The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension reported Sunday afternoon that it is responding to a police shooting in Burnsville.

The percentage of Minnesotans 16 and older with at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine ticked up to nearly 52 percent on Sunday, after crossing the 50-percent threshold the day before.

The Brooklyn Center school district has canceled in-person classes this week and turned some of its buildings into community aid centers. School leaders say the worst thing they could do would be to carry on with business as usual as their students and families are frightened and in pain after yet another police killing, clashes with protesters and boarded-up grocery stores.  

The game between Minnesota and the Oakland Athletics scheduled for Monday night in Oakland has been postponed because of the Twins’ continued COVID-19 problems.

Derek Chauvin's defense has suggested George Floyd's drug use might have made him more "volatile" and unpredictable, justifying the use of force. Critics say Floyd needed health care and compassion.

Two Minnesota National Guard members on duty in the Twin Cities suffered minor injuries early Sunday after being fired at in what authorities said was a drive-by shooting in Minneapolis.

Three people were killed and two were seriously wounded in a shooting at a busy tavern in southeastern Wisconsin early Sunday, sheriff's officials said.

The Minnesota Department of Human Rights has been tracking an uptick in anti-Asian incidents since the start of the pandemic. But this community has endured the effects of racism since long before COVID-19. What’s being done in Minnesota to stop it? What more needs to be done? Join host Tom Crann in conversation with community leaders at 12 p.m. April 28. Register now to reserve your spot. 

The United States will likely move to resume administering Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine this coming week, possibly with restrictions or broader warnings after reports of some very rare blood clot cases, the government’s top infectious disease expert said Sunday.

The former employee who shot and killed eight people at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis legally purchased the two assault rifles used in the attack despite red flag laws designed to prevent that, police said.

A new study of Indian jumping ants shows they have the ability to shrink and then regrow their brains — a first for any insect.

Charles “Chuck” Geschke — the co-founder of the major software company Adobe Inc. who helped develop Portable Document Format technology, or PDFs — has died at age 81.

Coordinated events held Saturday in the Twin Cities aimed to support people traumatized by the recent killing of Daunte Wright, and the police response to subsequent protests.

The global death toll from the coronavirus topped a staggering 3 million people Saturday, amid repeated setbacks in the worldwide vaccination campaign and a deepening crisis in places such as Brazil, India and France.

With vaccinations raising hopes that the end of the pandemic is approaching, some young adults in the U.S. are getting ready to make up for lost time, much like their great-grandparents did a century ago.

"We have all the problems of Indian Country, but no means of dealing with it," Chinook Indian Nation chair Tony Johnson says. Without federal recognition, they get no reservation, no housing allowance, no clinics, no vaccine allocations.

With military bands and a royal procession, Prince Philip was laid to rest Saturday in a funeral ceremony that honored his lifetime of service to the country, the crown and his wife, Queen Elizabeth II. The widowed British monarch, setting an example amid the coronavirus pandemic, sat alone at the ceremony.

Despite pleas from elected leaders for police restraint, law enforcement on Friday night took aggressive action against protesters and journalists outside the Brooklyn Center Police Department.