(2008/05/17)
ST. PAUL (AP) — Minnesota leaders said Friday evening they were on the brink of a session-ending deal that would mean curbs on local property taxes, extra dollars for schools and the elimination of a nearly $1 billion budget deficit.
(2008/05/17)
ST. PAUL (AP) — The Abigail Taylor pool safety bill is now law in Minnesota.
(2008/05/17)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A coalition of protesters planning to march on the first day of the Republican National Convention plans to push the city of St. Paul for a permit more to its liking.
(2008/05/17)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — There's a new rule at a Minneapolis elementary school: no touching.
(2008/05/17)
WHITE BEAR LAKE, Minn. (AP) — Civic boosters in White Bear Lake are preparing for a first.
(2008/05/17)
MARSHALL, Minn. (AP) — Authorities in southwestern Minnesota are looking for a 19-year-old Marshall man whose car apparently went into a ditch near Taunton.
(2008/05/17)
ST. PAUL (AP) — The state Health Department is warning people to guard against tick bites as new statistics show 2007 was a record year for tick-born diseases in the state.
(2008/05/17)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The state's firing of an emergency management official who was absent in the wake of the Minneapolis bridge collapse was justified, an arbitrator ruled.
(2008/05/16)
MARSHALL, Minn. — A federal immigration agent says witnesses have told investigators that the woman charged in a fatal school bus crash in southwestern Minnesota was not alone at the time.
(2008/05/16)
CHASKA, Minn. — Highway 212 is closed in both directions west of Chaska after a motorist struck and killed a road construction flagman. It happened just before 7 a.m. Thursday.
(2008/05/16)
ST. PAUL — Sponsors of a plan to raise Minnesota’s minimum wage for the first time since 2005 say they’ve been notified their bill has been vetoed.
(2008/05/16)
ST. PAUL — Bars across the Twin Cities area will probably be staying open a few hours later during the Republican National Convention.
(2008/05/16)
MINNEAPOLIS — A union representative says the Star Tribune is considering a $2.5 million cut in its annual newsroom budget.
(2008/05/16)
ST. PAUL — At least no one can accuse them of rushing to judgment.
(2008/05/16)
ST. PAUL — A former Department of Natural Resources official says he had concerns about the way the agency handled funding for a national game-warden conference, but his comments were brushed aside.
(2008/05/16)
MAPLE GROVE, Minn. — Police say a 12-year-old Maple Grove girl knew her mom was drunk on Saturday, so she took the car keys.
(2008/05/15)
ST. PAUL — Top Minnesota legislators and Gov. Tim Pawlenty spent much of Wednesday in private meetings trying to narrow their differences on spending cuts and property tax relief.
(2008/05/15)
WASHINGTON — Congress’ two Muslim members urged the U.S. government to lead efforts to bring an end to the violence in the Darfur region of Sudan, where more than 200,000 people have died and 2.5 million have been displaced.
(2008/05/15)
ST. PAUL — A group of demonstrators protesting the war in Iraq will be allowed to parade as close as 300 feet from the Xcel Energy Center on the first day of the Republican National Convention, police said Wednesday.
(2008/05/13)
ST. PAUL — Tax relief for homeowners, additional dollars for schools and a subsidy package for the Mall of America hung in the balance Monday night as the Legislature crept toward its mandatory finish line.
(2008/05/13)
MINNEAPOLIS — The U.S. Agriculture Department says Minnesota farmers made large gains in fieldwork and planting last week.
(2008/05/13)
FREEBORN, Minn. — The big oak tree in the center of Jim Beach’s driveway was a Freeborn landmark for years, and that hasn’t changed since it died.
(2008/05/13)
DETROIT LAKES, Minn. — Crews were chipping away aluminum that spilled from a valve and coated a floor 2½ inches deep at a Detroit Lakes foundry.
(2008/05/13)
MOORHEAD, Minn. — Officials at American Crystal Sugar say they’re taking steps to reduce the odor wafting from the factory in Moorhead.
(2008/05/13)
MINNEAPOLIS — The Minneapolis Scuplture Garden will be celebrating its 20th anniversary this summer.
(2008/05/13)
ST. PAUL — Bill Holm is a musician, poet and essayist. Now he can add McKnight Foundation Distinguised Artist winner to his varied resume.
(2008/05/13)
ST. PAUL — The Department of Natural Resources has rescinded its speed limit on the St. Croix River because the water level has risen.
