SD Indian Education draws leader from retirement Longtime educator Lowell Amiotte is leaving retirement and takes over June 9 as director of the South Dakota Office of Indian Education.June 8, 2014
Capitol evacuated briefly after airspace violation The evacuation was ordered about 1:30 p.m. Saturday. A Capitol Police spokeswoman says the pilot of the aircraft did not immediately communicate after it flew into restricted space, and that's what led to the evacuation.June 7, 2014
Hundreds of couples rush to marry in Wisconsin Milwaukee County Clerk Joe Czarnezki said couples were lined up outside his courthouse at 6 a.m., three hours before it opened. Within 30 minutes of opening, about 45 couples had applied for marriage licenses.June 7, 2014
Injured black bear killed in West St. Paul Police in West St. Paul say they've killed an injured black bear that may have been the same bear that had been recently spotted in Savage, Eagan and other southern Twin Cities suburbs.June 7, 2014
Poet Maya Angelou remembered at memorial service Family, friends and famous admirers led by Clinton, first lady Michelle Obama and Oprah Winfrey gathered in a chapel at Wake Forest University on Saturday to remember Angelou, one of the 20th century's most famous black writers.June 7, 2014
On the Mississippi, a chance for vets to talk fishing, war The Minnesota Army National Guard held its fourth annual Trolling for Troops event, bringing veterans to Camp Ripley to fish 18 miles of Mississippi River as it flows through the military base.June 6, 2014
Tracking road kill? There's an app for that A team of scientists at Utah State University have developed tool in the hopes that "citizen scientists" will help them compile a road kill database. "We wanted to call it the Roadkill Reporter," one of them says, but the Utah Department of Transportation asked them to tine that down a little.June 6, 2014
Photos: Dogs with bad reps need homes too For the first time, the city of Minneapolis is making so-called "power dogs" available for adoption at its animal shelter. This includes Dobermans, Rottweilers and pit bulls.June 5, 2014
A mother's teaching saves a girl by the side of the road No matter what happens the rest of the way, Tracy Adams can well be considered one great mother. She's the mother of the sixth-grader who was standing by the side of the road in Hawick, Minnesota, when the school bus pulled up and this happened.June 4, 2014
Last of original group of Navajo Code Talkers dies Chester Nez was in the 10th grade when a Marine recruiter went to the Navajo reservation looking for young men who were fluent in Navajo and English.June 4, 2014
Social media giving suburban bears undue attention Bears typically do not stay in the metro, but are passing through the river corridors to find natural habitats after hibernation, she added. They get sidetracked by food sources in people's yards or around their houses.June 3, 2014