SHOREWOOD, Minn. (AP) — A water skier is hurt after an accident involving a Hennepin County Sheriff's Water Patrol boat on Lake Minnetonka this weekend. The sheriff's office said the accident happened around 6:40 a.m. Saturday in the Lower Lake of Lake Minnetonka, south of Gale Island. The ...
BIG LAKE, Minn. (AP) — Divers have recovered the body of a St. Cloud man who drowned after falling off a floating tube in Big Lake. Sherburne County Sheriff Joel Brott said the dive team was called in around 7:45 p.m. Saturday at the lake's swimming beach after a witness saw a man fall off a ...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison on Friday filed a complaint against an Itasca County company that organized and promoted a three-day rodeo that allegedly drew large crowds after the state imposed a spectator limit for the event. Ellison's action came after the ...
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota faces a potential $4.7 billion deficit in its next two-year budget due to continued economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new planning estimate announced Friday by the Minnesota Management and Budget office. Management and Budget ...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota state officials on Thursday unveiled a plan to reopen schools this fall that gives districts some flexibility to toggle between in-person and online learning, but reserves the right for the state to step in if the coronavirus gets out of control. Gov. Tim Walz ...
WABASHA, Minn. (AP) — A county Republican board member in southern Minnesota has resigned after posting on Facebook an image that compares the state's mask mandate to Jewish people wearing a star in concentration camps. The Wabasha County GOP initially said its Facebook page apparently had ...
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A Republican state senator says the Minnesota State Board of Medical Practice has dismissed complaints challenging his medical license over comments he made about the coronavirus. Sen. Scott Jensen of Chaska announced on Facebook Monday that the board informed him it ...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Prosecutors said Tuesday they may revisit the issue of audio-visual coverage of the trials of four former Minneapolis police officers charged in the death of George Floyd. The Minnesota Attorney General's office did not offer a reason Monday when it opposed allowing ...
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota health officials said Tuesday the number of newly confirmed coronavirus case slipped after several days of large case counts. The Minnesota Department of Health reported 480 new COVID-19 infections on Tuesday, bringing the number of confirmed cases in the ...
By KATELYN VUE Minnesota Daily MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Less than two weeks into her position as a new professor and head of the University of Minnesota's School of Architecture, Jennifer Yoos released a statement with a list of action items to address racial and spatial justice. This came after ...
EFFIE, Minn. (AP) — Thousands showed up for what is known as Minnesota's largest outdoor rodeo, packing the stands for the three-day event despite orders to limit crowds because of the coronavirus pandemic. The state Department of Health and the state Attorney General's Office imposed a ...
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Charred piles of rubble remain in St. Paul's Midway neighborhood where rioters torched businesses following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Buildings that were set on fire have been razed by the city using emergency funds. Now, the owners of the burned ...
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota reported another 650 confirmed cases of the coronavirus on Monday, continuing a swing upward in the rolling average even as hospitalizations and deaths have remained lower than prior levels. The state reported two deaths, both people age 70 or older and both ...
By ANGIE RIEBE Mesabi Tribune VIRGINIA, Minn. (AP) — You could say Diana Brennan is a Monopoly fanatic. Childhood board games lasted neither hours nor days but a month at time, she said on a recent afternoon at her Virginia home. Today Brennan has a collection of Monopoly boards, including ...
By ANNE D'INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Target is joining Walmart in closing its stores on Thanksgiving Day, ending a decadelong tradition of jump-starting Black Friday door buster sales. The move, announced Monday, comes as stores are rethinking this year's Black Friday ...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Prosecutors in the cases against four former Minneapolis police officers charged in the death of George Floyd said Monday that they do not want audio or visual coverage of the trials, but they did not provide a reason. Derek Chauvin and three other former officers are ...
BIG LAKE, Minn. (AP) — The 20-year-old son of a Big Lake city councilwoman is charged with killing her. Eric Jordahl of Big Lake was charged Monday with two counts of second-degree murder in the death of 62-year-old Rose Johnson. A judge set Jordahl's bail at $1 million, with ...
ASHBY, Minn. (AP) — Authorities in western Minnesota say a 3-year-old child has died after being pulled from a lake last week. The Otter Tail County Sheriff's Office got a report Friday that the child had been pulled from the water unconscious at the Eagle Lake public swimming area. People ...
By MOHAMED IBRAHIM Associated Press/Report for America MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Ivanka Trump and Interior Secretary David Bernhardt visited a Minneapolis suburb on Monday to open an office dedicated to investigating cold cases involving missing and murdered Indigenous peoples. The new office in ...
HENDERSON, Minn. (AP) — A storm has dumped up to 8 inches of rain in southern Minnesota and flooded some roads. The Minnesota Department of Transportation reports Highway 93 near the Minnesota River was closed Sunday morning between Henderson and Highway 169. The Star Tribune reports flash ...