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Federal court officers have recommended a sentence of life in prison for a peanut company executive convicted of selling salmonella-tainted food, a move that attorneys on both sides called "unprecedented" for a food-poisoning case. The potential life sentence for former Peanut Corporation of America owner Stewart Parnell was disclosed by prosecutors in a court filing Wednesday.
Minnesota is one of the fastest growing states in the country for insurance fraud, but that could change soon because of tough new laws that go into effect Aug. 1. Last year, the number of staged crashes and fake medical claims in Minnesota rose an alarming 22 percent. That's 3rd in the nation behind Florida and New York.
They are faster than a speeding bullet and more powerful than a locomotive! But these super heroes are not leaping tall buildings. They are climbing the walls to clean the windows at Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota in Minneapolis.
Authorities are on the scene of an apparent car fire at a gas station in the northwest Twin Cities metro Thursday night. Fire crews were called to a Super America gas station just after 5 p.m. on the 4300 block of Peony Lane N. in Plymouth on a report of a car fire.
The 25th anniversary of the Americans With Disabilities Act is being celebrated across the country, and right here in Minnesota. President George Bush signed the Americans With Disabilities Act on July 26, 1990.
Senator Al Franken is joining the ranks of Taylor Swift by taking on one of the country's most powerful companies. He's asking the attorney general to look into the business practices of Apple.
A small town furniture store that was vandalized will stay open thanks to the help of strangers. "I usually don't cry, but when I see all the help we've been getting it gets me very emotional," The Furniture Clinic owner Rick Elkins said.
The non-profit group "Simon Says Give" is hosting a backpack donation drive across the metro through July 31.
A suspect in two recent metro area bank robberies was arrested Thursday afternoon in Blaine.
A 30-year-old Andover man was convicted of four counts of first-degree murder Thursday in the June 2014 burning death of his 55-year-old roommate at their Anoka County residence. A jury spent about two hours deliberating Thursday before Adam John Lilienthal was found guilty in the death of Scott David Yorek.
The mainlines of westbound Interstate 394 will reopen Friday between downtown Minneapolis and Golden Valley -- helping to ease traffic from Minneapolis' Aquatennial events and the Minnesota Twins' series against the New York Yankees. The Minnesota Department of Transportation says the westbound mainline and HOV/Reversible lanes will open at 5 a.m. between on I-394 between I-94 and Highway 100.
One suspect is in custody and another is being sought after a home was burglarized in St. Cloud last Saturday morning, according to police. Authorities responded to a report of a burglary at about 12:45 p.m. at a house on the 500 block of 6th Avenue South.
Authorities have released more information on how a car smashed into a St. Louis Park restaurant Wednesday afternoon. According to a police report, the crash happened just before 1 p.m. at Yum! Kitchen and Bakery, located at 4000 Minnetonka Boulevard.
More than 40 soldiers from the 204th Medical Company of the National Guard are returning to Minnesota over the next few weeks, following a nine-month deployment in Sinai, Egypt.
A grand jury returned an indictment this week on the son of an Elk River police officer accused of killing his father and brother, charging him with first-degree murder and second-degree murder, the Wright County Attorney's Office says.
