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What's really in your food? That's the question thousands around the country – and in St. Paul - asked as they rallied against the agriculture company Monsanto on Saturday. Hundreds gathered at the State Capitol for the “March Against Monsanto” Saturday afternoon. Similar scenes took place at more than 200 cities across the country.

As Kuoth Wiel wore her Augsburg College robe, she looked antsy like many grads. Her graduation day emotions may seem typical, but what's going on in her life right now is not – nor is her past. “Because of the war, we went to Ethiopia,” Wiel said. She was born in the Sudan, and her parents made it out with her from a civil war.

Authorities are continuing to search for a 2-year-old girl who went missing from Wapiti Park Campground in Elk River Friday night...

It’s pretty safe to say Pat Kelly is enjoying his trip home. But that's nothing compared to the perspective of his parents. Jim and Beth Kelly are beaming with pride. The Huskers sophomore second baseman hails from Red Wing, so the chance to play at Target Field is something he and his parents have been looking forward to for quite some time.

Over 260 volunteers helped authorities search for a missing girl in Elk River Saturday. Daisy Jo Holland went missing Friday around 8 p.m. from the extreme northern edge of the Wapiti Park campgrounds. She was at the park with her mother, two other adults and five other children. She was last seen playing close to a creek which feeds into Elk River with friends as the adults set up camp.

A California man was killed by a driver who may have fallen asleep at the wheel Saturday evening in Rogers. According to Rogers Police chief Jeff Beahen, a 49-year-old man was walking westbound on Rogers Drive which parallels I-94 when a 20-year-old man driving eastbound crossed the center line – striking and killing the pedestrian around 5:15 p.m.

It’s easy to tell when Preston Tassi is upset. But when he's happy, it's a little tougher. His mom, Sarah Tassi, says she and her husband, Jason have never seen Preston smile. He was born with Moebius Syndrome, a rare neurological disorder. “When he was born,” Sarah said, “right away noticed the hand.”

Joe Mauer homered and had three hits, helping the Minnesota Twins snap a 10-game losing streak with a 3-2 victory over the Detroit Tigers on Saturday. Mauer had already earned the ire of Detroit fans when he broke up Anibal Sanchez's no-hit bid in the ninth inning Friday night. He was booed when came to bat in the first inning Saturday — then booed some more after his solo homer to right field.

Joe Mauer homered and had three hits, helping the Minnesota Twins snap a 10-game losing streak with a 3-2 victory over the Detroit Tigers on Saturday...

The search for a missing Eden Prairie woman is entering its fourth week...

Missing Children's Day in Minnesota was marked by hope and noise...

Minnesota Twins manager Ron Gardenhire has been ejected from Saturday's game at Detroit while arguing a call at second base. The Twins had men on first and second with nobody out in the third inning when Justin Morneau hit a grounder to first baseman Prince Fielder.

A former head football coach at Minnesota State University, Mankato, who was cleared of child pornography charges but then fired from his job, is speaking out about the pain of being accused and arrested, and his hopes for a second chance...

Marches and rallies against seed giant Monsanto were held across the U.S. and in dozens of other countries Saturday...

A former head football coach at Minnesota State University, Mankato, is speaking out after he was cleared of child pornography charges, but fired from his job. In an interview airing on ESPN's "Outside the Lines," Sunday morning, former coach Todd Hoffner says a simple mistake turned his life upside down, and he wants to return to football coaching.

The National Transportation Safety Board has launched an investigation into the cause of a cargo train collision that partially collapsed a highway overpass Saturday in southeast Missouri, injuring seven people...

British police investigating the savage killing of an off-duty soldier in London have arrested three more suspects...

She can pitch and she can hit, and she does it so well that as just a sophomore she is one of the best in the state.

Seven tornadoes have swept through their town since they were born, but as new graduates donned caps and gowns to say goodbye to their high schools Saturday, they vowed they wouldn't say goodbye to Moore...

It's going to take time to find both short- and long-term fixes for the bridge that collapsed on Interstate 5, Washington state officials said Saturday as federal inspectors scoured for clues that may impact bridge safety across the nation...

President Barack Obama says the nation must do more than just remember its fallen heroes on Memorial Day...

Authorities say a woman was taken to a hospital after she fell into the Red River and used her cellphone to direct rescuers to her location.

Sara Jane Olson, the Minnesota woman who served seven years in prison for her involvement in high-profile 1970s radicalism, is edging back into public life — this time voluntarily — as she and a friend petition the Obama administration to reduce disparities in prison sentences for crack and powder cocaine.

Thousands of bridges around the U.S. may be one freak accident or mistake away from collapse, even if the spans are deemed structurally sound...

Although the weather might not be ideal this Memorial Day holiday, it has not stopped people from getting outside.

As investigators in Washington State determine the cause of a bridge collapse that injured several people, Minnesota officials are reflecting on our own bridge collapse.

Crews are working to recover a body that was spotted in the Mississippi River near the Ford Dam in St. Paul Friday.

Protests against seed giant Monsanto are getting under way across the U.S. and in dozens of other countries.

Although it seems like it, Memorial Day doesn't ALWAYS bring miserable weather... but it does fall right in the heart of our rainy spring season.

Officers with the Sherburne County Sheriff's Department are searching the Wapiti Park Campground in Elk River for missing 2-year-old Daisy Jo Holland.

It's a student's rite of passage, closing the school year dunking the principal at an all day festival. But the ending being marked Friday at Keller Park in Maplewood had more finality to it than a school calendar.

In an appearance that was both honest and personal, Governor Mark Dayton shared the anguish felt by students at a Twin Cities elementary school after losing two classmates.

The city of St. Paul says it's hired a civil engineering firm to examine the site of a gravel slide this week that killed two children.

Gov. Mark Dayton has proclaimed Saturday as Missing Children's Day in Minnesota, part of a national effort to raise awareness about missing and exploited children.