Mykia Carpenter Hears Own Voice Again After Stray Bullet Pierces Throat: 'I'm Not Letting It Stop Me'
"I started crying because they said it was a possibility I could never speak again, but it was another miracle," Mykia Carpenter said.
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"I started crying because they said it was a possibility I could never speak again, but it was another miracle," Mykia Carpenter said.
Police say a man was shot dead outside a Brooklyn Center gas station late Wednesday morning.
Days before the start of his trial, charges have been dropped against a man accused of murdering a toddler during a gun battle in north Minneapolis in 2016.
Gov. Tim Walz announced Wednesday that $15 million more in federal funding from the American Rescue Plan will go toward helping emergency shelters in Minnesota, specifically for upgrades to prevent COVID-19 outbreaks in the homeless population.
Historically Black colleges and universities are seeing record enrollment numbers this year.
Flames destroyed Sacred Heart of Jesus Polish National Catholic Church in northeast Minneapolis last spring. It was the only church of its kind left in the state and now, after months of investigation, it's officially a criminal case.
Brooklyn Center is looking to change policing in the community and a revamped policy implemented this week targets low-level offenses by issuing a citation and letting a person go instead of arrest.
"Being a firefighter, especially in a large metropolitan area, we're used to working under pressure," Edwards said. "I'm used to working with different people, different crews, getting a task done no matter who you're working with."
Nearly 200 health care workers are suing their employers and the federal government over imminent vaccine mandates that they claim violate their rights.
Enbridge announced Wednesday that construction on the upgrade of its Line 3 crude oil pipeline across Minnesota is "substantially complete" and that the company will start filling it with oil later this week.
According to the Beltrami County Sheriff's Office residents have received numerous reports of property fraud recently.
A 23-year-old Twin Cities man is charged with murder after he allegedly stabbed the mother of his infant child to death and dragged her body into an apartment dumpster.
Fitchburg Police Lt. Edward Hartwick said the girl was shot in a residential neighborhood about 9:30 p.m. and died at a local hospital.
St. Cloud Police are searching for a driver that fled the scene of a multiple-vehicle car crash by foot on Wednesday morning.
St. Paul Police say that the woman reportedly killed by her husband early Tuesday has been identified as 41-year-old Caitlin Aldridge. Police say that charges against her husband are expected later Wednesday.
