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Good morning! Showers end this morning (yay!) Warm and sunny by afternoon. Highs in the mid-80s. Minnesota is ho stranger to some freaky weather ... but I don't know that we've ever seen anything like this. People in Guadalajara, Mexico, woke up on Sunday to a thick blanket of ice over areas of their city, after a freak hailstorm that damaged houses and left cars partially buried. | Forecast

Flood watches continue as Minnesotans continue to deal with too much water
People who live along southern Minnesota rivers are bracing for more rising water. Forecasts say rain will continue throughout the rest of the week including on Independence Day. | Farmer searches riverbanks for cattle swept away | Rochester, farmers hit hard by torrential rain
Licensing offices to get payouts due to MNLARS
The state will soon be sending out checks to the people who run licensing offices around the state to compensate them for problems they had with MNLARS. | Walz backs scrapping MNLARS, starting over with new software
Minnesota sees a 2 percent decline in abortions in 2018
The overall number of abortions performed in Minnesota declined by 2 percent in 2018, despite an increase in the number of out-of-state women who traveled to Minnesota for the procedure, according to statistics released Monday by the state Department of Health.
Prosecutors charge man in 2016 drive-by that killed Mpls. child
Authorities say 2-year-old Le'Vonte King Jason Jones was hit during an exchange of gunfire between his father and 34-year-old Chris Maurice Welch on a north Minneapolis street. Prosecutors charged Welch with second-degree murder.
Trump says tanks will be part of his July Fourth celebration
The president had wanted a military parade of tanks and other equipment in the District of Columbia after he witnessed a similar parade on Bastille Day in Paris in 2017. That plan eventually was scuttled, partly because of cost, though Trump apparently held on to the idea.
Judge: Andy Warhol didn't violate Prince picture copyright
Andy Warhol transcended a photographer's copyright by transforming a picture of a vulnerable and uncomfortable Prince into an artwork that made the singer an "iconic, larger-than-life figure," a judge ruled Monday.
Ramsey County brings in dog to ease stressful criminal justice system
Norie, a 2-year-old golden retriever, makes her public debut in the Ramsey County Attorney's Office Tuesday. | Sgt. Fuzz joins St. Paul police force as its first comfort dog
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