Even though 22 percent more cash-paying customers are riding Southwest Transit buses this year, C.E.O. Len Simich says that isn't generating enough revenue to pay higher-than-expected fuel bills. That could lead to a fare increase later this year.
The State Patrol defended its use of a Taser on a Fridley man. The stun gun was used after he punched a trooper and tried to drive from a crash scene in rush hour.
The principal of South Washington County's new high school will take the controversy of choosing school colors to the voters -- 1,000 seventh, eighth and ninth graders who will attend East Ridge High School when it opens in the fall of 2009.
Writings by Michael Anderson, accused of killing a would-be baby sitter, may become evidence.
Dodging more than $500,000 in federal taxes now means two years in prison for a Minnesota businessman.
Beginning Sunday, television stations will be setting aside time to air public service announcements celebrating the state's natural history and environmental heroes one minute at a time.
Police have found one of two collector cars that were stolen from an Edina garage, but they're still looking for the other vehicle and the crook who took them.
Postal carriers will do more than deliver the mail on Saturday. They'll be collecting donations of non-perishable food items as part of their national "Stamp Out Hunger" campaign.
Two oversight committees of the Senate and House held a joint hearing today to question Mark Holsten about the game warden conference that cost the state more than $300,000.
A pit bull that attacked a dachshund in a Duluth neighborhood last week has been destroyed, police said today.
The mom's boyfriend of three months was jailed after allegedly hitting the 7-month-old baby in their Spring Lake Park apartment.
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