Morning Snow Catches Drivers, MnDOT Off Guard
Metro motorists were suddenly and unexpectedly thrown into winter mode on Monday morning. According to the State Patrol, at least 50 spinouts and fender-benders were reported by late Monday morning.
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Metro motorists were suddenly and unexpectedly thrown into winter mode on Monday morning. According to the State Patrol, at least 50 spinouts and fender-benders were reported by late Monday morning.
Day and night, help is just a phone call away. A nonprofit service in the north metro offers a safe ride home after people have had too many drinks.
A 12-year-old boy from Motley had a deer hunting experience he will likely never forget on the opening weekend of the season.
The race for Minnesota's 6th District finds both Michele Bachman and Jim Graves taking nothing for granted the day before Election Day.
Last year, Minnesota police officers, county deputies and state patrol officers arrested nearly 30,000 drivers for driving while intoxicated. Worse yet, for over 40 percent of them it wasn't their first time.
When Bud Moen first picked up his comb and shears, Dwight Eisenhower was president. Ten presidents and 58 years later, Moen is still clipping away.
Cindy Schnaith is practically giddy when gassing up these days. It wasn't more than a month ago that filling up her sport utility vehicle cost her nearly $80 per tankful.
With a burgeoning population of Somali-American families settling in the Twin Cities and across Minnesota, it's only natural to expect cultural clashes and growing pains. But few expected the attraction of so many Somali boys and men to get drawn into the strife back in their homeland.
Sitting at a café table along Nicollet Avenue, restaurant owner Thom Pham spoke openly about the travails of the business.
In unmarked vehicles, four teams of St. Paul Police family violence officers spread out across the east metro Wednesday -- armed with the list of 60 offenders wanted by outstanding arrest warrants.
When you take a walk with Gene Nicolelli, you'd think he was a retired bus driver -- not a former grocer.
The image of golden corn kernels pouring into Minnesota's grain bins could well be the sight and sound of money for farmers.
With dust clouds rising on another fall harvest, Minnesota's dairy farmers are getting swallowed up in it.
It seems hard to fathom, but western settlement nearly wiped out the nation's bison herd -- some 30 to 60 million animals. That herd stretched from Minnesota's grasslands to the Rocky Mountains. But over the years, hard work has brought the bison back.
What happened last Thursday at Accent Signage Systems in Minneapolis sent shivers through every small business and corporate boardroom.
Back in late August, a cigarette that had been put out in a planter containing peat moss was all it took to set a Ramsey home on fire. Luckily, all six family members got out of the home alive.
WCCO-TV was awarded 12 Emmys at the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS), Upper Midwest Regional Emmy Awards gala held Saturday at the State Theater in Minneapolis.
They might skate on the same ice but the two sports couldn't be farther apart. The rough-and-tumble excitement of professional hockey and the finesse and solitude of figure skating are in stark contrast.
The $1.1 billion settlement recently announced between the U.S. Department of Justice and foreign manufacturers of flat panel televisions, laptops and computer monitors just might put a little extra money in consumer's pockets.
For children in the poorest regions of Africa, not only do they walk miles for an education, they do it barefoot. That's why a father and son in Blaine are putting together a shoe drive they hope will generate hundreds of pairs of shoes and socks for kids in the Congo, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
In weathered barns and city garages, duck boats are rolling out of storage.
A Hennepin County courtroom is a long way from the dairy herds of central Minnesota. But it's where the issue of food safety hangs in the balance with consumers rights. Specifically, it's about farmer's right to sell raw milk to members of a co-op or "private" food club.
If you ask 16-year-old Kate Curtis if she's an avid angler, she'll give you a smile and a chuckle. "I enjoy it but it's definitely not my first idea of fun," Kate admits.
Sitting on the front porch of her Bloomington home, elderly homeowner Pat Wildgen is wise beyond her years and not about to fall for a fly-by-night offer.
With the final few days of summer break winding down, the children will be among the 38,000 students returning to Anoka-Hennepin schools next week. But it's a district where Pertussis booster, Tdap vaccine, will be as vital as backpacks.
