Minnesotans looking for safe travel on New Year's Eve can ride Metro Transit for free starting at 6 p.m. The free rides are for any bus route and will run through the all scheduled stops.
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We're about to enter the busiest travel stretch of the year.
It's pure madness. Prepare your brain for pain.
Joan T.A. Gabel becomes the 17th U of M president.
He'll become the eighth Twin to have his number retired.
Casey Myers was killed when a semi ran a stop sign near Sartell on Monday.
Gibson and Thibodeau have apparently hashed it out.
There might be some festive snow in the forecast.
It's one of several festive treats available at Revolution Hall until New Year's Eve.
This is the second time a kettle filled with cash has been stolen in the metro this year.
Bad news for the NHL's top goal-scoring defenseman.
It happened just a few miles northwest of St. Cloud.
It's estimated to have caused around $10 million worth of damage.
Northstar rail and Northstar Link bus services are celebrating the opening of the new $13 million rail station in Ramsey with free rides. The Ramsey Station opens Wednesday, and all stations will offer free rides Wednesday and Thursday.
Passengers used Twin Cities transit 60 million times for the first nine months of this year. Metro Transit officials say that’s a four percent increase from the year before. Bus riders drove the increase.
There have been no alcohol-related deaths on New Years Eve the past two years in Minnesota. That's helped the overall trend stay on the decline. Ten years ago alcohol consumption contributed to 28 deaths in the state.
One man nudged another on a route 16 Metro Transit bus, which led to an argument that continued off the bus and ended with Desmond Deshawn Harper, 25, of St. Paul, dead in a stabbing, police said. Police have arrested Tim Davin Dortch, 38.
