 days, attendance and handle, which is the amount of money bet on Canterbury races, rose to the highest levels since 1995.
A 61-year-old Belle Plain man is in the hospital after crashing his motorcycle Saturday afternoon, according to the Pierce County Sheriff's Office.
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More Minnesota schools are serving up locally grown foods this year, thanks to farm-to-school initiatives at the state and local levels.
The Blaine Police Department says they found a missing person's body in the afternoon hours of Saturday.
A Twin Cities police department is crediting a phone message with helping them find a missing girl.
Three seizures during three games in two years have Gopher fans like Margaret Swanson wondering if coach Jerry Kill's struggles with epilepsy are too much for the job. "I feel so bad because it seems to be happening a lot," Swanson said. "I wonder what happens in the locker room when he doesn't come in…I'm sure it takes a toll on them a little bit." Dr. Thaddeus Walczak is an epileptologist at the University of Minnesota. He says that although high-stress situations - like football games - could make seizures more likely to occur in someone with epilepsy, that's not a reason to change careers.
A Webster, Wis. man was killed in an accident involving a corn chopper Friday morning, according to the Burnett County Sheriff's office. Authorities received a report at 11:50 a.m. of a man trapped in a corn chopper near the area of County Road N and County Road D in the town of Daniels. Michael J. Herrick, 64, was pronounced dead at the scene. He was from Webster, Wis.
Two people are being treated with non-life-threatening injuries after the motorcycle they were riding on collided with a minivan Saturday near Babbitt, according to the St. Louis County Sheriff's office. At 1:15 p.m., 67-year-old Susan Fetterer of Plymouth attempted to turn on to northbound Highway 21 and collided with a motorcycle. Thirty-five-year-old Dewi Webb, the motorcycle driver, and 36-year-old passenger Tiffany Webb were ejected from the bike on impact.
