In Minnesota's metropolitan counties 14 percent of residents receive Social Security benefits. In rural counties it's more than 23 percent.
The Timberwolves missed another opportunity to get over .500.
The Wild will play 40 games in the final 77 days of the regular season.
The puppy died two days after undergoing a procedure at a Mayo research facility.
The suspect faces three separate felony charges.
He was charged with illegally possessing a machine gun.
Chris Smith will be eligible immediately as a graduate transfer.
Members of the girls team returned to the bus to find the driver unresponsive.
Sometimes the company didn't send people their results at all, the lawsuit alleges.
The corporation's Optum business represented a significant chunk of that total.
The couple say their friend was "not acting right."
Reported cases lag what's happening in real time, so the newly reported cases over the next week or so will still be very high.
A growing number of rural Midwestern churches -- where generations have been baptized, married and buried -- are closing their doors as rural America loses residents to cities and suburbs. "There’s a kind of sadness to see the rural decline,” one observer says.
Beltrami County - like other rural areas around Minnesota - has decided the venerable old bookmobile is no longer the most cost-effective way to provide library services to residents far from any brick-and-mortar library. OK, then what is? There's not exactly any consensus on that yet.
People in their 30s and 40s have continued to move to parts of rural Minnesota, new research shows -- perhaps drawn by a higher quality of life, a slower pace, more security, cheaper housing and a better place to raise children. The results add nuance to larger trends of population decline, young people leaving and elderly populations increasing in rural areas.
The Minnesota Justice system is reeling from a Cook County Court shooting that left three injured. KARE-11 reports concerns over safety are being raised, and although most courts have electronic security more than 60 percent are without metal detectors.
KAAL-TV reports there are six job-seekers for every full-time job opening in the southeastern part of the state. That translates to about 17,000 people looking for work, when there are only 2,800 job openings.
A new study finds that the gap is narrowing between the amount of households in rural Minnesota and Twin Cities-area that have some form of Internet access. A new study released by the Center for Rural Policy and Development said 70.6 percent of households have some form of broadband Internet access, as opposed to with the 79.2 percent of households in the seven-county Twin Cities metro area.
Two activists from Duluth and an 82-year-old nun were arrested Wednesday and charged with federal trespassing after they allegedly breached a high-security area in a Tennessee complex that stores and processes uranium. A government official said the protesters, who dubbed themselves Transform Now Plowshares, "put themselves at a high risk of losing their life" in the incident.
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