The Associated Press

Minnesota lawmakers are bearing down for the legislative session's homestretch. Monday marks one week until the mandatory adjournment deadline. Much is left to do

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A Bloomington man walking his two dogs was injured after falling into a sinkhole.

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Two Minneapolis police officers who were wounded in a shooting are in satisfactory condition at a local hospital. The Minneapolis Police Department released the officers' condition Saturday on Twitter, and said no additional information would be released until Monday.

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A Minnesota businessman convicted in 2009 of running a $3.5 billion Ponzi scheme is now trying to get his 50-year prison sentence thrown out. Tom Petters is claiming his defense attorney never told him that prosecutors had offered a 30-year prison sentence in exchange for a guilty plea.

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Volunteers are continuing to search for an Eden Prairie woman who has been missing since May 1. The search for Mandy Matula continues after a week in which the bodies of two other missing Twin Cities-area women, Kira Steger and Danielle Jelinek, were found.

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Authorities in eastern Minnesota say a body pulled from a small lake is that of an Oakdale woman missing for five months. The Chisago County sheriff's office says crews recovered the woman's body from the water Friday.

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The Minnesota Senate has revived the possibility of raising the gas tax for roadwork and a metropolitan area sales tax for mass transit in a sudden change to a transportation finance plan.

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Authorities in western Minnesota say buffaloes trampled two young boys who wandered into a fenced-in area. The Otter Tail County sheriff's office says the boys, both age 3, wandered Friday from their Battle Lake home into a secure area where the buffalo were being kept.

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Minneapolis police say a suspect is dead after a shootout that injured two officers.

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The boyfriend of a slain Minnesota teenager has pleaded guilty in her stabbing death. Seventeen-year-old Anthony Mitchell of Maplewood pleaded as an adult Friday after waiving his adult certification hearing.

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