Much of southern Minnesota, including some southern metro counties, were under a thunderstorm warning Thursday evening. A tornado warning was also issued in several counties. Damage was reported in the Lake Minnetonka and Northfield areas.
Stearns Country Sheriff Don Gudmundson delivered a brutal assessment Thursday of the cascading errors and friction among law enforcement that let Jacob Wetterling's killer stay free for decades even as the evidence pointed overwhelmingly to Danny Heinrich.
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A department spokesman said a welding torch ignited an aluminum dust and water mixture Wednesday at Metal-Matic, not far from the Stone Arch Bridge.
The Minneapolis City Council is struggling to decide where to relocate residents of a homeless encampment that now resides in south Minneapolis. In a divided vote, council members recommended the site near the schools, a city-owned 1.5-acre lot at East 26th Street and Minnehaha Avenue.
In what could be an ominous sign for Minnesota Republicans on the November ballot, President Trump's job approval here has slipped, according to the latest MPR News/Star Tribune Minnesota Poll.
After more than 30 years of selling radio equipment, dispensing advice and serving as a hub of the wireless hobby across the Midwest, owners Dan and Maline Fish say they're retiring and preparing to pull the plug on Radio City, their store in Mounds View.
After saying on social media that the incident "did happen," a former classmate of Christine Blasey Ford tells NPR she does not have first-hand knowledge of it.
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Lawyers for a Twin Cities man accused of abusing his daughters suspect he's not mentally able to stand trial. A Hennepin County judge has now ordered a competency exam.
Last week, Ryan McCartan, an Excelsior native, made his Broadway debut playing Fieryo, the lead male role in the hit musical Wicked.
Wells Fargo plans to cut up to 10 percent of its workforce over the next three years, the bank announced on Thursday, which will result in thousands of job losses for employees of the nation's third-largest bank.
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Minnesota employers took a breather after adding nearly 32,000 jobs from May through July. Statewide payroll employment fell by 200 positions in August, and the jobless rate dropped below 3 percent as fewer people were job-hunting.
Fire prompted a brief evacuation at a St. Cloud manufacturing company.
Three people were killed Thursday morning in a shooting at a Rite Aid distribution center in northeast Maryland, officials said.
Minneapolis police have finished their investigation into a sexual assault allegation against Chinese billionaire Richard Liu and have turned the case over to prosecutors.