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After some audience members booed Somalis at President Trump's rally in Minneapolis, local leaders have tried to assure refugees that they are welcome. MINNEAPOLIS -- At a suburban supermarket a [...]

GORDON, Wis. -- When Jayme Closs, 13, vanished on the night that her parents were fatally shot in their rural home, scores of law enforcement officials converged on western Wisconsin. [...]

MINNEAPOLIS -- When Bryan Dahlmeier, a 41-year-old manager of a body shop, first heard that Senator Al Franken was accused of groping a woman, he was willing to extend him [...]

Four women met late last month at a restaurant in a Twin Cities suburb, where they spoke for hours, so intently their waiter had trouble getting their drink orders. Each [...]

Four women met late last month at a restaurant in a Twin Cities suburb, where they spoke for hours, so intently their waiter had trouble getting their drink orders. Each [...]

MASONVILLE, Iowa -- Lavern Kelchen stood in the back of a church hall in jeans and a buffalo-check shirt, tapped his left index finger on his leg and placed the [...]

ST. PAUL -- The suburban police officer who fatally shot Philando Castile, the black driver whose last moments this summer were streamed live on Facebook, was charged on Wednesday with [...]

ST. PAUL -- The county attorney here said Friday that he would not step aside in the fatal police shooting of Philando Castile, despite requests from Mr. Castile's family that [...]

ST. PAUL -- Demonstrators angered by the fatal police shooting of a black man during a suburban traffic stop kept vigil outside the governor's mansion here Friday as officials urged [...]

BLOOMINGTON, Minn. -- They marched into the country's largest mall, hoping to draw attention to a killing last month of an unarmed black man by the police in North Minneapolis. [...]

MINNEAPOLIS -- This city's struggle with terrorism recruitment showed itself on two fronts Wednesday. In the morning, a Somali-American teenager admitted in court here that he had tried to flee [...]

Byline: CHRISTINA CAPECCHI and KATIE ROGERS BLOOMINGTON, Minn. -- Two signs posted on the door of a nondescript dental office here asked passers-by to mourn the death of Cecil, a [...]

BLOOMINGTON, Minn. -- Two signs posted on the door of a nondescript dental office here asked passers-by to mourn the death of Cecil, a lion who was lured off his [...]

ST. PAUL -- Jesse Ventura, the wrestler-turned-politician, looked slighter than he once had and more buttoned down, in pinstripes and glasses. Yet as Mr. Ventura, the former Minnesota governor, testified [...]

Byline: CHRISTINA CAPECCHI FOWLER, Mich. -- Aside for the mole grazing his right eyebrow, it is difficult to distinguish Gary Koenigsknecht from his identical twin, Todd, four minutes the elder. [...]

FOWLER, Mich. -- Aside for the mole grazing his right eyebrow, it is difficult to distinguish Gary Koenigsknecht from his identical twin, Todd, four minutes the elder. Growing up, the [...]

MINNEAPOLIS -- The building of a nearly $1 billion Minnesota Vikings stadium has become the impetus for resuscitating a barren stretch of this city's downtown that Gov. Mark Dayton called [...]

Byline: CHRISTINA CAPECCHI and STEVEN YACCINO MINNEAPOLIS -- Hildagard Omete, 36, a mother of three who has been unemployed for a year and a half, went job hunting. Sitting at [...]

MINNEAPOLIS -- Hildagard Omete, 36, a mother of three who has been unemployed for a year and a half, went job hunting on Monday. Sitting at the public library scanning [...]

An explosion and fire on Wednesday destroyed a Minneapolis building that housed 10 apartments and a grocery, injuring at least 14 people, the authorities said. Most of injuries were burns [...]

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- A bracing wave of Arctic air swept across much of the nation on Wednesday, suddenly turning what had been a relatively mild winter into a shivering [...]

Angelina Sam couldn't afford to celebrate Christmas last year, serving peanut butter, soup and rice for the holiday meal. And she didn't buy gifts for her husband or 2-year-old son. [...]

BLOOMINGTON, Minn. -- Here in the land of 10,000 lakes and countless backyard ponds, home of the coaching legend Herb Brooks and his largely Minnesotan Miracle on Ice Olympians, where [...]

ST. PAUL -- The Pentagon released the names Thursday of the 30 American servicemen, including 22 members of the Navy Seals, killed last week when the Taliban shot down a [...]

MINNEAPOLIS -- Where once there were Vikings, there may now be wimps. That was the fear among longtime Minnesota Vikings fans as their beleaguered team prepared for its first outdoor [...]

DELHI, Iowa -- What was a sparkling lake last week is now a muddy graveyard. The skeletons are mangled white boatlifts wedged in rocky sandbars. After heavy rains forced a [...]

DELHI, Iowa -- When your life and livelihood are so dependent on a lake, as Chris Stender's are, a flood like the one that hit his hometown here over the [...]

DELHI, Iowa -- Heavy rain ruptured the Lake Delhi dam on Saturday, sending a torrent into the Maquoketa River below and forcing the evacuation of hundreds of homes and vacation [...]

After an emotional debate over the authority of Scripture and the limits of biblical inclusiveness, leaders of the country's largest Lutheran denomination voted Friday to allow gay men and lesbians […]

Leaders of the nation's largest Lutheran denomination began a civil but tense debate here on Thursday on whether to ordain gay men and lesbians, an issue that is likely to […]

Amid the soybean fields and silos on the outskirts of this town, a testament to the Hindu faith, a 43,000-square-foot temple, has risen. The location, direction (facing east) and elevation […]

The protracted Senate race in Minnesota is not likely to be resolved before the new Congress is sworn in on Jan. 6, the secretary of state said Tuesday. The State […]

No one would mistake Hastings, Minn., in late November 2008 for West Palm Beach, Fla., in late November 2000. Hypervigilance, an abiding regard for the rules, and, yes, some of […]

The vote gap between the two candidates in Minnesota's still-undecided Senate race -- the longest, closest and costliest in state history -- has narrowed since Election Day, but the hostility […]

Flashing headlights and honking horns penetrated the early-morning sky as police officers and first responders led drivers in a slow procession across the new Interstate 35W bridge in Minneapolis. Hundreds […]

ST. PAUL -- A lawyer for Senator Larry E. Craig asked the Minnesota Court of Appeals on Wednesday to allow Mr. Craig to withdraw a guilty plea to disorderly conduct […]

A Minnesota college student looking to profit off his political indifference has been charged with a felony for trying to sell his vote on the auction Web site eBay. The […]

State officials have closed a bridge over the Mississippi River after finding problems similar to those suspected of contributing to the fatal collapse of the Interstate 35W bridge in downtown […]

In flesh and blood, former Gov. Jesse Ventura is stubborn and unvarnished. In oil paint, it is a different story, which is good news for the two high school freshmen […]

Perhaps they will be able to share some tuna hotdish and work things out, but right now the spat between Garrison Keillor and a next-door neighbor is proving a good […]

A man suspected of luring 100 Asian women into a sex ring here has been charged in federal court with transporting women across state lines to engage in prostitution. The […]

Three months after the Interstate 35W bridge collapsed, construction of a replacement began here on Wednesday. The rebuilding follows a judge's rejection of a request for a restraining order to […]

Across office cubicles and over radio airwaves, residents here are making known their often-lukewarm opinions about the recently unveiled design for the bridge to replace that downtown section of Interstate […]