Disasters

Fire near Ely slowing down
As firefighters continue to battle the wildfire south of Ely, authorities have lifted the evacuation order within city limits.
Shoppers at Scheels and the Moorhead Center Mall got a surprise this weekend.
Investigators believe a lightning strike ignited a house fire in Blue Earth that killed two people.
Workers with the U.S. Postal Service will deliver empty pill bottles to homes in the metro area Sunday in a drill to test how well they can deliver medicine in the event of a terror attack.
Police say former NFL star Junior Seau has been found dead in an apparent suicide at his home in Southern California.
Safety experts are reminding parents to take care when opening windows to ensure children don't fall or jump out.
Washington County Sheriff's Cmdr. Brian Mueller says his department dealt with its first case over the weekend.
A long legal battle for the families of four young people who died in a train crash in Anoka is over after the railroad decided not to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
A woman and her adult son were killed in separate traffic accidents just hours apart in a Milwaukee suburb.
Two Hibbing teenagers died in a rollover crash in St. Louis County of northeastern Minnesota.