Cass County officials say the prisoners began showing flu-like symptoms after their Sunday evening meal of turkey chili casserole, cornbread and cookies.
Conditions are right for a very rare brain-eating amoeba in Minnesota lakes, so officials want people to assume it's where they're swimming.
Gov. Tim Walz has called a special session that starts Monday.
He says Gov. Tim Walz is the one who is spreading misinformation.
The St. Paul City Council has approved an ordinance stipulating several protections for tenants
Zimmer is entering the final year of his contract.
The move complies with the NFL/NFLPA protocols announced earlier this week.
At least 22 reports of damage to vehicles have been made in a two-day span.
The City Council says it is deciding between "encouraging" residents to wear masks or adopting a city ordinance
Family and others deemed as essential caregivers can now visit residents of long-term care facilities indoors.
A national leader in sustainability, the campus says it has achieved full carbon neutrality
It's the strongest tornado in Minnesota since 2010.
A report suggests the flight attendants were feeling light-headed.
Minnesota prisons are joining other states nationwide that are allowing inmates to receive emails. MPR reports that the emails, which began this week, are coordinated by Iowa-based Advanced Technologies Group, which sends the emails to prison mailrooms. The messages are then printed out by staff members and delivered along with regular mail.
The lawsuit claims jail staff prescribed a lethal dose of methadone for Cody Laganiere in 2010. The coroner's report found that the methadone was one of the factors that contributed to an accidental death. In the last year Olmsted County has settled three wrongful death lawsuits involving jail inmates.
A new report suggests a Christian-based program is helping inmates leave prison and find housing and work. And a prison official tells MPR those benefits come at no cost to taxpayers. But some critics charge the program is taking advantage of vulnerable adults; others say it creates a separate class of inmates who get special benefits.
Two former Timberwolves players turned real estate developers face jail time at a court hearing today. Christian Laettner and Brian Davis face contempt for not paying a nearly 700-thousand dollar judgement to investors of a Baltimore real estate project.
Federal officials are still trying to determine the source.
The medical director for the state Department of Corrections told the Star Tribune prison medical staff failed to quarantine a prisoner with a history of leprosy who had visible lesions. The offender was held in the general population in prisons at St. Cloud and Rush city for nearly two months this spring, exposing prison staff and hundreds of inmates to the communicable disease.
Authorities believe they have uncovered a scam in which a man bought food stamp cards at half their value from dozens of homeless-shelter residents in the St. Paul area and then redeemed them at two grocery stores, the Star Tribune reports.
The American Farm Bureau Federation says the cost to cook a meal with turkey and all the trimmings is up 13 percent -- upping the price per plate to about $5.
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