A woman left the message -- saying both she and nearly 40 dogs were starving at their home near Orr. Officials say the animals were malnourished and underweight.
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The state is looking at a $1 billion surplus in the years ahead.
The dog is on the road to recovery thanks to a nearby animal shelter.
Minnesota will be scoreboard watching until they play again on Friday.
The Senate passed a bill requiring hands-free cellphone use.
A man from New Richland was killed in the crash.
With injuries in the bullpen, Kimbrel to the Twins makes a ton of sense.
It happened south of Owatonna at the Straight River.
The 24 year old was arrested after an alleged attack on March 18.
The TV star is accusing the City of Minneapolis of hypocrisy over its housing policy.
Five others in Greater Minnesota will also be revamped.
The incident happened early Monday morning near Rice Marsh Lake.
A woman is facing 16 charges of animal cruelty after allegedly abusing and killing dogs at her business, Bell Kennels and Farm. The Pioneer Press reports three former employees report seeing Dayna Kristine Bell hurt animals.
The money comes from companies that are mining taconite on tax-forfeited land managed by the county. The royalty check will cover nearly one percent of St. Louis County's budget for next year. It may not be reliable income, though. A county official offers the reminder that taconite production can vary dramatically from year to year.
The lawyer for the woman accused of drowning puppies at her Sciota Township dog kennel says he will challenge the constitutionality of the law she is accused of violating more than a dozen times. Dayna K. Bell, 61, owns Bell Kennels and Farm, where three former employees say she drowned puppies in a bucket of water or by tying a cinder block to the animals' necks and throwing them in a swimming pool.
The county attorney's office has filed charges resulting from last month's drinking party at a gravel pit. But officials are not prosecuting the case as a bias crime. They say the victim's account of the incident—and his contention that he was beaten because he is gay—were not truthful.
A woman in Jordan, Minn., was surprised when her 4-year-old Pekingese took in an abandoned kitten, then start producing milk and nursing the gray stray animal to health, the Associated Press reports. Pat Weber says the kitten was days old when her grandson found it in the family's barn in early September in Jordan, about 40 miles southwest of Minneapolis.
The lawyer for a Dakota County dog breeder says the puppies his client allegedly drowned were not pets. He maintains "commercial" animals are subject to a different set of rules than pets. Dayna Bell faces 14 felony and two misdemeanor counts of animal cruelty.
Organizers say the poor snow has them concerned about the safety of the mushers, dogs and volunteers. Other race week events, like the gala and silent auction, will go on.
Spring Lake Park police arrested a woman for animal cruelty after they say she threw three-week-old puppies at her boyfriend. Police say she threw the dogs out of a vehicle onto a parking lot pavement. They were uninjured. Police arrested the boyfriend, too, for allegedly breaking the woman's nose.
