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New Minnesota Laws Going Into Effect July 1st

MINNESOTA -- Along with a $48 billion budget, a new set of laws will take effect in Minnesota on July 1st. Twenty–one million dollars a year. That's how much drug manufacturers will be…

DNA Helps Convict Minnesota Man for 1983 Cold Case

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) _ A man whose conviction for the 1983 rape and killing of a Minneapolis teenager made possible by DNA evidence is being sentenced. A Hennepin County judge last month found 64-year-old Darrell Rea guilty of the death of…

Streets Alive! Is Back This Summer

  FARGO, N.D. -- Break out those bikes, skateboards and scooters. Streets Alive is back! More than three miles of streets were shut down in downtown Fargo so people could get active, whether it meant walking, running, biking, rollerblading or…

UPDATE: Victims In North Moorhead Rollover Identified

  MOORHEAD, Minn. -- We have an update to a fatal crash from Friday morning. The Clay County Sheriff's Office says 49-year-old Robert Churchman was driving a pick-up in the 33-hundred block of 28th Avenue when it crashed just before…

Fergus Falls Remembers Deadly 1919 Cyclone

FERGUS FALLS, Minn. --It's been 100 years since the deadly 1919 tornado that ripped through town. The Otter Tail County Historical Society is commemorating those lost in the cyclone. As bells ring across the city,…

LIVE: Pet Connection: Meet Grandpa

What could be better than having a grandpa or grandma? Why, bringing home an extra one, of course. Grandpa the boxer has been around for awhile. He's 10 this year, which puts him squarely…

Hemp Farmer Charged With Selling Drugs

PRESTON, Minn. (AP) _ A Minnesota hemp farmer is facing charges after authorities claimed his products had more than the legal limit of the compound that makes users high. Court documents say products from Luis Hummel's 5th Sun Gardens hemp…

Memorial Cruise For Downtown Shooting Victim

Friends of the Fargo food truck owner who was killed near downtown are honoring his memory with a cruise. A group gathered last Friday night in front of Kmart on University Drive for a memorial…

Shooting Victim Rescued by Uber Driver Near Stillwater

STILLWATER, Minn. (AP) _ Authorities say an Uber driver rescued a woman who had been shot and left to die along a road in Washington County. A 23-year-old St. Paul man, suspected of being in the U.S. illegally, is charged…

Skating Coach Pleads Guilty to Sexually Abusing Student

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) _ A figure skating coach has pleaded guilty in Hennepin County to sexually abusing a student. Forty-eight-year-old Thomas Incantalupo, of St. Louis Park, entered the plea to two counts of criminal sexual conduct Tuesday for abusing the girl…