Jimmy Butler hit four 3-pointers among his 28 points and Karl-Anthony Towns snapped back from a bad start to the series with 18 points and 16 rebounds, leading the Timberwolves past the Rockets on Saturday night for their first postseason victory in 14 years.

Members of each party met for their endorsing conventions on Saturday — Republicans in Mankato and Democrats in Le Sueur. Republicans endorsed Jim Hagedorn, while Democrats endorsed Dan Feehan.

Drivers in the Twin Cities metropolitan area will have to contend with several new construction projects on metro-area freeways starting Monday.

The Wild's regular-season consistency has only led to April dissatisfaction.

Police spokesman Don Aaron said the gunman arrived at the restaurant and sat in the parking lot for four minutes and shot two people with an assault rifle, then went inside and continued firing.

Gen. Daud Amin, the Kabul police chief, said the suicide bomber targeted civilians who had gathered to receive national identification cards.

According to Minnesota Department of Natural Resources Nongame Wildlife Program supervisor Carrol Henderson, ducks, geese and other waterfowl are waiting for open water. However, he said that when ice-out does come this year, the migration is likely to be rapid.

No cause of death was given, but a statement provided by Troyer's representatives describes the actor as a "fighter" who was unable to overcome a recent bout of adversity, then goes on to discuss depression and suicide.

Former presidents, ambassadors and hundreds of other mourners gathered inside the nation's largest Episcopal church during Barbara Bush's funeral Saturday.

The courthouse-turned-museum in downtown Las Vegas for years has showcased the area's storied past in organized crime. But visitors now can also learn about the complexity of the decisions that officers face when they encounter situations that may require the use of deadly force.

Just before midnight Friday, St. Paul police officers responded to a domestic incident in the Frogtown neighborhood, police spokesperson Steve Linders said. Linders said a woman called police to say her boyfriend was threatening her 14-year-old son with a machete.

Amnesty International gave former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick its Ambassador of Conscience Award on Saturday for his kneeling protest of racial injustice that launched a sports movement and might have cost him his job.

The site visit, confirmed by the Organization of the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, would allow the agency to proceed with an independent investigation to determine what chemicals, if any, were used in the April 7 attack that medical workers said killed more than 40 people.

"Their training is really rigorous, they have incredible ears. They can improvise and they play all sorts of music. They're all classically trained and they love jazz, too," said Cuban American Youth Orchestra Executive Director Rena Kraut.

Gun violence protests may be a pivotal moment for the generation coming up behind millennials. Events that occur when we're young can have an outsized impact on shaping our political outlook.

The move follows widespread outrage over the recent rape and killing of an 8-year-old girl in India's Jammu-Kashmir state, the alleged rape of a girl by a ruling party lawmaker in Uttar Pradesh state and several other rape cases involving girls in the country.

Allowing cinemas is part of a modernization drive by the Saudi government, which hopes to create more business opportunities and become a regional film hub. But it's a tough place to be a filmmaker.

The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, opening Thursday, is a project of the nonprofit Equal Justice Initiative, a legal advocacy group in Montgomery, Alabama. The organization says the combined museum and memorial will be the nation's first site to document racial inequality in America from slavery through Jim Crow to the issues of today.

Friday's shooting at Forest High School in Ocala happened on a day planned for a national classroom walkout to protest gun violence. A 17-year-old boy was taken to a hospital for treatment of a non-life threatening wound to his ankle.