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On Wednesday afternoon the first Minneapolis mayoral candidate called it quits. Minneapolis councilman Gary Schiff has decided to drop out.

Men's Wearhouse doesn't like the way its founder looks anymore ...

The Justice Department violated its own rules when it secretly seized records for thousands of phone calls to and from journalists for The Associated Press as part of a leak investigation, the head of the company said Wednesday ...

A vaccine against a cervical cancer virus has cut infections in teen girls by half, according to a study released Wednesday ...

Now, nothing in the world is more important for the Bruins than winning Game 4. Here's a look at how they can do it.

As the West battles one catastrophic wildfire after another, the federal government is spending less and less on its main program for preventing blazes in the first place ...

Investigators with the Minnesota State Patrol now say that it was a pickup truck that hit and critically injured a Wyoming, Minn. man on Interstate 35 Monday night. Trevor Langlois, 24, was hit by the truck as after he had pulled over.

Police have issued a crime alert after two women were inappropriately touched by a stranger while they were using park trails in Maple Grove.

Police in Moorhead say a young brother and sister left a locked home and played in the highway while their parents slept. According to the police department, the two children were seen playing on Highway 75 between 10 and 11 a.m. Wednesday.

The excavation of a field in suburban Detroit has failed to turn up the remains of former Teamsters union leader Jimmy Hoffa, the FBI announced Wednesday, adding another unsuccessful chapter to a nearly 40-year-old mystery ...

The Federal Reserve signaled Wednesday that it's moving closer to slowing its bond-buying program, which is intended to keep long-term interest rates at record lows ...

Federal prosecutors have secured new indictments against a former BP engineer and a former BP executive charged separately with obstructing investigations of the company's 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico ...

Gov. Mark Dayton says the state will open a European trade office in Germany to promote exports and foreign investment back in Minnesota ...

Best-selling author Vince Flynn, who wrote the Mitch Rapp counterterrorism thriller series and sold more than 15 million books in the U.S. alone, died Wednesday in Minnesota ...

A bipartisan compromise on student loans started to take shape in the Senate on Wednesday, preserving fixed-rate loans for all students and linking interest rates with the financial markets ...

Authorities in Maple Grove are looking for a suspect after at least two women were groped on park trails within the last nine days. Police said the incidents involved inappropriate touching and happened on walking trails in broad daylight.

Gov. Mark Dayton says the state will open a European trade office in Germany to promote exports and foreign investment back in Minnesota. Dayton's administration announced the new outpost while the governor was traveling in Germany as part of a 10-day trade mission.

Before his performing for Local Music Tap, I had not seen Nathan Miller live. Now, I wish to do so.

Minneapolis Mayor RT Rybak is among 17 other big city mayors, including those of New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, reviving a push prohibiting the use of food stamps to buy pop and other sugary drinks.

Over a third of American households contain at least one firearm. How many of those are handled safely?

Authorities say the pilot of a helicopter that went down in a suburban neighborhood near St. Paul was killed in the crash...

A member of the Pennsylvania Army National Guard has sued Target Corp., saying he was wrongly fired from one of the chain's Pittsburgh-area stores for violating its "no-call, no-show" policy...

Celebrate the Fourth of July with WCCO at Mystic Lake Casino Hotel. A free outdoor event with food, fun and live music from Maiden Dixie, Boogie Wonderland and Arch Allies. The night ends with a fireworks display!

Getting started is sometimes the most difficult part of a cycle. Take this year’s growing season for example. It was so tough to get started, not for lack of trying, but for lack of warmth. Now that the temperatures have risen and the ground has enough (and sometimes too much) moisture, the familiar produce of our growing season has started to pop up in both fields and markets.

A western Wisconsin man is dead after colliding with a deer while riding his motorcycle Tuesday night.

Police say a 2-month-old baby missing from an apartment in Brooklyn Park has been found in St. Paul and a woman and man have been arrested.

Police are searching for a driver that hit a man along Interstate 35 in Hinckley Monday night while the man was helping fix a truck.

Amazon.com says it will drop its Minnesota-based affiliate websites before the state's online sales tax becomes law July 1.

A man who was attacked by a black bear in northwestern Wisconsin is recovering at a hospital in the Twin Cities. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources says the man was attacked while out in his yard near Shell Lake Monday about 9:30 p.m.

Prosecutors have charged a Minnesota man with manslaughter after his 5-month-old daughter died after being left for hours in a hot minivan last week.

A popular summer program has returned to Saint Paul with a new, even healthier message.

On Tuesday, 52 soldiers from the C Company, 2nd General Support Aviation Battalion returned home from Afghanistan. Bobbi Shrek waited 11 months for her daughter, Tara Lamo, to come home.

A body recovered from the Chippewa River in Eau Claire has been identified as a local university student.

The dangers of sleep deprivation lit up the social media after reports of the possible effects of a lack of shuteye. There have been reports in newspapers and television about damage to parts of the body linked to the phenomenon.