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Brent Bjorlin and his fellow airline passengers didn't have a clue something had gone wrong at 37,000 feet until federal officials with badges and guns boarded the Northwest plane after [...]

A Prior Lake police officer who is charged with misconduct and three misdemeanor crimes after a dispute with his former girlfriend has been fired from his job. Michael Ficken, who [...]

Streaking down the football field in St. Francis is no laughing matter. It's a crime. St. Francis High School students have been disciplined for streaking at three Saints football games [...]

The line of 40 to 50 men wrapped along the side of the church and into the alley as they waited for their chance at a place to sleep -- [...]

An 18-year-old Minneapolis man has been charged with fatally shooting another 18-year-old man and wounding a 15-year-old boy during a fight last month in a Burger King parking lot in [...]

John W. Dawson believed that an education was the key to unlocking dreams. He lived it. And then he helped make it happen for hundreds of young people throughout his [...]

Shannon Corbin and Katie Pettis were still shaking. Trembling, in fact. 'Oh my God! Oh my God!' Corbin, 17, of Cokato, Minn., shrieked, clutching her Homer Hankie as she and [...]

It was supposed to be a prank that would cause a little commotion in an already rattled Princeton. Instead, two teenagers are facing felony charges for leaving six homemade bombs [...]

The Lund family in Savage really, truly wants to know: Where's Waldo? That would be Waldo, their pet wallaby, who went AWOL sometime between Sunday evening and Monday morning when [...]

So you think you got a good deal on an Italian leather coat? Probably not. Two Italian men were charged this week with forgery after Eagan police busted them for [...]

Back in the dog kennels at the Animal Humane Society, there's a feeling that something is not right with the world. The Humane Society in the Twin Cities is in [...]

St. Paul police squad cars raced to the St. Paul College campus late Wednesday morning and more than 60 police officers, including SWAT team members brandishing automatic rifles, descended on [...]

A Sauk Rapids-Rice, Minn., middle school teacher has been charged with providing alcohol to minors after he reportedly bought beer for high-school age teenagers. Scott D. Richards, 38, of Sauk [...]

Byline: GREGORY A. PATTERSON; MARY LYNN SMITH; STAFF WRITERS St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman easily outdistanced three challengers in the city's mayoral primary Tuesday, garnering 68 percent of the vote. [...]

In a highly unusual move, Carver County prosecutors have filed a criminal complaint against a man known only by his DNA profile. On Nov. 9, 2006, in a quiet suburban [...]

Byline: VINCE TUSS; MARY LYNN SMITH; Staff Writers A 26-year-old Minneapolis man was charged Friday with bringing a replica gun to St. Louis Park High School this week. Shaundarius Morris [...]

Former U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman has been diagnosed with Bell's palsy, a temporary condition that has paralyzed the left side of his face. Doctors told him he shouldn't be left [...]

Prayer, music and prep football tributes around the Twin Cities will commemorate the 8th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks. - A free concert at the Lake Harriet Band [...]

A presidential visit may be in the works for the Twin Cities. President Obama reportedly will be in Minnesota on Saturday, most likely to deliver a speech on health care [...]

Eden Prairie teachers and most of the district's other employees agreed on Tuesday to freeze their wages, a move union leaders and administrators called an unprecedented attempt to preserve jobs [...]

Byline: MARY LYNN SMITH; STAFF WRITER After a woman died last week following a bike collision on one of the most popular trails in the Twin Cities, Three Rivers Park [...]

A small plane crashed Thursday night in Isanti County, and two males on board were flown to a Minneapolis hospital with serious injuries. The Isanti County Sheriff's Office said the [...]

Byline: MARY LYNN SMITH; STAFF WRITER Riding your bike on a trail shouldn't kill you, said Jim Hanson. Two months before a 50-year-old Excelsior woman died after colliding last week [...]

Two teachers accused of repeatedly mocking a student they believed was gay are on leave from their jobs, Anoka-Hennepin School District officials said Tuesday. Diane Cleveland, a 39-year-old social studies [...]

It was going to be a small family reunion of sorts. Carolyn (Carie) Anderson was driving her 88-year-old aunt and her 72-year-old cousin to visit another family member in Hugo [...]

