Greater Minnesota

Storm traps 100 students at SW Minn. school
A winter storm roared into Minnesota on Monday, trapping at least 100 students in their school, closing roads in the southern and southwestern part of the state and prompting the governor to activate the National Guard.
Officials of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America hope to persuade the U.S. Embassy in Haiti to work at recovering the body of a seminarian presumed killed in the earthquake that destroyed much of Port-au-Prince.
Special election will seat new state senator in southern Minn.
A special election Tuesday in the Owatonna area in Southern Minnesota will decide who will fill the seat of longtime Republican state Sen. Dick Day, who announced last month he was leaving the Senate after six terms.
The lawsuit says Dean's 2009 acquisition of Foremost Farms USA's Consumer Products Division eliminates substantial competition in the sale of milk in Wisconsin, Illinois and Michigan.
Wahpeton nurse Brenda Marzigliano and Georgia Dufault, a former Breckenridge, Minn., resident who now works in Moorhead, were stationed at a hospital about 80 miles north of Port-au-Prince when the quake hit.