State/Regional News

The Minnesota Senate is ready to vote on a bill to bump up the state's minimum wage, although not as fast as House lawmaking counterparts want. The Senate plan due for action Wednesday would bring the wage floor up to $7.75 per hour by August 2015 and then make annual adjustments based on inflation.

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A detention hearing is scheduled for a man arrested in what the FBI is calling a thwarted terror plot in western Minnesota. Twenty-four-year-old Buford Rogers of Montevideo is scheduled to appear in U.S. District Court in St. Paul on Wednesday afternoon

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A stretch of U.S. Highway 12 will remain closed after a collision between a Burlington Northern Santa Fe train and a semi carrying anhydrous ammonia injured four people, caused a leak of the chemical and evacuated an elementary school in western Minnesota.

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Eden Prairie police say a missing woman's DNA was in a blood sample from a jacket found in the SUV of her ex-boyfriend.

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Wildlife biologists say the moose population is holding relatively steady in Voyageurs National Park in north-central Minnesota. They say that stands in contrast to the rapidly declining moose population in the state's main moose range in northeastern Minnesota.

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Farmers in the nation's breadbasket who only recently were praying for an end to a withering drought are now pining for enough sunshine and heat to dry their muddy fields in time to plant their corn and other crops.

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The Minnesota House has scheduled a Thursday debate and floor vote on the bill to legalize same-sex marriage in the state. Jake Loesch is a spokesman for the organization Minnesotans United - the group that supports gay marriage. He says he thinks the votes are there for it to pass in the House.

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A Republican legislator who was weighing his vote on a gay marriage bill says he will oppose it during Thursday's Minnesota House vote. Farmington Rep. Pat Garofalo told The Associated Press on Tuesday that he reached the decision the night before.

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Authorities say a collision between a Burlington Northern Santa Fe train and a semi carrying anhydrous ammonia injured four people, caused a small leak of the volatile chemical and evacuated a nearby elementary school in western Minnesota.

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The Minnesota House has scheduled a Thursday debate and floor vote on the bill to legalize same-sex marriage in the state. House DFL leadership announced the plans Tuesday.

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