The driver of a pickup truck died Tuesday morning after colliding head-on with a school bus in the city of Andover. A student on the bus and the bus driver suffered non-life-threatening injuries.
For the first time in more than four months, traffic is flowing freely on West Seventh Street near Grand Casino Arena in St. Paul — after crews finished repairing damage caused by a sinkhole.
The Metropolitan Council voted in August to end the Northstar commuter rail service due to low ridership and a high taxpayer subsidy. Beginning Jan. 5, bus service from Big Lake and Elk River to Minneapolis will provide commuters with another option.
A new report states passengers who weren’t buckled aboard a Delta Air Lines flight to Europe were violently thrown into the ceiling and back down to the floor in July when the plane encountered severe turbulence. The National Transportation Safety Board says passengers endured 2.5 minutes of turbulence that caught the pilots by surprise even though they had already altered their route to try to avoid July 30 thunderstorms over Wyoming.
Ford is recalling almost 1.5 million vehicles in the United States because the rear view camera may show a blank or distorted image on the center display screen while the vehicle is in reverse, which can reduce or distort the driver’s view of what’s behind the car and increase the risk of a crash.
As summer gives way to fall, there is still a lot of road construction underway across Minnesota. Drivers in the Twin Cities will have to navigate several major freeway closures this weekend.
The crash happened just after 8:30 a.m. along Highway 55 at Penn Avenue, west of downtown. The child was transported to a hospital and is expected to survive.
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