(2008/05/13)
MINNEAPOLIS — In a Hennepin County courtroom last month, a corporate lawyer urged a judge to throw out a lawsuit alleging insurance fraud against the elderly, arguing that the insurer had reached a settlement with the Commerce Department.
(2008/05/13)
MINNEAPOLIS — The near collapse of an interstate bridge in Ohio 12 years ago was linked to undersized and corroded gusset plates.
(2008/05/13)
ST. PAUL — City officials in St. Paul are thinking about using the skyways for advertising revenue during the Republican National Convention.
(2008/05/12)
BURNSVILLE, Minn. (AP) — Burnsville police are looking for two men who stabbed a resident several times, set his home on fire, and stole his car.
(2008/05/12)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — University of Minnesota police are investigating a report of a sexual assault in a campus dormitory.
(2008/05/12)
ST. PAUL (AP) — Gov. Tim Pawlenty has resumed budget negotiations with legislative leaders.
(2008/05/12)
ST. PAUL — Minnesota lawmakers burst from the gate in February, quickly finalizing spending for transportation upgrades and a long-pushed ballot measure dedicating dollars to outdoors and arts programs.
(2008/05/12)
ST. PAUL (AP) — State Representative Mark Olson says he might still run for reelection as an independent after his Republican Party constituents endorsed someone else to run for his legislative seat.
(2008/05/12)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Plymouth police officer suffered minor injuries during a chase that ended when a stolen car crashed in south Minneapolis.
(2008/05/12)
ST. PAUL (AP) — Citizens, politicians and protesters marked Minnesota’s 150th anniversary of statehood by gathering at the Capitol on Sunday to remember its past and ponder its future.
(2008/05/12)
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (AP) — Around 50,000 people turned out in Bloomington for the 16th annual Race for the Cure.
(2008/05/11)
ANOKA, Minn. — A 24-year-old Spring Lake Park man is in custody for allegedly beating a 7-month-old baby so badly that the boy was left in a coma.
(2008/05/11)
MINNEAPOLIS — As fewer Minnesotans are buying fishing licenses, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is working on an aggressive campaign to lure new anglers to the state’s waters.
(2008/05/11)
BREEZY POINT, Minn. — Gov. Tim Pawlenty landed a 17-inch walleye Saturday during the Governor’s 60th Annual Fishing Opener at Breezy Point on Pelican Lake.
(2008/05/11)
WILLMAR, Minn. — While some international assistance is being kept out of Myanmar, a Minnesota woman is in the southeast Asian country hand-delivering rice and bottles of water to cyclone survivors.
(2008/05/11)
DULUTH, Minn. — Authorities in St. Louis County are investigating the death of a University of Minnesota Duluth student.
(2008/05/11)
CENTER CITY, Minn. — Two people are dead after a fiery head-on crash in Chisago County.
(2008/05/11)
ST. PAUL — A wagon train is winding through the Twin Cities this weekend to mark Minnesota’s 150th anniversary.
(2008/05/10)
DILWORTH, Minn. — Fourteen-year-old Bishop Edens was suspended from school Friday because he wouldn’t stand for the Pledge of Allegiance, but he was quickly invited back once his principal learned that rule might be unconstitutional.
(2008/05/10)
DULUTH, Minn. — A judge threw out a lawsuit Friday that had been filed by a man who struck and killed a dog on a highway, then sued the dog’s owners for damage to his car.
(2008/05/10)
ST. PAUL — The proposed Big Stone II power plant suffered a major setback Friday when two administrative law judges recommended against allowing transmission lines from the plant to be built across west-central Minnesota.
(2008/05/10)
ST. PAUL — The heads of a joint House-Senate panel say they still have more questions than answers after a two-hour hearing into a national conference that got Minnesota Department of Natural Resources funds.
(2008/05/10)
ST. PAUL — Lawmakers are ignoring Governor Tim Pawlenty’s threat to veto a minimum wage hike.
(2008/05/10)
ST. PAUL — Five years and more than $8 million into a project plagued by delays and glitches, state human services officials decided to abandon their first attempt to develop software for an online health care sign-up system and start over.
(2008/05/10)
ST. PAUL — A bill requiring regular progress reports on Minnesota’s efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is on its way to Governor Tim Pawlenty.
(2008/05/10)
ST. PAUL — A bill that would force students to remain in school until they are 18-years-old is headed to Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s desk.
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