Good evening! If you're reading this, we hope that means you're already home and won't have to drive in the snow. If you still have to drive home, the snowfall gradually tapers off from west to east Tuesday night. A big swath of central and southern Minnesota will end up with 5 to 10 inches when it’s all done Follow updates from our live weather blog, or check out Updraft for weather coverage. And if you're driving while reading this, don't read and drive. It's just not safe. | Forecast | NewsCut
A woman opened fire at YouTube's headquarters in the San Francisco Bay Area Tuesday, wounding four people before she shot and killed herself and prompting panic as employees hid and tried to flee, police and witnesses said.
Garrison Keillor says he's "ready" to resurrect the two radio shows he founded. But it's unclear whether that'll actually happen — or if he can even legally do that.
Pictures of a smiling Minnesota soldier posing in uniform with his young son convinced a woman from Finland to respond to a Facebook friend request. But the photos were stolen, lifted from the guardsman's real Facebook page and pasted onto another. The woman who believed she was meeting an engaging Minnesotan was unknowingly being lured into a scam.
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright describes herself as an "optimist who worries a lot." And lately, it seems, there has been much to worry about.
The Minnesota Twins may be heading again for history, barely a week into their new season. With temperatures set to plunge into the single digits Wednesday, the team's Thursday home opener may vie for their coldest ever. The current mark: a 34-degree game day against the Los Angeles Angels in 1962 back at Met Stadium. Baseball Reference, by the way, says the thermometer read 33 degrees for the first pitch.
Concordia College in Moorhead has received a $5 million gift to help it add a culturally authentic Korean language village to its seven other language villages in the north woods of Minnesota.
