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Texas Sen. Ted Cruz's venture outside the early-voting states in the Republican presidential nominating contest is bringing him to Minnesota. Cruz, who has risen steadily among GOP hopefuls, was holding a rally Thursday on Harriet Island.
A new report released Thursday shows disparities in arrests on metro transit between people of color and whites. The report shows that when police encounter people who are found to be first-time fare evaders, black adults are 26 percent more likely to be cited rather than warned when compared with white adults.
While there are still two weeks left in the year, most of the weather data is already in the books for 2015. What's clear is that it was a very warm year -- not just here in the upper Midwest, but across the entire globe -- and that warmth will likely set some records.
A long-time Twin Cities bank employee is facing charges she stole more than $600,000 from a customer. Cynthia Van DuSartz was a manager at Anchor Bank in West St. Paul, where she had worked for nearly 30 years.
While it might have felt cold on Thursday, the long stretch of mild temperatures and no snow have had winter retailers feeling the heat to make up for lagging sales.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission says one of the two reactors at Xcel Energy's Prairie Island nuclear plant shut down automatically after a problem developed in the unit's turbine.
As the holiday season nears its end, the Salvation Army says donations to the organization this weekend will be tripled.
An agreement has been reached that will allow a German-operated cargo ship to leave a Lake Superior port in Minnesota where it was detained for more than a month due to alleged environmental violations, the U.S. Coast Guard said Thursday.
Gov. Mark Dayton and top Minnesota lawmakers are meeting to discuss a possible special session to help laid-off steelworkers. The governor, House Speaker Kurt Daudt and Majority Leader Tom Bakk met for an hour.
The American Civil Liberties Union says it filed a lawsuit Thursday against the Minnesota Department of Human Services, challenging the ban on transition-related surgeries for transgender people on Medical Assistance and MinnesotaCare.
Black Lives Matter will return to Mall of America next week unless they "get #Justice4Jamar", group organizers announced Thursday.
Temperatures in Minnesota have begun to fall to winter-like levels, but ice rinks will remain closed in Minneapolis for a least a while longer.
The new "Star Wars" may not premiere until 7 p.m. Thursday, but some locals have been at the theatre since 10 p.m. Wednesday. These fans are in the midst of a marathon, watching every Star Wars ever made leading up to the big show Thursday night.
One of the most popular artists in the music world right now, Adele will be performing two shows in St. Paul on July 5-6 to kick off her latest tour. Tickets went on sale at 10 a.m. on the Ticketmaster website, and they were hard to come by for many.
Some parents in the Anoka-Hennepin School District are questioning a choir teacher's decision to use a song about Ramadan performed in Arabic at a holiday concert.
