Hayward Volunteers on hand to see family given new home In a cold drizzle, television star Ty Pennington started the chant and the crowd of hundreds picked it up: "Move that bus, move that bus." The DeVries family, whose farmhouse had been in disrepair,

ST. FRANCIS, Minn. -- Anoka County authorities say a man's body was discovered in the Rum River in St. Francis. The 45-year-old man's body was found underneath the Bridge Street Bridge around 2:30 p.m. Thursday. Police said the body

SHELL LAKE, Wis. -- A survivor of the Minneapolis bridge collapse that killed 13 people has been sentenced to 71/2 years in prison on charges of injuring his fiancee's daughter. Michael Stoner, 27, of Spooner, Wis., had pleaded no co

ST. PAUL -- A new poll confirms the depth of anxiety in Minnesota about the economy. The poll by Minnesota Public Radio News and the University of Minnesota's Humphrey Institute shows nearly one-fourth of respondents are scared by wh

ROLLAG, Minn. -- Clay County authorities are on the scene of a crash that killed a turkey truck driver near the northwestern Minnesota town of Rollag. Sheriff Bill Bergquist says the truck ran off the road and crashed at the bottom o

2007 -- One year ago Mayo Clinic has won a $3.5 million, four-year award from the National Human Genome Research Institute to research genetic markers for heart disease. Annette Atkins, author of the new book "Creating Minnesota: A History from the Inside

RED WING -- It is a bittersweet time of year for Red Wing Marina owner Cindy Bisek.

Have we gone a little too far with all this "green" stuff? I'm just asking. I'd been thinking about this for a while, but two things happened this week that prompted me to finally pop this question in public.

Last month, residents of southeastern Minnesota got their first chance to view the new movie "My Brother and I / The Founding of Mayo Clinic."

  Mayo Clinic has hired an engineering firm to investigate what long has been considered a dead issue: the possibility of a bypass route around Rochester for coal-bearing trains heading to markets east.