Amy Klobuchar

Minnesota Sens. Amy Klobuchar and Al Franken have voted for emergency legislation allowing the government to borrow more money and avoid a U.S. government default.

St. Cloud has five new police officers patrolling the streets. The officers were sworn-in this (Monday) afternoon during a ceremony at the Police Headquarters.

U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar will be in town today (Monday). She'll be speaking at a swearing-in ceremony for five new police officers.

Former state Rep. Dan Severson has become the first Republican to declare a challenge to Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar in 2012. Severson, a 57-year-old retired Navy pilot, served four terms in the state House before running unsuccessfully last fall for secretary of state.

A former state lawmaker is expected to become the first Republican to wage a 2012 challenge to Minnesota's popular Democratic U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar. A political consultant with direct knowledge of the plans says Dan Severson will announce his candidacy Monday at the state Capitol.

Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar is making her way through northwestern Minnesota, dishing out advice to graduates and getting input from area residents who have battled annual floods.

Two Minnesota Republicans who ran on the party's statewide ticket last fall are weighing whether to jump into a 2012 Senate campaign that so far lacks any declared GOP candidates.

A decades-old debate over a new St. Croix River bridge is drawing U.S. Sen. Al Franken to Stillwater. The Democrat from Minnesota visits the city on Saturday to meet with local officials and tour the 80-year-old lift bridge. Franken hasn't taken a position on a long-delayed proposal.

U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar says she'll introduce legislation Monday requiring the military to permanently preserve records on sexual assault cases. The Minnesota Democrat says people in the military reported more than 3,000 sexual assaults in 2009.

U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar is proposing legislation that would ban a synthetic drug that killed one Minnesotan last week and sent 10 others to the hospital. Klobuchar says Monday that the drug called 2C-E should be illegal. Klobuchar already co-sponsored legislation that would permanently ban chemicals found in synthetic marijuana and other drugs. She says she'll work to include a ban on 2C-E in the existing bill.