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A drowning man in St. Cloud went from being saved to under arrest. Police were called early Thursday to the University Bridge, when a man was struggling to stay afloat in the Mississippi River.

Hormel Foods says its fiscal third-quarter profit fell 9 percent as higher meat, fuel and other input costs hurt the business.

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has rebuilt his lead over Republican John McCain in Minnesota and now has a margin of 10 percentage points, according to a new poll released Thursday.

A New Brighton City Council member arrested in a prostitution sting wants the solicitation charges against him dropped.

The public gets a chance to weigh in on Xcel Energy's plan to increase the output of its Monticello nuclear power plant. The state Public Utilities Commission will hold a hearing at 7 p.m. at the Monticello Community Center.

Martin Nance has always LOOKED like a receiver.

The Minnesota Twins activated second baseman Alexi Casilla from the disabled list after Wednesday's 3-1 victory over the Oakland Athletics, getting their No. 2 hitter back in time for a 14-game road trip.

Kristy Mussman, a college student from Claremont in southern Minnesota, was crowned the 55th Princess Kay of the Milky Way on Wednesday night, on the eve of the Minnesota State Fair.

A federal judge on Wednesday ordered a research company to supply an experimental drug to a 16-year-old Minnesota boy who is terminally ill with a rare form of muscular dystrophy.

For many Minnesotans, the beginning of the Minnesota State Fair signals the end of the summer but for Pat Kessler, it's the unofficial beginning of the political campaign season. And hundreds of viewers have given Kessler your opinions.

Minnesota State Fair organizers asked the vendors, who bring fairgoers everything from pronto pups to caramel apples, to not raise prices. But an informal survey of food vendors at the Fair found that many will be raising their prices a small amount.

A 59-year-old man shot and killed his wife and a St. Michael man before turning the gun on himself in a case involving an online swinger's club, authorities said Wednesday.

For years, teenagers have chosen video games over books, and just about anything else. Now, they can choose them at two branches of the Dakota County Library.

People riding the light rail home from Tuesday's Twins game had quite the experience when a man bleeding from a stab wound got onto the train.

Last weekend volunteers in Minneapolis and St. Paul were busy sprucing up the city for the Republican National Convention visitors. But drive down Interstate 94 between St. Paul and Minneapolis and you see trash lined roadways.

Police in Minneapolis are looking for the man who punched a woman in the face and then raped her.

Dry weather has led the Superior National Forest to ban campfires in parts of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area affected by the 1999 blowdown.

On Tuesday, Gov. Tim Pawlenty appeared at the Grand Opening of the Minnesota Autism Center's new facility in Minnetonka. The center focuses on applied behavioral analysis, or ABA therapy, in which children with autism work intensively with therapists on speech, language and daily living skills.

A semi-truck driver suffered minor injuries when he crashed through two bus barns and slammed into three empty school buses in southwestern Minnesota.