Minnesota

Minnesota went for President Barack Obama for the second time, following his win nationwide. While, pre-election polls offered conflicting views about whether Minnesota was in play in the presidential election, the president did will in Minnesota, collecting nearly 52 percent of...

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Minnesota Democrats are launching what they call the most ambitious get-out-the-vote campaign ever, including sending around the state a tour bus featuring gigantic photos of President Barack Obama, Gov. Mark Dayton and U.S. Sen.

ST. PAUL -- Two Republican state senators today filed paperwork alleging that Secretary of State Mark Ritchie has misled Minnesotans about a proposed constitutional amendment to require voters to show photographic identification. Sens.

Minneapolis -- The Associated Press state high school football polls for the week of September 12, first-place votes in parentheses, record and total points as voted upon by a statewide panel of prep sports writers: Class 6A School Total Points Prv 1. Eden Prairie (9) (2-0) 90 1 2....

PERHAM, Minn. - A married couple from Canada were injured in a broadside-type accident today between Perham and New York Mills in Otter Tail County, the Minnesota State Patrol reported. Inge Pechous and her husband, Zdenek Pechous, both 70 and from Elliot Lake, Ontario, were taken...

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FERGUS FALLS, Minn. - No foul play is suspected at this time in the death of a 23-year-old Fergus Falls man found in a vehicle Friday morning. The Otter Tail County Sheriff's Office received a report about 10:50 a.m. Friday of an unresponsive male parked in a vehicle in a driveway...

Federal officials today rejected Minnesota's request to financially help individuals affected by last month's floods in the northeastern part of the state. "It has been determined that the damage to dwellings from this event was not of such severity and magnitude as to warrant" establishing...

Death threats, demands to resign and other attacks to have only made state Rep. Mary Franson more determined to stay in office, she says. A Democratic-Farmer-Laborite campaign official sent Internet links to a video clip of a recent Franson speech in Browerville in which she discusses...

ST. PAUL -- Supporters of a constitutional amendment proposal to ban gay marriage are asking the Minnesota Supreme Court to reject a rewritten title that voters will see when they vote on the proposal Nov.

The first human case of West Nile virus disease in 2012 in a Minnesota resident has been confirmed. State health officials are urging Minnesotans to protect themselves from mosquitoes from now through the autumn frost. A St. Louis County man is the state's first laboratory-confirmed...