Help Sought Finding Runaway Vulnerable Adult In St. Paul
Alyssa Marie Leonard, 22, ran away from a worker at the HealthPartners urgent care facility on Como Avenue near Eustis Street. It's unknown which direction she headed.
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Alyssa Marie Leonard, 22, ran away from a worker at the HealthPartners urgent care facility on Como Avenue near Eustis Street. It's unknown which direction she headed.
The Wayzata Police Department is issuing a warning to keep valuables, gifts and personal items out of sight after receiving several reports this week of tampering and thefts from motor vehicles.
An armed individual was shot and killed Wednesday during a struggle with police following a traffic stop near the intersection of 30th Street Northwest and Ridgeway Avenue in Bemidji.
Another sloppy weekend snowstorm appears ready to blow over the Midwest, and this time it doesn't look like it'll miss Minnesota.
WCCO-TV Meteorologist Chris Shaffer says the light snow storm that kicked off Wednesday afternoon will be gone by Thursday morning's commute. But despite low snow totals, the system wreaked havoc on Minnesota roads.
The only survivor of a Girl Scout tragedy is home Wednesday night. Ten-year-old Madalyn Zwiefelhofer's mother announced on Facebook that she got out of the hospital the day before Thanksgiving. A driver hit Zwiefelhofer, three other troop members and a mother as they picked up trash along a highway in Wisconsin earlier this month. None of the others survived.
The National Climate Assessment predicts devastating consequences if nothing is done about climate change. Minnesota's headline: "Much Hotter Summers, Much Warmer Winters." The assessment predicts a future Minnesota that doesn't look familiar.
Southdale came first in 1956, followed by what used to be Brookdale Center in 1962. Rosedale was the third in the family in 1969 and Ridgedale came last in 1974.
A popular Twin Cities musician is doing something that seemed impossible just a few weeks ago. Aaron "Hix" Lee spent nearly a month in the hospital after a robber shot him in the stomach northeast Minneapolis. Officers arrested the robbers last month. Hix returned to the stage Wednesday night at Mortimer's in Minneapolis Wednesday night.
The Minnesota Department of Transportation can't change people's driving habits, but they do have a special system in place to help ensure your car doesn't end up in the ditch. "We have several bridges in the metro area that have anti-icing systems on them," said MnDOT Communications Director Kevin Gutknecht. One of those bridges is Interstate 35-E over the Mississippi River. A system detects the weather and sprays out a chemical to stop the formation of ice.
Prosecutors charged a central Minnesota man with a gross misdemeanor Wednesday but not a hate crime for allegedly having his teenage son dump bloody deer carcasses on the hoods of two cars owned by Somali Minnesotans. The Stearns County Attorney's office charged 62-year-old Daniel Dorian Knowlen of St. Cloud with contributing to the delinquency of a child. The charge carries a maximum sentence of a year in jail and a $3,000 fine.
State officials say a police officer shot and killed a man who had grabbed another man standing on a sidewalk in northeastern Minnesota. The Bureau of Criminal Apprehension on Wednesday identified the man who was killed as 41-year-old J. Scot Alan Widmark of Virginia, Minnesota. The BCA says shortly before 5 p.m. Tuesday, a woman called 911 to report that Widmark approached her car and demanded she get out.
Minneapolis officials are stepping up efforts to get residents to leave a large homeless camp as cold weather sets in. Crews from the Minneapolis Fire Department set up a heated army tent Wednesday across the street from the encampment. The tent will serve as a dining hall and meeting space for some 200 people still living at the camp in south Minneapolis.
Authorities have made an arrest in an apparent hunting accident that killed a former police chief in northwestern Minnesota earlier this month. The Becker County Sheriff's Office and White Earth Tribal police arrested a 54-year-old rural Ogema man in the Nov. 10 shooting death of 53-year-old Jay Clayton Nelson. Nelson was former police chief of Lake Park, Minnesota.
In a Veterans of Foreign Wars hall, spilling over with guests, 95-year-old Bob Webber was at the center of attention. "I was in the mortar platoon, I done everything," Webber explained. He was reminiscing about his service during World War II when he served as a paratrooper in the 517th Parachute Infantry Regiment.
