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U of M police ask for help finding missing student
The University of Minnesota Police Department is asking for the public's help in locating a 19-year-old last seen leaving the 17th Avenue Residence Hall Saturday around 2:40 a.m.
5 dead and 5 injured — names on a scrap of paper show impact of Gaza war on a U.S. family
Jehad Adwan, a nursing professor at Minnesota State University, Mankato, said he and his wife, Fatma Abumousa, found out early Sunday that five of her relatives were killed, and another five were injured, after a bomb hit her family's home in Gaza.
Authorities in Anoka County seized 22 dogs from an animal rescue group in the city of Andover on Friday, as part of the investigation into the discovery of eight dead dogs in Cottage Grove, Minn., last weekend.
Minnesota's Emmer seeking House speaker nomination
“I'm running for Speaker of the House to bring our conference together and get back to work,” Emmer said in a social media post Saturday morning.
Fire burns former Lake Street Kmart building in Minneapolis
Fire crews responded to the call at about 5 a.m. and found flames and thick smoke coming from the vacant Kmart department store at Lake and Nicollet, just west of Interstate 35W. The building was scheduled for demolition next March.
Minnesota unemployment rate unchanged at 3.1 percent in September
Minnesota employers added 8,000 jobs in September while the state’s unemployment rate was unchanged, according to data released Thursday by the Department of Employment and Economic Development.