Macalester Professor Wins Booker Prize For Fiction

Marlon James became the first Jamaican winner of the prestigious Booker Prize for fiction Tuesday with a vivid, violent, exuberant and expletive-laden novel based on the attempted assassination of Bob Marley. Michael Wood, chairman of the judging panel, said "A Brief History of Seven Killings" was "the most exciting book on the list" and a novel full of the "sheer pleasure" of language. He said it had been the unanimous choice of the five judges.

• Oct 13, 2015

Gov. Dayton Leads Discussion On St. Cloud Race Relations

People gathered in St. Cloud Tuesday to have an honest conversation about race. About 150 people -- including Gov. Mark Dayton, the mayor of St. Cloud and the city's police chief -- were on hand at the Great River Regional Library to help lead the conversation.

• Oct 13, 2015

Coon Rapids To Open Transitional Housing For Homeless Young Adults

It's estimated that in the Anoka-Hennepin School district, more than 500 of the county's youth spend their nights without a secure place to call home.

• Oct 13, 2015

Stewart Mills Announces 2nd Run For Minnesota's 8th District

Stewart Mills has officially announced he is in the race for Minnesota's 8th congressional district. Mills ran in 2014, opposite incumbent Democratic congressman Rick Nolan. Although he lost to Nolan, the votes came within 3,600.

• Oct 13, 2015

Embattled Columbia Heights School Board Member Officially Resigns

The Columbia Heights School Board accepted the resignation of a member accused of putting a controversial comment on Facebook. Grant Nichols maintains he did not write the post about the sanitary habits of Muslims, but he did take responsibility for his page.

• Oct 13, 2015

Top U.S. Leaders To Honor Former VP Walter Mondale In Washington

Some of the country's top leaders are set to honor former Vice President Walter Mondale. The event takes place in Washington next week, and will include former President Jimmy Carter and Vice President Joe Biden.

• Oct 13, 2015

In Wake Of Recent Death, Dad Recalls Close Call With Carbon Monoxide

The Hennepin County Sheriff's Department is investigating the death of a second-grader who died of carbon monoxide poisoning while boating.

• Oct 13, 2015

Target Center Unveils Plans For $129M Renovation

Target Center is celebrating 25 years in downtown Minneapolis by giving the city a taste of what's shortly to come. As the venue marked the 25th anniversary of its grand opening, plans were unveiled detailing a planned $129 million renovation project that will include new gathering spaces, clubs, and exteriors.

• Oct 13, 2015

Sheriff: Good Samaritan Saves Driver From Submerged Car In Lonsdale

A Good Samaritan likely saved a man's live Tuesday morning after his vehicle went into a holding pond near Lonsdale, according to the Rice County Sheriff's Office.

• Oct 13, 2015

Free Yoga Coming To North Minneapolis

Take a look around most parts of Minneapolis and it isn't hard to find a yoga studio. But a couple that has been teaching yoga for 15 years says there isn't a single one in north Minneapolis.

• Oct 13, 2015

MN Court Of Appeals: Warrant Needed Before Giving DWI Blood Test

The Minnesota Court of Appeals issued a decision Tuesday declaring that law enforcement must have a warrant before giving a blood test to a suspected impaired driver. The opinion, written by Judge Jill Flaskamp Halbrooks, states that the 2012 subdivision of Minnesota's Driving While Impaired laws that makes it a crime for refusal to submit to a chemical test -- blood, breath or urine -- is unconstitutional.

• Oct 13, 2015

Mpls. Man, 26, Pleads Guilty To Murder In Light Rail Station Stabbing

A 26-year-old Minneapolis man has pleaded guilty to murdering a man last December at the light rail station at Lake and Hiawatha.

• Oct 13, 2015

Minneapolis' Pillsbury Sign Set To Blaze Again

The Pillsbury sign that went dark and was removed will soon be restored to its berth overlooking the Mississippi river. The "Pillsbury's Best Flour" sign was taken down in 2014 while crews worked to restore the Pillsbury A-Mill complex, which is being turned into lofts.

• Oct 13, 2015

Wis. Senate Panel OKs Bills To Strip Planned Parenthood Funding

The state Senate's health committee has approved a pair of bills that would strip Planned Parenthood of federal funding and raise its Medicaid expenses. One measure would require the state to apply for $3.5 million in federal Title X grant money, which currently all goes to Planned Parenthood.

• Oct 13, 2015

Lawsuit Accuses Priest At Elk River Parish Of Prior Abuse

A priest at an Elk River parish and school is being accused of abusing a teen in the 1970s. A lawsuit filed Tuesday alleges the Rev. Antonio Marfori sexually abused a 15-year-old boy in 1978, when Marfori taught at St. Cloud's Cathedral High School.

• Oct 13, 2015

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