A new arcade game is popping up in Twin Cities bars, but the prize isn't a teddy bear or fuzzy dice. It's a live lobster.
(05/05/2011)
A Metro Transit bus and a passenger vehicle collided Wednesday morning in downtown St. Paul, causing the bus to hit the Alliance Bank Center building, transit police said.
(05/04/2011)
Republican Sen. Sheila Harsdorf has served in the Wisconsin Legislature for more than 20 years, and has a reputation as a moderate, but her vote in favor of Gov. Scott Walker's budget bill has divided constituents in a typically red district.
(05/03/2011)
A citizen task force in charge of guiding the redevelopment of the Ford plant in St. Paul will meet Monday night to discuss how sustainable the site should be.
(05/02/2011)
Metropolitan Council officials signed an agreement Tuesday that commits federal dollars to the Central Corridor light rail project.
(04/26/2011)
The Federal Transit Administration says it will keep closer tabs on the Metropolitan Council in light of community concerns over a light-rail line connecting St. Paul and Minneapolis.
(04/25/2011)
In addition to earlier terrorism-related charges, he's now accused in a conspiracy to arm Somali fighters.
(04/21/2011)
The St. Paul mayor is concerned with financing for a new Vikings stadium, but is throwing his full support behind a new ballpark for the St. Paul Saints.
(04/21/2011)
Long the work of police officers and social workers, family violence increasingly is being studied by doctors. Some say abuse in the home, especially of children, is as much a medical problem as a social one. About 100 people from around the country are at a conference in Bloomington today, to discuss new studies that suggest early exposure to family violence can lead to illnesses that may last a lifetime.
(04/15/2011)
A Minneapolis-based relief group is working with Somali-Americans in Minnesota to launch a new aid program in their East African homeland.
(04/13/2011)
A group of Dakota Indian activists plans to cast a gill net in a Twin Cities lake on May 13, a day before the fishing opener.
(04/12/2011)
The Minneapolis Police Department is graduating its first all-Somali class from a youth citizens academy Monday afternoon. It's an interesting twist, given that a lot of young people in the Cedar-Riverside area have complained about police harassment.
(04/11/2011)
Mixed-martial arts, a mix of boxing, kicking, wrestling and martial arts, is more popular than boxing in Minnesota. But the sport that some call "human cockfighting" also has its share of critics.
(04/08/2011)
A court-monitoring group found disparities between how Minneapolis and suburban courts in Hennepin County are handling domestic-violence cases.
(04/06/2011)
A report that will be released Wednesday says repeat offenders of misdemeanor-level domestic violence are less likely to be detected in suburban courts of Hennepin County than in the downtown Minneapolis court.
(04/05/2011)
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