A new national report estimates more than 30 million adults in the U.S. drove under the influence of alcohol at least once in the past year. The study shows the highest rates of drinking and driving are in the upper Midwest.
(05/09/2008)
Three eighth graders in western Minnesota
were suspended this week for sitting down during the Pledge of Allegiance.
(05/09/2008)
Ten years ago today, the state of Minnesota and Blue Cross Blue Shield reached a landmark settlement with the major tobacco companies.
(05/08/2008)
A former chairman of the Leech Lake Band of
Ojibwe has pleaded guilty to two counts of accepting bribes from a
man who operated a check-cashing service in the tribe's casinos.
(05/08/2008)
The Eden Valley City Hall had to be evacuated Tuesday, after someone brought in a pipe bomb they had found in a storage shed.
(05/07/2008)
The Minnesota Supreme Court heard arguments today on whether courts can seal conviction records held by other branches of government.
(05/06/2008)
The state's appeal court says the state's
utilities commission must reconsider its decision to block CenterPoint Energy from recovering $21 million from customers that it underbilled over four years.
(05/06/2008)
A proposal to ask Ramsey County voters whether their sheriff should be elected or appointed failed by one vote last night.
(05/06/2008)
Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor recently discussed the importance of preserving impartial courts and fair judicial elections at the University of Minnesota's Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs.
(Midday,
05/05/2008)
The Minnesota Supreme Court wiil hold a hearing Wednesday on whether a federal judge in Minneapolis has the authority to reject a settlement reached in a lawsuit against UnitedHealth Group.
(05/05/2008)
Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor said Minnesota should consider adopting Arizona's method for choosing judges.
(05/02/2008)
An autopsy shows that a woman killed herself
in the Hennepin County on Wednesday after she was arrested for
allegedly driving under the influence.
(05/01/2008)
The Minnesota Supreme Court said today it won't take up the state's appeal of a decision that exempts churches from the state's conceal and carry handgun law.
(05/01/2008)
The man convicted a second time in the
shooting death of an 11-year-old Minneapolis girl as she did her homework is sentenced to life in prison.
(05/01/2008)
A judge has refused to free a former
1970s radical and longtime fugitive who was sent back to prison
days after state corrections officials released her by mistake.
(04/29/2008)









