Rochester News

The Harlem Globetrotters, 9-Hot Shot Branch, will visit the Rochester Area Family Y for a basketball clinic at 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday.

St. Paul, Minn. -- The extended Thanksgiving weekend is bringing travelers out in huge numbers, and many of them will be filled with a little too much holiday cheer.A That's once again prompting law enforcement to step up patrols on Minnesota highways for drunk driving and other hazardous habits.

She can bang out beats with the best of them, but as a member of Sheltered Reality, Maggie Richardson knows playing the drums can be more than making music.

Dodge County is gearing up for three murder trials in the next few months. Jury selection in the trial of Danny Ortega Jr., 22, of Claremont, is set to begin Monday in Dodge District Court in Mantorville.

Two Minnesota residents have been killed and four others injured in a two-vehicle crash in southern Wisconsin.

Numerous criminal charges have been filed against a Rochester man stemming from a high-speed pursuit that started in Byron and ended in Rochester late Saturday.

There is some good news for travelers and a warning to air carriers heading into the Thanksgiving holiday weekend : The government is getting tough with airlines that strand passengers on airport tarmacs.

A 57-year-old Rochester woman was injured when the minivan she was driving was struck broadside by a semitrailer in Northfield on Sunday evening.

The bullet hit mother and son as they walked through Somalia's capital. She felt a sharp pain in her palm.

Residents of St. Charles still wonder about the future of the North Star Foods plant, seven months after fire devastated the city's largest employer.

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Police were called to the 500 block of Northern Hills Drive Northeast early Friday morning on a report that a man had been hit in the head with a fence post.

Instead of "holly jolly" or "merry," Minnesota researchers are using the words "gloomy" and "malaise" to describe their forecast for this holiday shopping season, although the Rochester area appears to have better prospects.

Rochester Montessori School has announced the hiring of a new executive director, who has also co-authored a popular book about the Montessori experience.

A tour bus driver suffered a ruptured aneurysm just before the bus veered off a southern Minnesota interstate and crashed, killing two people and injuring 20, the owner of the bus company said Thursday.

The Minnesota Supreme Court has upheld a nearly 16-year prison sentence given a Rochester man in connection with a drive-by shooting in 2006.

The Minnesota State Patrol has released the full list of passengers from the tour bus crash on Interstate 90 on Wednesday, and has confirmed the deaths of two women.

The two people killed in a Minnesota tour bus crash are being identified as two women from the southeastern corner of the state.

A series of traffic accidents in southeastern Minnesota had emergency responders hopping for several hours.

A state official says fatalities have been reported after a tour bus crashed and rolled over in southern Minnesota, but the number of people killed wasn't immediately known.