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The City Council gave final approval Friday to funding a new Vikings stadium in downtown Minneapolis, ending an arduous legislative process that has taken decades to resolve.
University of Minnesota regents would have greater oversight of executive compensation and severance under new rules a special committee voiced support for Friday.
In the past year, the Los Angeles electro-pop duo has catapulted from dance-club up-and-comers to colorful stars who boast two No. 1 smashes and an arena headline tour that comes to Target Center tonight.
Details are to be worked out for a 2013 roll out.
President Obama will speak at Honeywell's Golden Valley campus next Friday, a White House official says
Police: 175-pound mastiff is up to 3 violent clashes with little kids in St. PaulFri, 25, May 2012 14:36
A 175-pound dog clamped its jaws on the head of a toddler at her St. Paul home in what records show is the animal's third violent confrontation with a small child in the past two years, authorities said Friday.
The bill from Dayle Nolan, a private attorney the Senate hired to defend it against ex-employee Michael Brodkorb, and her firm only goes through March of this year.
This weekend's Madison Marathon is being called off because of heat concerns.
The privately bankrolled Dragon capsule made a historic arrival at the International Space Station on Friday, triumphantly captured by astronauts wielding a giant robot arm.
The maker of Tide Pods will create a new double-latch lid to deter children from accessing and eating the brightly colored detergent packets, a company spokesman said Friday.
A mother and daughter who shared a birthday died of natural causes within hours of each other this week at a northern Minnesota hospital.
Hennepin County Board Chairman Mike Opat has been named to Sun Country Airlines' board of directors.
The board of directors of Spain's troubled bank, Bankia, has asked the Spanish government for (EURO)19 billion ($23.8 billion) in financial support.
Hurricane Bud continued to weaken early Friday as it headed toward a string of laid-back beach resorts and small mountain villages on Mexico's Pacific coast south of Puerto Vallarta. Two people, one of them from France, were reported missing in a separate storm in Cuba.
The president's approval ensures long-promised paid leave benefits for members of Minnesota’s "Red Bull" National Guard unit and more than 49,000 Guard troops across the country.
Despite vigorously denying he gave one of his horses an illegal performance-enhancing mixture, trainer Doug O'Neill was suspended 45 days — a ban that won't take effect until after his superstar colt, I'll Have Another, tries to win the Triple Crown.
What defines sugar? It's getting to be a stickier question.
The battle between President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney will be the most expensive presidential contest ever — by a long shot.
Inspectors have located radioactive traces at an Iranian underground bunker, the U.N. atomic agency said Friday — a finding that could mean Iran has moved closer to reaching the uranium threshold needed to arm nuclear missiles.
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A 24-year-old Canadian man is in federal custody for rushing toward the front of an American Airlines flight from Jamaica after the plane landed in Miami.
The judge in the John Edwards trial says she is dealing with a juror issue and she is warning the panel not to deliberate outside the jury room or in small groups.
The candidate of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood won a spot in a runoff election, likely against a veteran of ousted leader Hosni Mubarak's regime in what would be a deeply divisive battle to become the new president of Egypt, according to partial results Friday from the first round of voting.
A Norwegian who survived Anders Behring Breivik's shooting rampage on Utoya island capped two weeks of chilling witness statements from survivors on Friday, describing how the self-confessed killer first mistook him for a fellow right-wing extremist and spared him, then shot him when he found him again.
Scores of Maine churches will pass the collection plate a second time at Sunday services on Father's Day to kick off a fundraising campaign for the lead opposition group to November's ballot question asking voters to legalize same-sex marriages.
An inappropriate picture of a Lakeville middle school student that circulated among classmates is under police investigation and has students lighting up social media with talk of multiple suspensions.
Nine plastic bins in the Camden boat launch parking lot were filled with the bronze vases taken recently from area cemeteries.
A harrowing ordeal ends with an arrest as a robbery victim finds her stolen stuff on Craigslist and clues in the cops.
When care providers take too many children, dangers multiply. Several sites of child-care deaths had been cited for capacity violations.
