6+ hour, 22+ min ago  (672+ words) The judge stopped short of explicitly voiding the deal shielding Trump from tax scrutiny but said the government cannot claim that the agreement was the result of a legitimate legal process. “The nature of the suit itself and the conduct…...

1+ hour, 34+ min ago  (543+ words) PEQUOT LAKES, Minn. — A central Minnesota school board is putting an operating referendum before voters in November using a new state aid program that aims to increase district revenue and lower local property taxes. The Pequot Lakes School Board voted…...

6+ hour, 15+ min ago  (353+ words) Como Zoo this summer raised and shipped nearly 3,000 Wyoming toad tadpoles to Laramie, Wyo., to be released into protected habitat. It’s part of a nationwide project to help with the recovery of one of the most critically endangered amphibians in…...

5+ hour, 52+ min ago  (461+ words) A St. Paul father whose toddler ingested fentanyl and died on Christmas has been sentenced to four years in prison. Jeffrey Joseph Weidell, 40, received his sentence in Ramsey County District Court on Friday after previously pleading guilty to second-degree manslaughter…...

18+ hour, 3+ min ago  (780+ words) By SAMYA KULLAB and WILL WEISSERT Graham had been in Ukraine two days prior, standing in Kyiv’s St. Michael’s Square, flanked by the golden domes of the monastery and the burned-out remains of Russian military equipment. There, he offered Ukrainians…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago  (791+ words) The bipartisan Protect College Sports Act aims to regulate payments to players, limit them to one free transfer over their careers and create a rule to restrict coaches from changing jobs during a season. It advanced out of the Senate…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (161+ words) A truck hauling bison remains spilled its load Saturday afternoon in an Interstate 94 construction zone in Fargo, causing traffic delays and a cleanup effort. About 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, North Dakota Highway Patrol troopers responded to a large debris spill on eastbound…...

2+ day, 4+ hour ago  (246+ words) The Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal announced that Mark Reilly will be its next editor-in-chief, succeeding Dirk DeYoung, who is retiring next month. Reilly has been managing editor of the Business Journal since 2006, starting at the publication in 1999. His promotion…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago  (551+ words) In mid-2026, we Americans rightly are, to borrow a phrase from rockabilly sage Tennessee Ernie Ford, “as nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs.” And we have darned good reason to be nervous — with an unprecedented…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago  (229+ words) You can’t have the good without the bad. It’s a fact of life that not all movies can be winners. And that’s OK! But since we talked about the movies we’ve loved so far this year, we’ll also take time…...