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Jacob Wetterling was 11 when he went missing near his home in Minnesota, US, in October 1989. He was never found until Joy Baker started a blog and began investigating the case decades later

MINNEAPOLIS — The Minnesota Gophers men's basketball program's highest-ranked recruit in 20 years likely isn't coming to Minnesota after all.

MINNEAPOLIS — Dave Durenberger, who served 16 years in the U.S. Senate as a moderate Republican and championed affordable health care, the Boundary Waters and the Americans with Disabilities Act, died Tuesday. He was 88.

The faculty at a Minnesota college is calling for its president to resign for her handling of a Muslim student's objection to a depiction of the Prophet Muhammad being shown in an ancient art course

MINNEAPOLIS — Charges have been made public against a teenager accused of being one of two shooters who killed a 19-year-old man at the Mall of America four weeks ago before his mother allegedly drove him to Georgia.

Biden faces international climate-aid challenge in fiscal 2024

MINNEAPOLIS — Two months after Abduljabar Hussein and his wife were charged with stealing millions of dollars from a federal meals program, Hussein's Minneapolis day care center continues to collect public funds aimed at helping low-income families afford child care services.

MINNEAPOLIS — New details released Saturday by the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension allege that the man killed in a New Auburn police shooting swung a knife at officers, striking one of them, before he was hit with Tasers and shot.

With falling circulation and a news staff that's been slashed almost to nonexistence, the St. Cloud Times is a ghost of the publication that was once one of the best small daily newspapers in Minnesota.

Warnings have been made telling people not to release pet goldfish into the wild as they can grow to massive sizes, wreaking havoc with the ecosystems in lakes and rivers