ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The Minnesota Court of Appeals on Monday said state regulators must conduct a further review for Enbridge Energy's plan to replace its deteriorating Line 3 crude oil pipeline because the project's environmental impact statement doesn't address the possibility of an oil ...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Firefighters have rescued a worker who fell at a construction site in downtown Minneapolis. Crews were called late Monday morning to the site of the new Minneapolis Public Service Center that is under construction. The Star Tribune reports dozens of people watched from ...
FOSSTON, Minn. (AP) — Authorities in northwestern Minnesota have charged a 28-year-old man with murder in the fatal weekend assault of his brother on a street in Fosston. Prosecutors charged Nicholas Hauge of Fergus Falls with two counts of second-degree murder in the death of 19-year-old ...
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg (BOO'-tuh-juhj) says he would not have pressured Democrat Al Franken to resign from the Senate at the time some of his 2020 rivals did. Buttigieg was asked about Franken at an MSNBC town hall Monday. Several of his ...
ST. PETER, Minn. (AP) — A Minnesota college student is among 21 youth plaintiffs in a lawsuit that accuses the federal government of destabilizing the climate system for present and future generations. Nathan Baring is an environmental student activist on the Gustavus Adolphus College campus ...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A teenage driver distracted by her cellphone who pleaded guilty to killing an off-duty Blaine police officer and his wife on their motorcycle has been sentenced to 60 days in jail. The Star Tribune reports 18-year-old Callison M. Olson, of Elk River, was sentenced last ...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Authorities say a South Dakota couple was killed after their motorcycle collided with a farm trailer that broke free from a tractor southwest of the Twin Cities. The Star Tribune reports the crash occurred shortly after 4 p.m. Saturday in Arlington Township. The State ...
By MARA GOTTFRIED Twin Cities Pioneer Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Police rushed to a St. Paul middle school last month after a report of a student carrying a handgun in his pocket during gym class. It turned out to be a realistic-looking BB gun that fell from his pants as he played ...
ROCHESTER, Minn. (AP) — Officials in southeastern Minnesota say a wandering bison has been found and put down. The Olmsted County Sheriff's Office posted on Facebook that a citizen spotted the bison in a wooded area of Rochester Township on Friday evening. Deputies contacted the bison's ...
AURORA, Minn. (AP) — A damaged switch tower has knocked out power in the city of Aurora in northeastern Minnesota. Minnesota Power says a contractor was doing work in the area when the tower that feeds the substation for the city was damaged around 8 a.m. Saturday. Company spokeswoman Amy ...
DULUTH, Minn. (AP) — A defendant accused of killing a man during a robbery in St. Louis County has pleaded guilty to murder. Darrel Mayhew has admitted to killing 70-year-old Larry Watczak at his Duluth home last January. Prosecutors say Mayhew struck Watczak in the head with a bottle, took ...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Attorneys for the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of fatally shooting an unarmed woman in 2017 plan to ask a sentencing judge for no prison time. If that's not granted, they're seeking less prison time than state sentencing guidelines recommend. Mohamed Noor's ...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A former Eden Prairie police detective whom authorities say falsified a search warrant in a drug case will not face criminal charges. McLeod County Attorney Michael Junge says Friday that Travis Serafin won't face criminal punishment for intentionally giving false ...
CHASKA, Minn. (AP) — Prince's former bodyguard answered questions from attorneys for seven hours as part of a wrongful death lawsuit filed by relatives of the late rock star. Kirk Johnson's attorney told KSTP-TV that Wednesday's deposition at the Carver County Courthouse was difficult for ...
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz on Thursday signed a $20 billion education funding bill, the first in a series of budget bills approved by lawmakers in last week's special session. Walz signed the E-12 education bill at Bruce Vento Elementary School in St. Paul, with Lt. Gov. ...
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Abortion-rights supporters filed a lawsuit Wednesday seeking to overturn Minnesota's restrictions on abortion, including its 24-hour waiting period and parental notification requirements. The lawsuit, filed by Gender Justice and the Lawyering Project, argues that the ...
MACKINAC ISLAND, Mich. (AP) — Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said Wednesday she will move in June to shut a Great Lakes oil pipeline if the governor cannot reach a resolution with operator Enbridge, saying the state is in "great peril" the longer the oil continues to flow under a ...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Prosecutors have charged a 39-year-old woman with fatally stabbing another woman after an argument in downtown Minneapolis. Shermeika Franklin of Minneapolis was charged Wednesday with second-degree murder in the killing of 42-year-old Mesheka Willis. Willis was stabbed in ...
GRAND MARAIS, Minn. (AP) — Officials in northern Minnesota have ordered a temporary halt to construction on land linked to a man who led a secretive polygamous sect's compound in South Dakota. Cook County officials issued the cease-and-desist order Friday to a company tied to Seth Jeffs. ...
BECKER, Minn. (AP) — Residents in a central Minnesota community have mixed feelings about the closure of a coal-fired plant that employs hundreds of people and provides three-fourths of the city's tax revenue. Most Becker residents weren't shocked by Xcel Energy's announcement last week that ...