State/Regional News

The state of Minnesota will give Minneapolis about $33 million over several years to help pay off debt on the downtown library.

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The Minnesota State Patrol says a 66-year-old Howard Lake man is dead after a head on collision. The incident happened just before 12:30 p.m. this (Tuesday) afternoon on Highway 12 at 12th Avenue.

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A day care provider in Dakota County is charged with manslaughter in the death of a 3-month-old boy who died in her care last July.

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The parents of slain University of North Dakota student Dru Sjodin say the man convicted of killing their daughter isn't the only person who received a death sentence.

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A second teenager has pleaded guilty in the shooting death of a 5-year-old boy who was killed by a stray bullet in north Minneapolis. Sixteen-year-old Julian Anderson pleaded guilty as an adult Tuesday to second-degree intentional murder and was sentenced to 28 years in prison.

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Medical device maker Medtronic confirms it is eliminating 2,000 jobs worldwide, including 500 in Minnesota. About half of the jobs being eliminated are in the U.S.

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There was a deadly crash in Pope county this (Tuesday) morning. The Minnesota State Patrol says the incident happened just before 10:30 a.m. at the intersection of Highway 28 and 150th Street, south of Villard.

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Gov. Mark Dayton and Democratic legislative leaders call the just-finished session a success and say they accomplished what they set out to do.

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Thousands of Minnesota soldiers are returning from war with chronic pain from injuries that leave many of them impaired and even disabled. An analysis of Department of Veterans Affairs data shows a steep increase in such injuries over the last decade.

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Favorable weather has helped Minnesota farmers catch up from a late start to get 70 percent of their corn crop planted. The U.S. Department of Agriculture's weekly crops and weather report for Minnesota says warm, dry weather gave farmers their best week for fieldwork yet this season.

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