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Several candidates dropped out of a race for a suburban House seat today, setting up a head-to-head match this month.
And the City of Minneapolis and the U.S. Department of Justice have reached a tentative agreement on a consent decree, which could mandate extensive reforms to the Minneapolis Police Department. Sources confirmed the tentative agreement to MPR News.
Temperatures Thursday night will drop to the single digits and subzero north. We should see partly cloudy skies Friday with temperatures running about 10 degrees below normal.
Former residents of St. Paul’s Lowry Building apartments have been suddenly displaced twice in the last month — once when the troubled building was condemned, and again this week when their temporary housing ended.
Sunday’s Vikings-Lions game will be the first regular season matchup in NFL history between teams with 14 wins. Sunday night’s primetime winner will secure the number one seed, a homefield advantage in the playoffs and a first round bye.
Minnesota’s Psychedelic Medicine Task force came out with their first major report since its formation in 2023. Their recommendations to the Legislature include the decriminalization of some psychedelic drugs.
The Army veteran who drove a pickup truck into a crowd of New Year’s revelers in New Orleans acted alone, the FBI said Thursday, reversing its position from a day earlier that he likely worked with others in the deadly attack that officials said was inspired by the Islamic State group.
Somali refugees, and other immigrant communities, did not always have records of their birth date when they moved to the U.S. When filling out paperwork to resettle in the U.S., many immigrants chose or were assigned Jan. 1 as their birthday.
The highly decorated Army soldier inside a Tesla Cybertruck packed with fireworks that exploded outside Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas shot himself in the head just before detonation, authorities said Thursday.
The start of the year also means the start of a busy time at the state capitol. Several new laws went into effect on New Year’s Day, including a new law banning junk fees and a crackdown on forever chemicals known as PFAS.
The John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon, originally scheduled for late January along the North Shore of Lake Superior, has been postponed to March 2 because of a lack of snow and poor trail conditions.
Xcel Energy has said continuing to operate its two Minnesota nuclear plants, at Prairie Island and Monticello, is critical to its transition to carbon-free electricity. But some critics have raised safety concerns about the aging plant.
A high-profile trial is due to start this month over a state lawmaker’s burglary arrest. A prosecutor wants to keep Nicole Mitchell’s “senator” title away from the jury.
Opponents of a huge lithium mine under construction in Nevada want U.S. officials to investigate whether the project already has caused a drop in groundwater levels that could lead to extinction of a tiny snail.
British rapper Stormzy has been banned from driving for nine months after admitting that he drove his Rolls-Royce through London while using his phone. The 31-year-old whose real name is Michael Ebenazer Owuo Jr. is known for bringing the grime genre of rap into the commercial mainstream.
Ágnes Keleti, a Holocaust survivor and the oldest living Olympic medal winner, has died at age 103. Hungary’s state news agency says Keleti died Thursday morning in Budapest. She was hospitalized in critical condition with pneumonia on Dec. 25.
An 18-year-old girl dreaming of becoming a nurse, a single mother, a father of two and a football star suffered fatal injuries when the driver of a white pickup truck sped onto Bourbon Street, packed with holiday revelers.
The FBI says it recovered the black flag of the Islamic State group from the truck that an American man from Texas smashed into New Year’s partygoers in New Orleans’ French Quarter. Wednesday’s attack killed 15 people.
No. 20 Purdue takes on the Minnesota Golden Gophers after Boilermakers’ 83-64 victory against the Toledo Rockets. Thursday’s meeting is the first this season for the squads. Minnesota is 0-2 against the Big Ten, and Purdue is 1-1 against conference opponents.
No album in the history of the Billboard album chart has ever had a longer gap between stints at No. 1. Elsewhere, Christmas music dominates for one last week.
Today is the deadline for candidates to pull out of the running in two special elections for state legislative seats. Minnesota’s first sled dog race of 2025 has been postponed.
Another chilly day is on tap Thursday with a mix of clouds and sun. Temps dip more Friday into the weekend with the chilly pattern persisting into next week.
Lights returned to households as well as to Puerto Rico’s hospitals, water plants and sewage facilities after the massive outage that exposed the persistent electricity problems plaguing the island.
President Joe Biden says the U.S. Army veteran who drove a pickup truck into a crowd of New Year’s revelers in New Orleans had posted videos to social media hours before the carnage saying he was inspired by the Islamic State group and expressing a desire to kill.
Recent rain and warm weather has forced the postponement of the Gunflint Mail Run, the first sled dog race of the season in Minnesota, originally planned for Jan. 11. Organizers will continue to assess trail conditions and hope to run the race in February.
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