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Minnesota experts: It’s time families plan for COVID-19 outbreak
People should consider whether they have enough food at home and who will care for a sick family member, infectious disease experts in Minnesota say.
Both shooting victims are men in their 20s, according to police. The club, Rouge at The Lounge, is located a block south of Target Field.
The sheriff's office said the plane crash was reported just after 11 a.m. in Crow-Hassan Park Reserve near Rogers.
Crews extinguish stubborn fire at Northern Metal in Becker
Officials in Becker, Minn., said Saturday that the stubborn fire at the Northern Metal Recycling facility has finally been extinguished.
Report: Minnesota paying out $135K annually due to wolf kills
In the last decade, the Minnesota Department of Agriculture has paid out an average of $135,000 on about 110 wolf depredation claims each year.
150K Minnesotans to see refunds of vehicle title, registration surcharges
The refunds are going to people who were charged a registration technology surcharge twice when they transferred a vehicle title and renewed the vehicle registration at the same time.
Home renovators reap rewards of reuse, recycling
Hundreds of thousands of tons of construction and demolition waste — much of it from home tear-downs and remodeling jobs — end up in landfills every year. But some homeowners are learning it's environmentally and financially rewarding when those materials are reused or recycled.
Bogus story of an immigration raid brings chaos to Hmong market
Hmong community leaders are scrambling to set the record straight after an online post falsely claimed that federal immigration agents had arrested hundreds of people at a popular St. Paul market. Its posting set off a frenzy, playing on the fears of a very real proposal by the Trump administration to deport some Hmong and Lao immigrants.