The 36-year-old man is suspected of killing his 6-month-old son Saturday at the family's home in Eden Prairie, a city spokeswoman said.

More and more, philanthropic groups are funding programs focused on giving women and girls an opportunity for professional success.

Four people were on board for the pleasure ride forced to land in the westbound lanes of 185th Street near Interstate 35. No one was hurt.

U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann canceled a scheduled campaign appearance in St. Louis on Saturday for GOP Senate candidate Roy Blunt after being hospitalized with an undisclosed illness.

Investigators are piecing together what happened in a Chisholm classic car restoration business, which has shut down.

State Capitol was one of 12 around the globe. A year after the arrests, President Obama says their release by Iran is a "humanitarian imperative."

Statewide political campaigns don't spend much on newspaper ads these days. However, a national gay-rights group says the Star Tribune will publish it [...]

Friday P.M. Report Twin Cities airfares up in Q1, MoneyGram loss narrows in Q2, Northwest to pay $38M fine for price fixing, and Delta ending serv [...]

'What they're reading' -- U of M President Robert H. Bruininks By MinnPost staff | Friday, July 30, 2010 In today's installment, we hear from Uni [...]

Many people who have moved to St. Cloud say fitting in isn't easy -- regardless of one's race, ethnicity, or religion. Given their different appearance, culture and faith, Somalis and Muslim [...]

This summer, Lake Superior and the four other Great Lakes have been at or near record high temperatures for the 30 years such measurements have been taken. [...]

Authorities have identified the recently recovered remains of two passengers on a medical plane that crashed into Lake Michigan a week ago. [...]

Jordyn Patrick, 8, had swim lessons that recently paid off when she helped save her uncle from drowning in Lake Moses near Millerville. [...]

A little-known summer camp in St. Paul attracts kids from just about every corner of the globe to sing songs from their homelands and the world. [...]

Three people became ill July 12 and July 13 from E. coli, and health officials have now determined that the common link was that all three had visited the Lake Bemidji beach. [...]

Three years after the collapse of the Interstate 35W bridge, survivors deal with the emotional scars and the disappointment of yet another year without a memorial. [...]

Authorities have recovered another victim of a small plane crash in Lake Michigan more than a week ago. [...]

Those who rode around Cedar Lake on Thursday night were likely to run into a group of children on their bikes. They are part of the V3 Youth Triathlon Team, a non-profit group for children who live in [...]

The extreme sports park in Wisconsin Dells where a girl was severely injured on a free fall ride is up for foreclosure sale. [...]

Underwater searchers using sonar found the wreckage of a small medical plane Friday that crashed into Lake Michigan on a flight to the Mayo Clinic [...]

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Hundreds of canines and their owners took part in the annual Northeast Dog Parade Friday. [...]

Lawyers for Tom Petters are asking a federal appeals court to order a new trial for the Minnesota businessman, who was convicted last December of running a $3.7 billion Ponzi scheme [...]

The FBI hopes surveilance photos will lead to the arrest of a man who robbed a Maple Grove bank Friday [...]

For the die hard Vikings gawkers, day one at training camp in Mankato was a tough one. [...]

A six month old child is dead in Eden Prairie and his father is now being held on probable cause of 2nd degree murder. [...]

Kevin Slowey pitched eight sparkling innings as the Minnesota Twins beat the Seattle Mariners 4-0 Saturday night, but M-V-P Joe Mauer is headed to the bench... [...]

It’s a day etched in the minds of thousands of Minnesotans. [...]

A 36-year-old man is in the Hennepin County Jail Saturday night after police say he killed his infant son.  Police initially responded to a 9-1-1 hang-up call, and found an unresponsive infant.&# [...]

Hundreds of dead fish are turning up on the shore at Lake Harriet. Now, lake-goers are complaining about the mess and the awful stench.  One woman at the lake on Saturday said, “It’s [...]

19-year-old Pedro Ajete was pulled from Lake Nokomis Monday night by a fisherman.  The Hennepin County Medical Examiner says he died two days later. [...]

U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) went on FOX Business yesterday to address her concerns that the financial reform bill would exempt Security and E [...]

Tim Pawlenty released a new autobiographical web video that was ostensibly produced for his Freedom First PAC, but its content appears aimed at establ [...]

For the last few weeks, the campaign of Pat Anderson, the Republican candidate for state auditor, has slammed DFL incumbent Rebecca Otto for expenses [...]

Parents (or frequent babysitters): What do you do with your kids to get out of the house? My wife and I have a 4-month old and we catch cabin fever pr [...]

The State Fair Food Finder is now up & running! Study up so you can find the new foods like deep-fried cheeseburger sliders, Korean BBQ tacos, ch [...]

Erik Hare is trying something new. His new project, Mythnology, is part novel, part blog, part fiction, part truth, part written, part performance art [...]

Updated: "You'd like the UCC, Anne Rice" launches on Facebook. Details after the jump. Anne Rice, arguably the modern-day mother of America [...]

When it works as advertised, the Extreme World Terminal Velocity ride at Wisconsin Dells hauls you into the sky aboard a special cage. Then you do a f [...]

The news out of opening weekend at Vikings training camp in Mankato isn't Brett Favre's absence -- his presence would have stopped the presses, of cou [...]

By: Trevor BornJohn Harris, the man who helped win Minnesota's first NCAA hockey championship and two months later took down a Big Ten golf championsh [...]

By: John HagemanMinnesota associate golf head coach Kristine Wessinger will resign her position as the head coach of the women's golf team to start a [...]

By: Raghav MehtaThursday Music- Neil Young There are maybe five singer-songwriters alive on this planet who rival this undisputed rock deity. It's pro [...]

Dear Dr. Date, I was reading the Dr. Date section today and stumbled upon the letter of Seeking Some Social White Girls. I'm a cute girl who's social! [...]