Minnesota News

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…

Leaked Email Raises New Questions About PolyMet Water Permit

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) _ A leaked email has raised new questions about how state and federal regulators handled a major permit for the planned PolyMet copper-nickel mine in northeastern Minnesota. The e-mail asks Environmental Protection Agency officials not to file written…

Gov. Walz To Have Surgery, Transfer Power To Lt. Governor

ST. PAUL, MN -- Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has announced that he will have surgery on his left knee on Thursday and transfer power to the Lieutenant Governor. Walz is being treated for a medial meniscus tear, an injury common for…

LIVE: Erasing School Lunch Debt

We all know kids who are stressed because they're hungry can't concentrate enough to learn well in school. But for some families, the stress of paying for school lunches lasts long after school's out…

Children's Hospitals of Minnesota Nurses Strike Averted

ST. PAUL, Minn. (Dave Kolpack, AP) - Nurses have reached a tentative agreement on a new three-year contract with Children's Hospitals of Minnesota, after union nurses had authorized their negotiating team to call for a strike. The Minnesota Nurses Association…

22 Nursing Homes In Region Cited for Health and Safety Violations

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Eleven Minnesota nursing homes are on a list of facilities cited by federal officials for patterns of health and safety violations, including Moorhead Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center. The list, which includes 6 facilities in North Dakota…

Presentation on Notable Local Journalist Jane Swisshelm

ABERCROMBIE, N.D.-- Fort Abercrombie is hosting historical presentations about the area. This week's topic is Jane Swisshelm; a prominent journalist in the 1860's who wrote for a newspaper in Saint Cloud Minnesota. At the…

Red Lake Police Try To Identify Young School Vandals

RED LAKE, MN -- Police are searching for a group of kids that broke into schools and bus garages in Red Lake, Minnesota causing thousands of dollars in damage. They posted these pictures to Facebook and said the kids, who…

First Annual Juneteenth Celebration in Moorhead

MOORHEAD, Minn.-- Over a hundred and fifty years have passed since the Emancipation Proclamation, and celebrations across the country called Juneteenth are commemorating just that. June 19th, 1865, better known as Juneteenth, is the…