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Appeals court: Minneapolis cannot operate park outside U.S. Bank Stadium
Activist John Hayden and former councilman Paul Ostrow filed suit in 2017, arguing the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board — not the city — must manage the park. The park board has operated the Commons since May 1.
The mayor of Eagan is accused of driving drunk and crashing into a snowbank with a blood alcohol level more than twice the legal limit. Mike Maguire was arrested near his home Jan. 11 after police responded to a report of an SUV stuck in a snowbank.
Charges: Minnesota drywall employees stiffed out of workers' comp
Merit Drywall owners avoided paying more than $300,000 in workers’ compensation premiums when they misrepresented employees as independent contractors, according to charges announced Tuesday by Hennepin County prosecutors.
Airport officials consider joining move to $15 minimum wage
The ordinance would cover thousands of workers and bring the airport into line with similar measures in Minneapolis and St. Paul. But business owners tied to the airport are concerned about the costs.
Minnesota man exposed as commander of Nazi-led unit dies
A retired Minnesota carpenter whom The Associated Press exposed as a former commander of a Nazi-led unit accused of war atrocities has died.
Hidden for decades, work of Minnesota photographer gets its own museum exhibit
After sitting unseen and largely forgotten for more than a quarter century, a trove of images taken by a Minnesota photographer in the 1940s and 1950s are on display in a new museum exhibit in Winona.
Youthful curators present a younger world in 'Just Kids'
Minneapolis Institute of Art exhibit of photographs of children and young adults was designed and documented by Twin Cities school students.
Minnesota State Fair will add metal detectors at entrance gates
The fair’s governing board met in Bloomington on Sunday to approve its annual budget and fair plan. That will include screening with metal detectors at all 11 gates that let people into the fair.
Firefighters were called just after 2:30 a.m. to the four-unit apartment building on the 400 block of Front Avenue. Crews found smoke coming from the second floor, with a report that one adult and possibly three children were trapped in an upper-level unit.