Two former bank executives facing a 29-count federal indictment related to the failed Ramsey Town Center project each pleaded guilty Wednesday to a single charge. In pleading guilty to a [...]

ExpressJet Holdings officials apologized Thursday to the 47 passengers who were stranded for six hours on a grounded jet in Rochester last weekend. ExpressJet was the operator of the Continental [...]

Wayne Monson bought the 1958 twin-engine Beechcraft 18 airplane more than a year ago in hopes of fixing it up to take his sons on vacations around the country. 'It [...]

Arne Rosenlund, a skilled carpenter and homebuilder, left his mark on hundreds of homes in the Twin Cities. As owner and founder of Arne Rosenlund Builders and Contractors, he began [...]

When Jay Schoenberg's St. Paul friends headed to college, he went in search of adventure. 'There was always an adventure to be had with Jay,' said his former Central High [...]

A 35-year-old former Minnesota Army National Guardsman was identified Wednesday as one of four U.S. soldiers killed in Konduz, Afghanistan, when a roadside bomb detonated near their vehicle. He was [...]

A two-week research gig in Brazil has turned into an international waiting game for a 26-year-old graduate student from the University of Minnesota Duluth. Kelly Wendt is one of three [...]

Marvin Ramstad, father of former U.S. congressman Jim Ramstad and Minnesota Tax Court Judge Sheryl Ramstad, died of respiratory failure Wednesday at Methodist Hospital in St. Louis Park. He was [...]

Lawsuits, gun-toting politicians and just plain old political dysfunction in the small town of Greenfield could come with a hefty price tag for taxpayers. The town of 3,000 people in [...]

A medical examiner's report has shed some light on the recent death of the Rev. Tim Vakoc, the Roman Catholic priest from Minnesota who was gravely wounded by a roadside [...]

Minneapolis police officials want to make it clear: Their officers are not the guys with the badges in a YouTube video that shows a gay man being taunted by a [...]

Art was Robert Paul's passion; teaching was his life. He merged the two as a reserve teacher at Minnetonka High School. But as a reserve teacher for 20 years, he [...]

Seventeen Minnesota students earned top honors Thursday in the annual National History Day competition. More than a half-million elementary and secondary students compete each year in the contest. Students extensively [...]

A series of tornadoes tore through Austin on Wednesday night, injuring at least one man, ripping up trees and roofs and throwing the southern Minnesota city of 25,000 people into [...]

A 43-year-old Plymouth man has been charged with robbing a TCF Bank in Brooklyn Center earlier this month. Patrick F. Williams turned himself in to the Brooklyn Center police last [...]

One person was killed when a single-engine plane crashed and burst into flames as it was landing in a downpour late Tuesday at the Crystal Airport. Crystal Deputy Police Chief [...]

A group of Robbinsdale middle-school students were told there was a 'security issue' as they evacuated the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum on Wednesday, but no one in the group had [...]

A teenager was killed and another was injured when a propane tank exploded Wednesday at a busy, sprawling farm supply company in Waconia, just west of the Twin Cities. The [...]

A 44-year-old Lake Elmo man has been charged with drunken driving and child endangerment after leaving a Lakeland ballpark with his son in the car. Joseph Mathew Lenz, who is [...]

Charitable giving has changed over the last decade, and the Charities Review Council wants to change with the times. When the council adopted its current standards in 1998, online giving [...]

Five-year-old Harris Nyumah did Thursday what so many other kids his age do when their balls get away: Carefree and unsuspecting, he chased after the ball as it rolled down [...]

B. Todd Jones, who was U.S. attorney in Minnesota during the last years of the Clinton administration, was nominated Thursday to return to the job by President Obama. Jones was [...]

Outdoor baseball soon will be taken to new heights in Minnesota -- to the roof, to be exact. A roof deck, complete with a fire pit and a bar, will [...]

A pedestrian was injured Tuesday when he was struck by a Metro Transit bus near the Minneapolis Midtown Global Market area. The pedestrian was crossing Lake Street at 12:20 p.m. [...]

Sandy Slathar doesn't even like geese all that much. But when she looked out her Minneapolis office window Tuesday and saw a teenage boy grab a stick and attack a [...]