Fernando Valdez-Alvarez, 19, of Minneapolis, admitted in court to shooting and killing 15-year-old Jahmari Rice and wounding another 17-year-old last year outside the South Education Center in Richfield. "Just the fact of him saying that he didn't intend to kill my son, but you shoot two kids in the chest. Well what do you think is going to happen?"

The city said testing by the Minnesota Department of Health, reported to the city in January, found the level of combined radium at the city’s water treatment plant was 6.0 picocuries per liter (pCi/L). The allowable standard for drinking water is 5.4 pCi/L.

Last year, nearly a third of Minnesota students reported they struggle with long-term mental health problems. Rates of depression and anxiety have skyrocketed. And there aren't enough  mental health professionals to help. Schools are on the front line of this fight, and many say this crisis could usher in a new way of looking at education.

Some residents are worried about the impacts on the region's groundwater after a proposed bottled water plant in Elko New market. They petitioned the DNR to require an environmental assessment worksheet. But the DNR has rejected that request, saying they didn't provide evidence that the project would have significant impacts on groundwater or nearby water bodies, such as the Vermillion River.

“It needs to be seen, it doesn't need to be in my studio doesn't need to be in storage. You know, and I don't want the piece to go to a museum, because museums only cater to a certain demographic of people."

The non-alcoholic beverage industry is exploding right now, thanks in part to a St. Paul business . In 2017, ABV Technology set out to create a non-alcoholic beer that “actually tasted good." The tech had already been around for a long time, but not at a price point that let craft brewers join the market with their more refined brews.