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More than 70 craft breweries and 1,200 beer aficionados gathered at Boom Island Park in Minneapolis on Saturday for the Autumn Brew Review.

The plan brings together eight counties in the state’s Arrowhead and Headwaters regions and help prepare for the next storm, fire or flood.

The Rochester Area Chamber of Commerce, the second largest chamber in the state, announced it is formally backing Google’s massive and controversial data center proposal, known as Project Skyway.

Authorities say a shooting in Erie, Pennsylvania, has a total of nine people dead, including the suspected shooter. Erie Police Chief Rick Lorah declined to immediately provide more details about the Friday shooting but described the circumstances as “deeply disturbing.”

Christa Pike, who survived Tennessee’s attempt to execute her by lethal injection, has been moved back to prison. That is according to a statement by her attorneys, released Saturday.

President Donald Trump says he has struck a deal to obtain diesel from Russia. It's a stunning reversal of years of U.S. pressure on Moscow over its war with Ukraine and an attempt to address high fuel prices ahead of the U.S. midterm elections.