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Cities along rivers in Minnesota should have a better idea of the spring flood threat when the National Weather Service releases an updated flood outlook Friday.
Bankrupt auto mogul Denny Hecker's legal nightmare took an even darker turn Thursday, after his former father-in-law committed suicide just a week after he was accused of helping Hecker hide about $81,000 from creditors.
A Minnesota man who was suing jailers for failing to get him care for frostbitten feet has died in Iowa.
U of M president proposes unpaid furloughs to cut costs
The plan would require employees to take unpaid leave before the end of 2010. Members of the executive administration would take six unpaid days.
A call for calm after Mpls teen's shooting death
Minneapolis community leaders and police are trying to prevent any violent retaliation over the recent shooting death of a teenage girl.
Excel Dairy lawyer says MPCA wrong to revoke permit
The lawyer for a large dairy near Thief River Falls told an appeals court panel Thursday that the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency is acting arbitrarily in revoking the dairy's permit.
MN Dem candidate Bakk: Tax clothing, cut sales tax
A key legislator says he wants to expand the state sales tax to clothing and use the revenue to reduce the budget deficit and pay off a school funding shift.
A Hennepin County medical examiner's report confirms that what the mother of a University of Minnesota student had suspected. That her son was experimenting with drugs and died accidentally.
Minnesota schools are having to react when rumors of school violence spread quickly on social-networking sites like Facebook and Twitter.
Target Corp. said Thursday that February sales in stores open at least one year rose 2.4 percent as more customers came into stores and spent more money than a year ago.