The Associated Press

The Minnesota Department of Veterans Affairs has launched a newly redesigned website aimed at giving the state's veterans improved access to job opportunities, information about healthcare options and benefits, and other services.

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Police in Moorhead say a 5-month-old girl has died after being left in a minivan for hours. Moorhead police identified the dead girl as Christiana Natany Sandstrom.

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Xcel Energy says it has addressed federal regulators' concerns about flood protection at its Monticello nuclear power plant. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Xcel began re-evaluating flooding hazards following the 2011 tsunami that crippled reactors at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant in Japan.

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A Richfield man is accused of fatally shooting an acquaintance who was allegedly bullying him. Twenty-one-year-old Jonathan Tadeo Bello-Sanchez was charged Tuesday with second-degree murder.

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Duluth police say a car crash led to an officer-involved shooting that killed a 26-year-old man. Police say the driver had fled after the single-vehicle crash happened just before 2 a.m. Tuesday.

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The worst may be over for drivers in Michigan and other upper Midwest states who have been grappling with the highest gasoline prices in the continental U.S. Analysts said Tuesday a major refinery is back online and another is on track with a major reconfiguration.

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Consumers hoping for official quotes on how much they might have to pay for health plans sold on Minnesota's health insurance exchange, dubbed MNsure, are going to have to wait. Several other states, including California and Oregon, have already published the premium rates that health insurers want to charge for plans to be sold on the exchanges in those states.

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A rapid construction timetable surrounds a new legislative office building in the shadow of Minnesota's Capitol, which is about to undergo a renovation of its own.

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Authorities say a 3-year-old boy has drowned in a lake in Nisswa.

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St. Cloud State University professors say some students transcripts have been changed without the instructors input - and that's an ethical breach. Faculty association president Stephen Hornstein says students' grades were disappearing from their transcripts without instructors being notified.

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