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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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