The National Weather Service sent out teams to survey the damage and determine whether any of it was caused by tornadoes. Weather spotters had reported seeing at least four tornadoes as the storms moved across central Minnesota on Wednesday night.
A strongly worded report from the Minnesota Legislative Auditor's office finds that "actions and inactions" by the Minnesota Department of Education opened the door for fraud in two taxpayer-funded child nutrition programs.
A man who reportedly was seen waving a handgun was fatally shot by police in south Minneapolis on Wednesday night. The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension confirmed that it has responded to the shooting and is investigating.
Minnesota’s women’s pre-professional soccer team, Aurora, could be on the cusp of going pro, three years after it first formed. The club has attracted enough investment to make a second bid to join the National Women’s Soccer League.
Unusually bold, visionary leaders have captured 24 prestigious 2024 Bush Foundation community fellowships. Antony Stately, Oneida and Ojibwe, of Prior Lake, Minnesota, is among those who beat out 558 other applicants for the esteemed award.
Adam Fravel, 30, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of 26-year-old Madeline Kingsbury. She disappeared from Winona in late March of last year. Her body was found more than two months later in Fillmore County.
The U.S. sailors going to the Paris Olympics are looking for a comeback in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Marseille — perhaps none more than veteran Stu McNay , returning for his fifth Olympics but competing in a new mixed-gender category.
The Minnesota Board of Animal Health now requires a negative test for the H5N1 virus before a lactating dairy cow can attend any exhibition for “display or judging.”
