7-Year-Old, Driver Killed in Crash at Montrose Bus Stop   

A 7-year-old boy waiting for his school bus died Friday morning in a crash that also killed a 47-year-old man...

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Officials Ban "Piggyback Bandit" From Minn. Prep Events   

Minnesota is banning the man known as the "Piggyback Bandit" from high school games in the state...

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Elk River Hockey Coach Resigns Amid Investigation   

Tony Sarsland

A high school hockey coach once suspended for threatening a player abruptly resigned Friday morning.  The Elk River School district tells KSTP.COM Tony Sarsland is currently under investigation.  He is also suspended from his job as a middle school teacher...

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New Radio System Helping Minnesota Prisons   

The Minnesota Department of Corrections now has a new radio system, which was key to providing communication during the recent lock down of all of its prisons...

Admission Surcharge Part of Vikings Stadium Financing Plan   

Ramsey County leaders wrapped up a meeting Friday morning with Governor Dayton where they handed off their latest plan to finance a new Vikings stadium in Arden Hills...

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Mpls Moves to Shut Down Apartments for Code Violations   

A group of Minneapolis apartments that has been around for more than 30 years will be shut down by the end of the month for fire code violations... ..

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Complaint: Brooklyn Park Arsonist Was Upset With Housing Situation

Management at a Brooklyn Park apartment complex had set up surveillance cameras in the laundry room because of two previous fires.  One of those cameras captured this week's fire being set.  Now a suspect has been charged with arson...

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US Increases Travel Warning to 14 Mexican States

The U.S. State Department is recommending that Americans avoid travel to all or parts of 14 of 31 Mexican states in the widest travel advisory issued since Mexico stepped up its drug war in 2006...

Panel OKs Minn. Sex Offender Provisional Discharge

A panel of judges has approved the discharge of a 64-year-old pedophile from Minnesota's Sex Offender program...

Man Convicted of Murdering Columbia Heights Woman

A 36-year-old man was convicted of murder Friday for killing a woman four-and-a-half years ago...

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'There's a Bomb at Your School... Beware. Thank you.'

Ariel Stephanie Rose Koenig

The woman charged with threatening to blow up a middle school in St. Michael is a former student.  That information is from a criminal complaint filed this week that includes quotes from angry phone calls made to a staff member...

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Blood-Stained Comforter Found in Wash. Dad's Storage Unit   

Police in Washington state who searched a storage unit rented by Josh Powell found a stained comforter that tested positive for blood in initial exams, according to documents filed in court Friday...

Crumbling Minn. Capitol Reaches 'Tipping Point'

The Minnesota Capitol building is in dire need of repair soon, but budget pressures in the Legislature are making the expensive upgrade difficult...

Under Fire, Obama Adjusts His Birth Control Policy   

Under fierce election-year fire, President Barack Obama on Friday abruptly abandoned his stand that religious organizations must pay for free birth control for workers, scrambling to end a furor raging from the Catholic Church to Congress to his re-election foes. He demanded that insurance companies step in to provide the coverage instead...

ND College Lockdown Lifted After Prof's Body Found

A lockdown at a North Dakota university has ended after authorities discovered the body of a college administrator who was last seen wandering near campus...

Cottage Grove Man Accused of Assaulting Mass. 14-Year-Old

A Minnesota man has been charged with sexually assaulting a 14-year-old boy inside the teen's Massachusetts home...

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Report: Teacher in LA Molest Case Paid to Resign

The former third-grade teacher who has been charged with committing lewd acts on students was paid $40,000 to drop an appeal of his firing, a newspaper reported Friday...

Governor Dayton Vetoes Lawsuit Reform Bills   

Gov. Mark Dayton has vetoed four Republican-sponsored lawsuit reform bills, and is again criticizing the GOP as "too extreme to lead." Dayton said at a news conference Friday that the bills ignored court recommendations and did not work to create jobs...

Denny Hecker Moved to Yet Another Prison

Denny Hecker has another new home – this time it’s a federal prison in Indiana...

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Minneapolis RV Show Features Budget, Fuel Friendly Models   

The 45th annual RV & Camping Show is taking over the Minneapolis Convention Center this weekend...

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Rough Seas Delay Oil Pumping Operations at Cruise Ship Wreck

Rough seas on Friday continued to delay oil pumping operations on the wrecked Costa Concordia cruise liner, off the Tuscan coast...

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Sandusky Takes Stand Over Request for Local Jury

Jerry Sandusky says a local jury would be no more or less biased against him in his child sex abuse trial than a jury from anywhere else in Pennsylvania...

GOP Senate Leader Says 3 Wis. Recalls Will Proceed

The Republican leader of the state Senate says he expects recall elections to proceed against three of his colleagues, despite challenges they have made to thousands of signatures on petitions seeking their ouster from office.

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New SurveyUSA Poll Shows Support for Marriage Amendment   

A new SurveyUSA/5 EYEWITNESS News poll shows more Minnesotans in favor of a marriage amendment to the constitution than against it...

Dad Who Blew Up Home had 'Incestuous Images' on Computer

Before Josh Powell was going to try to win back custody of his children last week, Washington state authorities received materials from Utah police that had been discovered on a computer in Powell's home two years ago...

US Bishops Reserve Judgment on Birth Control Rule

The head of the nation's Roman Catholic bishops says it's too soon to tell whether the Obama administration's revamped rule on birth control will address the church's objections...

Deadly Force Gun Bill Heads to Full Minn. Senate   

Minnesota residents would have greater freedom to defend their homes with deadly force under a bill headed to the state Senate floor over the objections of police, who said it could endanger officers...

MN Somali Advocates: Terrorist Merger is Sign of Weakness   

Somali-based terror organization al Shabaab has officially pledged its allegiance to global terror organization Al Qaeda...

GOP Candidates to Woo Conservatives at Big Event

Three of the four Republican presidential candidates are addressing a major conservative gathering in Washington, giving them a high-profile stage to reshape their messages at a moment of uncertainty in the contest...

Nearly 1 in 20 US Adults Over 50 have Fake Knees

Nearly 1 in 20 Americans older than 50 have artificial knees, or more than 4 million people, according to the first national estimate showing how common these replacement joints have become in an aging population...