Good morning! It's rainy, it's snowing, it's a little bit of everything as a winter storm moves across Minnesota. Moderate to heavy snow will continue in west-central Minnesota, while southeastern Minnesota -- including the Twin Cities -- should mainly see rain Thursday. A winter storm warning remains in effect for northern and parts of west-central Minnesota until noon Friday. Stick with MPR News for continuing coverage. | What's on MPR News today? | Forecast
Somali women may forgo breast and cervical cancer screening thinking that it's immodest. Persistent cancer screening disparities have prompted an effort to reach out to the community with culturally-aware messages and support.
Former police officer Mohamed Noor is scheduled to go on trial in April for shooting and killing of a 911 caller Justine Ruszczyk, also known with the surname Damond, in July 2017 last year.
Anak Krakatau, whose partial collapse is blamed for triggering Saturday's tsunami that killed at least 430 people, remains active -- spewing ash over a large area around the Sunda Strait.
The Opjorden family in Milan, Minn., is among only a handful in the country who has continuously supplied data to the National Weather Service for so many years.
In the 1940s, the U.S. government used census data to locate and wrongfully incarcerate Japanese-Americans. Some are now speaking out against plans to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census.
Rescue workers described the operation as "miraculous" because they said chances of survival are minuscule after 15 minutes under the snow. Police said among the reasons the boy survived is that his airways were not blocked by snow.
