The man who pleaded guilty to kidnapping a western Wisconsin teen after killing her parents last fall is due to be sentenced at a hearing Friday.

Dante Tini, the 19-year-old sailor who died at Pearl Harbor and for decades was unidentified, is back home in Virginia, Minn.

This is the third lawsuit filed against the former Minneapolis police officer. Earlier this month, the city settled with Justine Ruszczyk's family for a record $20 million after Noor was found guilty of murder and manslaughter in connection with her death.

Gov. Tim Walz summoned lawmakers for a Friday start to a special session where they will vote on a new two-year state budget. As pieces of the plan have emerged, the decisions made by leaders in private have lawmakers from both parties, groups with a stake in the proposals and other members of the public fuming.

Patrick Dougherty's medium of choice made the Landscape Arboretum the perfect venue for his work.

The Minnesota Lynx seemed set to stumble after Lindsay Whalen retired and Maya Moore stepped away. But with the new season starting Saturday, there's reason for optimism. The team's rebuild has been surprisingly solid.

May had been under intense pressure from lawmakers to step down after her plans for Brexit were repeatedly rejected. Conservative lawmakers will now begin to consider her replacement.

Fifteen years ago, Sam Miltich was a teenager on top of the world. He taught himself how to play jazz guitar growing up in the woods outside Grand Rapids. And he got so good that at 18 he played in Europe and New York. Then, four years later, something happened that made it hard for Miltich to comprehend living, much less making a living playing jazz.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' commanding officer has endorsed a $778 million plan for upgrading a lock-and-dam complex near Chicago to prevent Asian carp from invading the Great Lakes.

The Democratic presidential candidate wants to decriminalize border crossing and argues that President Trump's proposed "merit-based" immigration system "says that only certain people have merit."

The federal government has spent $7 billion on a transportation grant program that often awards money based on political clout and electoral impact, skirting Congress' own ban on earmarks.

The Woodbury family posted Thursday evening on a GoFundMe page that the procedures are "non-life threatening complications" related to the fall.

Four years after implementing a policy to allow undocumented immigrants to obtain driver's licenses, Connecticut has seen a reduction in hit-and-run crashes and a steep decline in the number of people found guilty of unlicensed driving.

Ames, Iowa, has an unemployment rate of 1.5 percent, making it the tightest job market in the country. That's great for workers -- but a challenge for those looking for them.

It bans the manufacture and sale of mattresses, children's products, upholstered furniture and residential textiles, such as window coverings, that contain certain flame retardants.

No, the llamas are not in red pajamas. But you can see them in a new exhibit highlighting native South American animals beginning Saturday through Labor Day weekend. It also features guinea pigs and large flightless birds called rheas.

The board overseeing Rochester's Destination Medical Center project has approved a design for a zone called the "Heart of the City."

Trump rolled out another $16 billion in aid for farmers hurt by his trade policies, and financial markets shook Thursday on the growing realization that the U.S. and China are far from settling a bitter, year-long trade dispute.

Lois Riess, already in jail in Florida awaiting trial for allegedly murdering a woman who resembled her as she fled from authorities, has been charged with killing her husband in Blooming Prairie, Minn.