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ST. PAUL -- President Barack Obama will visit St. Paul Wednesday, not Minneapolis like the White House earlier announced. Obama plans to announce "a new competition encouraging investments to create jobs and restore infrastructure as part of the President’s Year of Action,"...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A public memorial service for Nelson Mandela will be held Saturday in St. Paul. The memorial for the late South African leader and anti-apartheid fighter will begin at 1 p.m. in the Cathedral of St. Paul. Scheduled speakers include U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar,...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A judge on Monday gave the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis until Dec. 17 to disclose a list of 33 priests deemed to have been credibly accused of sexually abusing minors. Ramsey County District Judge John Van de North, Jr., also ordered the Diocese...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis is seeking a court's permission to disclose the names of some priests who have been accused of sexually abusing minors. Archbishop John Nienstedt says he will disclose the names, locations and status of all...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Fire officials say a man has been found dead in his burning St. Paul home. First District Chief Stacy Hohertz says firefighters had some difficulty entering the home early Tuesday because of a large number of books and magazines blocking the...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Police have arrested a suspect in the fatal shooting of a St. Paul bar owner. The Star Tribune reports a 26-year-old Oakdale man was in custody Monday. Police wouldn't say why 45-year-old Vone Moua as shot at Malina's Sport Bar, but say it wasn't...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A western Minnesota man has pleaded not guilty to illegal weapons charges in a case that the FBI called a foiled terror plot. Buford Rogers made a brief appearance in federal court in St. Paul Friday where he was arraigned on four charges, which do not...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A Minnesota man has been charged with stalking for allegedly striking up an online relationship with his ex-wife using a fictitious persona with borrowed photographs. Dakota County prosecutors say the West St. Paul woman had no idea the man who called...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The Como Park Zoo is opening a new $11 million home for its seven gorillas. The new outdoor primate yard is almost three times the size of the old enclosure once occupied by just a pair of gorillas at the St. Paul zoo. Minnesota Public Radio reports...

ST. LOUIS PARK, Minn. (AP) — Students at a St. Louis Park elementary school gathered around a makeshift memorial filled with stuffed animals and flowers on Friday as they mourned two classmates who died in a landslide during a field trip to a Mississippi River park. Meanwhile,...

FARGO, N.D. (AP) — The city of Fargo is getting help from other states in its quest to fill a million sandbags to prepare for expected spring flooding. Volunteers from the Headwaters Relief organization in Minneapolis-St. Paul were among the workers last week when Fargo kicked off...

ST. PAUL (AP) — St. Paul police want access to Facebook postings from a man charged in the death of his wife. Authorities want to see all content, including messages and photos, from Jeffery Trevino's account. Search warrant affidavits also seek the same information for Trevino's...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A judge has entered a not guilty plea on behalf of a St. Paul man charged with killing his wife, who remains missing. Thirty-nine-year-old Jeffrey Trevino appeared in Ramsey County District Court on Friday on second-degree murder charges. The judge found probable...