The international port at Duluth, the border with Canada, and a thriving mail-order bride business are all factors that bring young victims of the sex trade to Minnesota.

The latest robbery happened late Wednesday afternoon in Bloomington. The FBI believes it's the same suspect involved in a string of bank heists across the metro in the past several weeks.

As Minnesotans dealt with the harrowing details coming out of Colorado, local media bolted into action to give the find the Minnesota angle. Did they succeed?

A 17-year-old boy from Sauk Rapids was charged Tuesday in connection to the death of Mankato state student Colton Gleason. The St. Cloud Times reports Jesse Jean Smithers is charged with second-degree murder, first-degree manslaughter and first-degree assault.

Authorities have issued a warrant for a Level III sex offender on the loose after he removed his GPS ankle bracelet in Faribault. Twenty-five-year-old George McIntosh Jr. of Waterville served time in prison for two third-degree criminal sexual conduct convictions in Le Sueur County in 2008.

KSTP-TV is bringing two Minnesotans back to the state: Eric Kahnert, who grew up in Apple Valley, joins the station as weeknight news anchor on Labor Day, the Pioneer Press reports. Todd Wilson, a Minneapolis native, starts work at the Hubbard-owned station as a general assignment reporter Thursday.

A federal affidavit says that an Austin man and a Mendota Heights man with ties to white supremacist groups amassed several weapons as part of a plan to attack the government, minorities and others, the Associated Press is reporting.