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Tiny Target plants bullseye in Dinkytown
Some big box retailers are wondering what a littler box can do for sales.
St. Paul mayor wants to speed up light rail
He's open to giving Green Line drivers more power over traffic lights.
For All-Star FanFest, free rent in Minneapolis
A document released by the city of Minneapolis shows the city provided free rent worth more than $250,000 for Major League Baseball's FanFest.
$50M pipe might not restore White Bear Lake levels
A draft of a report by the Metropolitan Council says shifting some suburbs' reliance from groundwater to Mississippi River water could cost hundreds of millions of dollars. It also says piping water from the river to raise levels in White Bear Lake would cost $50 million but leave officials uncertain of the impact.
The Anoka County Sheriff's Office says officers responded to a report Tuesday that a Coon Rapids man was suicidal and had left his home with a loaded handgun. They located the man's vehicle in Coon Rapids and tried to stop it
Mpls man tossed off flight for tweeting
A Minneapolis man and his two kids were thrown off a Southwest Airlines flight from Denver to Minneapolis on Sunday because he tweeted his displeasure that the two kids weren’t allowed to “priority board” with him. “In leaving I said, you know, ‘Real nice way to treat an A-list. I’ll be sure to tweet about…
With no buyers, nine Rainbow grocery stores close today
The shuttered locations include stores in Apple Valley, Cottage Grove, Shoreview, Bloomington, Coon Rapids, and Maple Grove.
An officer saw the vehicle late Saturday night on a sidewalk near an intersection and found the woman in the front seat. Paramedics treated her at the scene before she was transported to Regions Hospital, where she died Sunday afternoon.
The police department predicted a 2 percent increase in violent crime along the transit corridor, which includes downtown St. Paul and University Avenue.