The Latest Breaking News from Minneapolis

A federal judge will this week sentence former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for federal civil rights violations in the killing of George Floyd

MINNEAPOLIS — After her husband died by suicide Friday at their Maplewood, Minnesota, home, Molly Cheng drove her three young children to Vadnais-Sucker Lake Regional Park.

MINNEAPOLIS — The commissioners for the Big Ten, Pac-12 and ACC appeared together at a virtual news conference last August to express unity and a spirit of collaboration in announcing a new "Alliance" partnership in the wake of jarring news that Texas and Oklahoma were bolting to the SEC.

MINNEAPOLIS — Briana Scurry walked into the auditorium at Wayzata High School in Plymouth, Minn., on Wednesday night, and a tall man hugged her, saying, "Welcome home."

MINNEAPOLIS — For the second consecutive game, the Twins ended with a walk-off victory.

MINNEAPOLIS — A series of events that started with the report of a possible suicide in an east-metro mobile home park had by Saturday become what authorities who recovered four bodies from a Ramsey County lake were calling a triple homicide.

MINNEAPOLIS — Disagreements with my poignant thoughts offered either for the Star Tribune or the wacky outlet that is Twitter often lead to this dismissive retort:

MINNEAPOLIS — The bodies of a mother and her three children were recovered from a Ramsey County lake on Saturday, in what authorities are calling a likely triple homicide.

MINNEAPOLIS — With the imminent arrival of USC and UCLA, the Big Ten's overdue name change has become obvious.