FARGO, N.D. (AP) âÄî New flood projections for Fargo gave city officials a shock âÄî not only because of a higher forecast for the Red River, but because they have only a little more than...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) âÄî Minnesota's unemployment rate continued to climb in February, hitting a seasonally adjusted 8.1 percent as the state shed another 13,300 jobs. The state Department of Employment...

MINNEOTA, Minn. (AP) âÄî Everything is on the table as a small town in southwestern Minnesota considers cutting its budget, including eliminating its police department. Officials in Minneota (Min-ee-oh'-tuh)...

New population estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau show that several counties around the Twin Cities metro area continue to rapidly add population, while many Red River Valley counties continue to lose....

DALLAS (AP) âÄî School district documents show employees at a Dallas high school staged cage fights among troubled students, making them settle their differences with bare-knuckled brawls in a...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) âÄî A video released this week by a central Connecticut police department shows a former officer pummeling an unresisting suspect with his fists in an expletive-laced beating...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) âÄî Gov. Bill Richardson, who has supported capital punishment, signed legislation to repeal New Mexico's death penalty, calling it the "most difficult decision in my political...

WASHINGTON (AP) âÄî At least 13 firms receiving billions of dollars in bailout money owe a total of more than $220 million in unpaid federal taxes, a key lawmaker said Thursday. Rep. John Lewis,...

INDIANA, Pa. (AP) âÄî A suspended Pennsylvania state trooper faces life in prison after a jury convicted him in the bloody slashing death of a dentist who was divorcing the lawman's live-in girlfriend....