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A last chance for historic Dayton's Bluff homes
The city of St. Paul is seeking developers for six historic properties in Dayton's Bluff. On Sunday, people toured the vacant homes, stepping into the city's past.
Arrest made in fatal St. Paul park shooting
A 24-year-old Minneapolis man has been booked on suspicion of homicide in a shooting Sunday at St. Paul's Indian Mounds Regional Park that left one man dead and another injured.
She lost her fiance to painkillers and went on to fight for Narcan
Steve Rummler and Lexi Reed Holtum were high school sweethearts who went their own ways after graduation. Years later, they reunited, fell back in love and planned to marry. A prescription for opioid painkillers -- and later, addiction -- intervened.
He sold drugs to his own community; now he fights for redemption
James Cross used to sell drugs in Minneapolis and on northern Minnesota's Native American reservations. After more than two decades in and out of jail, he's working to support recovery and addiction programs in Native American communities.
This White Earth mom lost her pregnant daughter to overdose
Rita Rogers still gets bills in the mail from the last treatment center her daughter was ordered to attend.
It's been nearly two years since the body of Andrew Sadek, 20, was found in the Red River -- not far from where he attended the North Dakota State College of Science in Wahpeton.
1 man dies in St. Paul market fire
Authorities are trying to determine what caused a fire that killed one man in a St. Paul neighborhood market early Thursday morning.