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Moorhead Police ask for help in search for missing teen
MOORHEAD, Minn. — Moorhead Police are asking for the public's help in finding a 16-year-old reported as missing. The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) posted on X that teenager Jonathan Fleury was last seen leaving a Moorhead care facility on Sept. 16. Fleury is described as 5 feet...
Protests continue on the U of M campus after 11 people were arrested Monday inside Morrill Hall
MINNEAPOLIS — Protests continued at the University of Minnesota Tuesday after 11 people were arrested the night before after barricading themselves inside Morrill Hall, and damaging the building. Across town, outside the Hennepin County Justice Center, those involved in last night's protest were waiting out front for the 11...
U of M protests: Freedom of speech v. public safety
MINNEAPOLIS — The aftermath of students taking over Morrill Hall at the University of Minnesota has protesters standing firm in their push for the University to divest in financial connections to Israel. On Tuesday, a group of students from the U of M Divestment Coalition waited for 11 students and alumni to be released from jail after being arrested Monday night.
Mother fights to install barriers at bridge where her daughter died by suicide
MINNEAPOLIS — On Tuesday night, Suicide Awareness Voices of Education (SAVE), a nonprofit dedicated to ending suicide through education, held a meeting to update the community on the progress of installing suicide prevention barriers on a bridge on the University of Minnesota campus. Their CEO says, rather, he is...
13-year-old was volunteering when he died at haunted hayride
ST AUGUSTA, Minn. — Alexander "Xander" Mick, the 13-year-old boy who died on Oct. 12 at a haunted hayride, was volunteering when the deadly incident occurred, officials say. The Stearns County Sheriff's Office said Mick was a volunteer at the Harvest of Horror Haunted Hayride in St. Augusta when he was run over by a trolley wagon being pulled by a tractor. According to a press release, Mick's job at the hayride was to frighten the riders being pulled through the cornfield area.
MPD applicants are up, but that's not turning into many new hires
MINNEAPOLIS — The number of people applying to the Minneapolis Police Department is up – as of Tuesday morning, that number is up 78% year to date compared to last year. With 1,125 applicants, that seems like a number that would excite the department. Instead, Chief Brian O'Hara...
Fishin' for friends: Minnesota angler nets greatest catch yet
MADISON LAKE, Minn. — The story of 41-year-old angler Erik Koffski and his new 16-week-old sidekick began on an early September morning, right before sunrise, as Koffski started fishing in a tournament on Madison Lake in southern Minnesota. Koffski said for the next half hour, he could hear an...
Minnesota Lynx players try to focus on positives of historic season despite tough loss in the finals
MINNEAPOLIS — Just two days after a devastating loss in Game 5 of the WNBA finals, Lynx players say the sting of defeat is still there, but they are trying to focus on the great things that happened this year as their season comes to a close. "I mean,...
Suspect in custody after shots fired in Minneapolis, person killed in Kandiyohi County
MINNEAPOLIS — Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara said Tuesday a man is in custody after officers responded to "an instance of domestic violence" at a Minneapolis apartment building. Authorities in Kandiyohi County say the man drove to their county, where he fatally shot one person and injured another. The...
Missing St. Paul teen found safe
ST PAUL, Minn. — A missing teenager in St. Paul has been found safe, according to a brief news release from the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA). The 16-year-old had been last seen around 5 a.m. Tuesday in the area of Forest Street and Fourth Avenue East in St. Paul's Dayton Bluff neighborhood. Officials described him as a nonverbal autistic teen.
St. Paul Police asking for public's help finding missing non-verbal 16-year-old
ST PAUL, Minn. — The St. Paul Police Department is asking for the public's help in finding a "non-verbal autistic" teenager, according to a brief news release from the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. Ke-Andre Oliver-Butler was last seen around 5 a.m. Tuesday in the area of Forest St....
City Council candidate claims he's George Floyd's cousin — his family says otherwise
RICHMOND, Va. — Editor's note: The video above first aired on KARE 11 in May 2024. Relatives of a City Council candidate in Richmond, Virginia, are casting doubt on his claim that he is a cousin of George Floyd, the Black man whose 2020 death in police custody reignited the national Black Lives Matter movement.
Lithium source in Arkansas could meet world demand 'nine times over', study says
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A new study conducted by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and the Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment (ADEE) discovered a method to "quantify the amount of lithium present in brines located in a geological unit known as the Smackover Formation." The study, which...
Celebrity chef Justin Sutherland pleads guilty after threatening to shoot girlfriend
ST PAUL, Minn. — Court documents show celebrity chef Justin Sutherland has pleaded guilty to charges alleging he pulled a gun and threatened to shoot his girlfriend last June. Sutherland signed a document in Ramsey County pleading guilty to one count of threats of violence - reckless disregard in...
How students can participate in the North Star Promise Scholarship program
ST PAUL, Minn. — College is a luxury that many smart and hardworking students may not be able to afford. With Minnesota's North Star Promise Scholarship, many qualified students are now able to access quality education without tuition or fees. Metro State University has seen a lot of success with this new program implemented this fall.
More walleye, more worries: Idaho Fish and Game asks anglers to catch and kill walleye
BOISE, Idaho — Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he might just be helping Idaho Fish and Game (IDFG). IDFG is asking anglers to come out and catch walleye fish, also known as yellow pike, as the fish are spreading in Idaho waters at an alarming rate.
Prosecutors begin process of retrying Cody Fohrenkam for murder of Deshaun Hill
MINNEAPOLIS — The process of retrying the man convicted of murdering a talented North High School student-athlete begins in earnest Tuesday, with a hearing in the case of Cody Fohrenkam. Fohrenkam was convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to more than 38 years for the shooting death of 15-year-old...
STEP Academy further in debt, board members resign
ST PAUL, Minn — There was chaos and confusion Monday night at a St. Paul charter school board meeting as it discussed its financial crisis. STEP Academy is on the brink of shutting down as its finance director announced it's now exponentially further in debt. On top of that,...
Unguarded absentee ballots have all been accounted for
MINNEAPOLIS — Hennepin County elections officials Monday confirmed that the absentee ballots left unattended for nearly seven minutes last week were all accounted for and had not been altered or tampered with in any other way. No ballots were removed from the shipment or added to it. Ginny Gelms,...
Men’s & women’s records shattered in Ely’s one-of-a-kind canoe portaging marathon
ELY, Minn. — Editor’s note: This story originally aired in October of 2018. At this year’s Ely Marathon, both male and female runners set records in the canoe portaging division. Drew Boysen of Iowa City, Iowa set a record in the men's division with a time of 4:11:01, shaving roughly 20 minutes off the old record.
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