Dozens of residents called 911 with reports of gunfire early Saturday morning, according to Minneapolis police. Officers say they found a man with an AK-47 style rife, a handgun and a backpack with several magazines of ammunition.
Just one month into the school year, four people were ripped away from their loved ones, their lives ended by a mass shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, Ga.
“Obviously what you see behind us is an evil thing today,” Barrow County Sheriff Jud Smith said as he stood in front of Apalachee High School. A suspect was taken into custody, authorities say.
A campfire exploded in a northern Minnesota township near Side Lake, Minn. killing one person and injuring several others, some critically. Flammable liquid that caused the explosion remains unknown.
As of Saturday, $6.8 million has been approved for 1,400 Minnesota residents, according to FEMA. Recovery centers are open Monday through Saturday from 7:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. and will temporarily close for Labor Day on Sept. 2.
People were killed and injured in an attack on Friday at a festival in the city of Solingen in western Germany, the news agency dpa reported. It wasn’t immediately clear how many casualties there were.
A railway bridge in Ontario — just north of the Minnesota border — collapsed Wednesday, blocking rail and boat traffic. The span is known as the Five-Mile Bridge, and crosses a channel of Rainy Lake.
Two people are dead after a four-story residential apartment building caught fire Tuesday, officials with the Minneapolis Fire Department announced Thursday.
Four people — including two children — died Wednesday when a semi crashed into stopped vehicles in a construction zone along a northeast Minnesota highway.