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Monica Mary Margaret Say A woman had her two children in the car, ages 2 and 4, and an open bottle of rum in a diaper bag when she led police on a chase last week in western Hennepin County, police said today.

With an uncapped bottle of rum in the diaper bag and her two little ones in the car with her, a drunken driver led police on a 4-mile-plus chase through traffic in western Hennepin County before she pulled over and was arrested, authorities said this afternoon.

Republican representative Jim Ramstad easily won re-election to the U.S. Congress in Minnesota 3rd District.

Will Minnesota's 2010 race for governor be the next referendum on gay marriage? That's an oversimplification, because there will be many very clear issue differences in that race, especially in the general election.

While a large pack of Democratic and Republican gubernatorial candidates has roamed across Minnesota for months clamoring for attention, the state's third and smallest "major party," the Independence Party, has yet to field a single credible contender.

Minnesota bridges rated: An interactive map of bridges that are "structurally deficient," "functionally obsolete" or have gusset plates like those on the I-35W bridge.

Casella is on sabbatical in Northern Ireland studying films from the silent era and attending various film festivals.

The Democrats trying to win their party's endorsement to run against Republican U.S. Rep.

Ethonel another goverment boondoogle forced down out throats Lowers mileage, lower performance, highly corrosive, raises food prices , read more puts more land into production that was not farmed in the past, Raises price of fuel overall What a wondrful deal and I am forced to pay higher taxes for this great benefit Minnesota business by the ...

Fomer Independence Party candidate Tim Penny concedes the gubernatorial race at the Mall of America in 2002.

Even here in the Capital City, publication of the new edition of Minnesota's "Blue Book" doesn't exactly rank up there with the latest from, say, John Grisham or Patricia Cornwell or John Sanford.

Plymouth, Cottage Grove, Ramsey and Rosemount are in the vanguard of municipal frugality in a down economy.

The statistics came quickly, but they add up to one thing -- southern Minnesota could see a work force crunch as larger generations age and smaller ones move into the work force.

Without it, Minnesota risks economic decline, two Toms warn. Last update: September 9, 2009 - 5:58 PM SLOWER GROWTH AHEAD Minnesotans became used to rapidly growing state government in the 1990s, state economist Tom Stinson notes.

Amid a sea of fair-goers noshing on Sweet Martha's cookies and Pronto Pups, Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill Haas is busy trying to win over potential supporters.

A Republican candidate for mayor of Minneapolis who says he was denied a chance to file both his party and his political principle below his name on the city ballot is seeking a judge's ruling that would force the city to accept both.

I find it a sad state of affairs that we tend to judge candidates for elected office on how much donor gifts they cash and spend rather than the candidate's vision and character.

Having ruthless dictators controlling the launch sequence for intercontinental ballistic missiles tipped with nuclear weapons is the world's worst nightmare.

Elwyn Tinklenberg, the DFL Party's 6th Congressional District candidate in 2008, announced Tuesday that he was ending his campaign to run in 2010.

Beverley Anderson Manley, former First Lady of Jamaica will deliver the keynote address for the Jamaica Minnesota Organizationa s Annual Independence Gala 7 pm Sat., August 8, 2009, at the Radisson Plaza Hotel Ballroom, 35 S. 7th Street, in downtown Minneapolis.