Minnesota

‘How could I sit at my desk as Ukrainian children die?’: small-town newspaperman heads to war

The editor-reporter-photographer says he’ll do whatever he can to help and hopes others will follow his lead

Matthew Cantor

05, Jun, 2022 @10:15 AM

Proprietor offers Minnesota paper free to new owner so he can fight in Ukraine

Lee Zion seeks new owner with ‘knowledge, experience and drive’ to take on Lafayette Nicollet Ledger, which reaches 100% of local residents

Edward Helmore

01, Jun, 2022 @5:43 PM

Three-legged dog with cancer saves baby otter in Minnesota river drama

Otter would likely not have survived without intervention of goldendoodle Gus, officials say

Richard Luscombe

30, Apr, 2022 @4:07 PM

Rare footage discovered of Prince, 11, at 1970 Minneapolis teachers’ strike

CBS News affiliate WCCO uncovers archive material of school-age Prince being interviewed as teachers picket in the background

Gloria Oladipo

05, Apr, 2022 @4:02 PM

Republican Royce White isn’t the average jock turned politician

While the 30-year-old’s self-determined streak might have cost him a lucrative NBA career, he has a decent shot at being elected to Congress

Andrew Lawrence

23, Mar, 2022 @9:00 AM

Daunte Wright: backlash over plan to move police killing victim’s memorial

‘If they want to not have memorials on their street corners they need to stop murdering our loved ones on street corners’ says Wright’s mother

Maya Yang

14, Mar, 2022 @4:32 PM

Black man killed by Minneapolis police was not named in no-knock warrant

Amir Locke, 22, was asleep on a couch before being shot dead by officer Mark Hanneman

Gloria Oladipo

04, Feb, 2022 @8:02 PM

Trial begins of three ex-police officers present at George Floyd murder

Opening arguments commence in the federal trial of Tou Thao, J Alexander Kueng and Thomas Lane

Amudalat Ajasa in St Paul and agencies

24, Jan, 2022 @8:35 PM

Kim Potter found guilty over killing of Daunte Wright

Ex-officer maintained that she made a mistake when she grabbed her gun instead of her Taser and shot dead Wright

Joanna Walters

23, Dec, 2021 @7:35 PM

Hockeyland: the Minnesota towns where high school players are stars

A new documentary looks at how entrenched the sport still is in a state where practically everything else has changed

Dave Caldwell

23, Nov, 2021 @10:00 AM

Award-winning American poet Robert Bly dies aged 94

Bly was an opponent of the war in Vietnam and author of Iron John, the manifesto of the ‘expressive men’s movement’

Martin Pengelly in New York

22, Nov, 2021 @7:29 PM

US Covid infections rising again as upper midwest sees biggest jump

Increase comes ahead of Thanksgiving as families gather in homes, and as winter approaches, forcing people indoors