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For the second year in a row, a person has died during the 10,000 Lakes music festival near Detroit Lakes.

Little Postville has an usual weekend ahead.

For the first time in its history, the Como Zoo has hatched a baby flamingo.

Two Minnesota women have pleaded guilty to conspiracy to smuggle restricted animal parts into the United States from Laos.

Authorities say a truck's hydraulic lift hit the underside of a bridge on Interstate 94 and knocked out huge chunks of the bridge, injuring four people and backing up traffic for miles.

It's one of the most secure places in Minnesota: A lab chamber built to grow cultures of highly contagious bird flu. Only six people have both the FBI clearance and the keycards to enter.

In the minutes after a major freeway bridge collapsed last summer, police and emergency workers descended upon the chaos in and around the Mississippi River and soon transformed it into an orderly scene.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg still isn't saying who he will endorse in the presidential race.

An Internet virus is causing problems for Sun Country Airlines Friday morning. 

Authorities are investigating the death of a man in a hay baler in North Branch.

A standoff situation that closed part of Cedar Avenue in Minneapolis Friday morning ended safely nearly four hours after it started.

House lawmakers scolded federal regulators Thursday for failing to implement recommendations made in 2001 that were designed to keep medically unfit commercial truck and bus drivers off the nation's highways.

More than 500 people packed the Schneider Theater at the Bloomington Center for the Arts on Thursday night for a hearing on a proposed SuperTarget at the corner of Normandale and Old Shakopee Roads.

Construction workers have poured the final batch of concrete to fill the remaining gap in the new Interstate 35W bridge.

No charges are expected in a shooting that critically wounded a 15-year-old boy in southern Minnesota.

Like most young boys, Will Johnson is all about dinosaurs, not necessarily dairy. In fact, he's allergic to milk and eats gluten- and dairy-free. But the lack of dairy in his diet might actually be helping him grow in new ways.

This story is a wake-up call and a warning for every parent whose child uses a computer and has a Web page. Lino Lakes Police just arrested Anthony Garrity for allegedly soliciting sex on the Internet from a teenage girl, a girl he met on MySpace.

Ford Motor Company threw the St. Paul assembly plant a lifeline because it builds smaller trucks. Size matters because these days it costs more to fill up big SUVs and pickups.

Republican Tim Pawlenty denies he is letting his work on behalf of presidential candidate John McCain get into the way of his job as Minnesota governor.