Officials have identified the woman shot to death by Golden Valley Police on I-394 as Katherine Marie Gordon, 58, of California. Police said Gordon had possession of a handgun when she was pulled over. The Star Tribune reports she had a history of mental illness.

Authorities say a woman walked onto the freeway just north of downtown Minneapolis this morning, laid down in traffic and was hit by multiple vehicles. Traffic was jammed and down to two lanes as police responded to the scene.

Dawn Renee Peel, 50, is also accused of waking her boyfriend to tell him, "This is the last time you're going to see my eyes" before she attacked him with a knife in a St. Paul apartment. Police suspect she had been drinking, and the 39-year-old man told police he had told earlier that she needed to check herself into a hospital.

A crash on westbound Interstate 394 involving a mini-bus during Wednesday's morning rush hour killed at least one person and injured another.

In a symbolic ceremony before friends and family, the bride gave her vows: "I, Nadine, promise to enjoy inhabiting my own life and to relish a lifelong love affair with my beautiful self." Nadine Schweigert says she has struggled for years with self-acceptance. Today she's on her honeymoon in New Orleans.

Two Duluth men, 17 and 22, have been charged in the killing of a Floodwood woman for her car and cell phone, which police believe were sold or traded for street drugs, the Duluth News Tribune reports. The body of Cristyna Leah Watson, 25, was found outside Cloquet, her death the result of "homicidal violence," a medical examiner's report says. Two others have been charged with attempting to cover up the slaying.

The police report says when an officer told the woman she could not leave her child behind in a car, she apparently replied "even in Minnesota?" The Woodbury Bulletin says authorities reported it to child protective services.

KARE 11 reports a motorist was shot to death by a Golden Valley police officer Thursday after a traffic stop on I-394. The incident shutdown the interstate in both directions for nearly six hours.