Pride Festival Has Joyous Tone In 2013
This year's Twin Cities Pride Festival was one of joy and celebration for gay rights advocates.
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This year's Twin Cities Pride Festival was one of joy and celebration for gay rights advocates.
Experts say the strawberry crop in Minnesota this year is about two weeks late, but the berries will be delicious. Normally by the Fourth of July, the season is wrapping up, but not this year.
All five Eagan fire stations, including 30 firefighters, responded to a house fire of a home under construction early Sunday morning, according to authorities.
Cigarettes will be much more costly in Minnesota after Sunday. New tobacco taxes kick in Monday. That includes a $1.60 increase in the per-pack tax on cigarettes.
Minneapolis hosts one of the largest Pride weekends in the nation, and roughly a half million people from around the country are expected to celebrate in the Twin Cities this weekend. For the first time, this year's festival in Loring Park includes wedding vendors, and there's talk of holding weddings on site next year. The most popular event is the Pride parade down Hennepin Avenue. Former Vikings Punter Chris Kluwe is this year's grand marshal.
It's a smell that comes with warmer temperatures and increased algae in the water. It's also something you can see: dead fish floating on all the lakes in Minnesota. The experts call it a "fish kill," and it has many wondering is the water safe. Dawn Summers of Minneapolis Park and Recreation says that this is a common occurrence.
A Twin Cities community is searching for solutions to a growing and disturbing problem - the sex trafficking of young girls. Faith leaders, law enforcement and survivors attended a community meeting in Oak Park Heights Saturday. Earlier this month, the FBI ranked Minnesota 13th in the nation for sex trafficking.
In the digital age of email and social media, getting a letter in the mail may take a little longer than, say, getting a text. But no one expects to suddenly receive a postcard dated all the way back to 1945. When Tyler Scouton checked his mailbox on West 9th Street Tuesday, one item - a postcard, to be exact - stood out.
A man was shot early Saturday night in St. Paul and two suspects are on the loose. According to St. Paul Police, a man was found shot at a house on the 600 block Duluth Street. Two suspects fled on foot after the shooting. The victim has been hospitalized.
The Twin Cities is known as a bike friendly area, and now a new service is making it even easier for cyclists on the trails. Roadside service through Triple A will soon be available for bicyclists. Today, there was a kickoff event at the AAA office in St. Louis Park. Visitors got the chance to learn bike safety tips, but more importantly they learned how this new service works.
Last summer almost all political experts predicted Minnesota would pass a Constitutional Amendment banning gay marriage. Not only was that amendment defeated in November, but Minnesota legalized gay marriage last month.
A sizable log jam on Raspberry Island along the Mississippi River has the St. Paul Yacht club concerned as pileup eats away at available slips for boaters. According to Roger Anderson of the club, 28 slips can't be used on the downriver side of the bridge as the spans are covered by the debris. The St. Paul Rowing club also can't use one of their docks, Anderson said.
Police are investigating after a car hit and killed a 79-year-old pedestrian Friday night in front of the St. Croix Casino in Wisconsin. According to the Turtle Lake Police Department, Donald P. Hatalla, of Turtle Lake, died on the scene after a truck driven by 74-year-old Kenneth L. Bonner of Alemna hit him at about 10:16 p.m. Friday.
Every few years a new water sport or water toy comes out that becomes all the rage. Currently, it's all about flyboarding. "It's a board that hooks up to a jet ski," Rodney Jansen said. "It will lift you and propel you into the air."
The newest craze in sports is Pickleball. It's a mash-up between tennis, racquetball, ping-pong and badminton. It's played on a court that's about one-third of the size of a tennis court.
