Fiery crash on icy highway kills 2, injures 1
Two people have died and a third person has been injured in a fiery crash on an icy highway in Winona County.
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Ex-cop pleads guilty to killing woman, ditching body
A former suburban Milwaukee police officer accused of killing two women and ditching their bodies in suitcases along a rural Wisconsin highway pleaded guilty Monday in one of their deaths.
Archbishop Nienstedt leaves Michigan parish after backlash
A priest is leaving a Battle Creek parish as some members of the southwestern Michigan diocese became angered to learn that he led a Minnesota archdiocese during a clergy sex abuse scandal.
White Earth chairwoman resigns in dispute over tribe's constitution
The White Earth Tribal Council has accepted the resignation of its embattled chairwoman.
Burglary suspect dies in business fire in northern Minnesota
A northern Minnesota man died after authorities say he refused to leave a burning convenience store that they believe he entered illegally.
University professor pleads guilty to smuggling ivory
A college professor pleaded guilty Wednesday to illegally smuggling items made of elephant ivory and agreed to pay a $500,000 fine that prosecutors say should be a deterrent to such activity.
Authorities charge 4 Ojibwe treaty rights protesters
Authorities have charged four American Indians with fishing and wild rice harvesting violations stemming from a protest last summer to assert rights they claim they still hold under treaties from the 1800s, setting up a potential court test of how those treaties should be applied now.
Special session hung up over details _ or lack of them
Hopes for a quick special session faded Wednesday when Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton and Republican House Speaker Kurt Daudt accused one another of acting in bad faith to solve the state's driver's license dilemma and assist sidelined steelworkers.
Shakopee inmate accused of fraud scheme
Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson is accusing a state prison inmate of trying to defraud the state's Medical Assistance program.
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Minnesota health officials warn of new norovirus strain
Health officials say Minnesota is getting hit by a new strain of norovirus, the most common cause of sudden intestinal illness.
Charges: Driver who fatally struck Duluth pedestrian had been using heroin
Prosecutors say a Duluth man was under the influence of heroin when he was driving a car that struck and killed a pedestrian.
Mall of America asks judge to bar Black Lives Matter protest
Black Lives Matter protesters vowed on Monday to demonstrate at the Mall of America on the busy shopping day before Christmas Eve, regardless of whether a judge grants the mall's request to bar them from doing so.
Local
Faribault coach: Disputed HS dance title won 'fair and square'
Other teams say Faribault copied an out-of-state team's moves. The MSHSL determined before the tournament that Faribault did not rip off its dance routine.
Local
Peterson surprised wolf item was dropped from budget bill
Backers of a proposal to take wolves in the western Great Lakes region and Wyoming off the endangered list are surprised that it didn't make it into a massive year-end congressional tax and spending package.
Mayor, teacher in small Minn. town killed same day in separate accidents
A small town in northern Minnesota lost its mayor and a teacher in separate deadly accidents on the same day and on the same stretch of highway.
Politics
Dayton pressures steel company to repay Minnesota vendors
Gov. Mark Dayton is pressuring a steel company that received a hefty government loan to quickly repay private Minnesota vendors or risk him seeking immediate reimbursement of the $66 million state note.
Local
Williston, N.D., moves closer to banning man camps in city limits
Some people believe crew camps are unsightly and feed crime problems in the city.
Big bass fishing tournament heads to Mille Lacs Lake
A major bass fishing tournament is heading to Mille Lacs Lake next year amid ongoing concerns about its walleye population.
Wisconsin convent says prayer has gone on nonstop since Aug. 1, 1878
Flooding, snowstorms, a flu outbreak, even a fire — any of those might have slowed a group of Wisconsin nuns who say none of it has kept their order from praying nonstop for hundreds of thousands of people over the last 137 years.
Business
Target closing 13 stores nationwide citing falling profits
Target plans to close 13 stores nationwide, including one in New Ulm and two others in Milwaukee and Superior, Wisconsin.
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