Minnesota News

Aggregated Minnesota News Articles

• Weekend picks: Can anyone slow down Michigan?
  
  Predictions for Michigan-Minnesota, Baylor-Texas Tech and other top games of the weekend.
  ESPN.  Fri, 15 Jan 2021 17:54:47 EST.
• Elliott: Kings show promise in opening-season loss, but there is plenty of room for improvement
  
  The Kings' 4-3 loss to Minnesota was a mishmash of good and bad that shouldn't have happened, even in a season opener that followed a 10-month break.
  Helene Elliott.  Los Angeles Times.  Fri, 15 Jan 2021 10:00:15 -0500.
• Five takeaways from the Kings' season-opening loss to Wild
  
  Takeaways from the Kings' 4-3 overtime season-opening loss to the Minnesota Wild.
  Jack Harris.  Los Angeles Times.  Fri, 15 Jan 2021 01:41:14 -0500.
• Minnesota opens vaccination to those 65 and older, though supply still low
  
  The move is intended to help health systems and other groups providing the vaccine to give out as many doses as they can, as quickly as they can.
  Carrigan Miller.  American City Business Journals.  Thu, 14 Jan 2021 22:48:51 +0000.
• Veteran litigator launches boutique firm Forsgren Fisher's Kansas City office
  
  A group of highly experienced trial lawyers founded a boutique law firm called Forsgren Fisher McCalmont DeMarea Tysver LLP, with offices in Kansas City and Minneapolis.
  James Dornbrook.  American City Business Journals.  Thu, 14 Jan 2021 20:39:20 +0000.
• Minneapolis hikers surprised by frozen caveman sculpture
  
  The art piece was added as a "prank" by a local artist who had kept it in storage.
  Peter Aitken.  Fox News.  Thu, 14 Jan 2021 19:39:26 GMT.
• ALLETE's (ALE) Unit Aims to Provide 100% Clean Energy by 2050
  
  ALLETE's (ALE) subsidiary Minnesota Power sets a target to provide completely carbon-free, more reliable and affordable energy to customers by 2050.
  Zacks Equity Research.  Zacks.  Thu, 14 Jan 2021 17:16:00 GMT.
• Officer with knee to George Floyd's neck to be tried alone from other three accused
  
  A former Minneapolis police officer who held his knee to the neck of George Floyd for almost nine minutes will be tried separately from the three other former officers accused in his death, according to an order filed Tuesday ...
  New Zealand Herald.  Wed, 13 Jan 2021 08:00:54 +1200.
• Minnesota Vikings Must Upgrade Defense To Avoid Humiliation In 2021
  
  If the Minnesota Vikings needed any more proof of how disastrous their 2020 season was, they got it Sunday in the wild-card round of the NFL playoffs. ...
  By Steve Silverman, Contributor.  Forbes.  Mon, 11 Jan 2021 15:26:48 -0500.
• Senator Klobuchar to Write Antitrust Book
  
  The Minnesota Democrat and former presidential candidate said her book would call for reform in how the United States treats monopolies and competition.
  Elizabeth A. Harris.  New York Times.  Mon, 11 Jan 2021 10:00:15 +0000.
• Garza scores 33, No. 5 Iowa beats No. 16 Minnesota 86-71
  
  Luka Garza scored 33 points and Joe Wieskamp added 20 as No. 5 Iowa defeated No. 16 Minnesota 86-71 on Sunday.
  Fox News.  Sun, 10 Jan 2021 22:39:26 GMT.
• 'The kid came out of me:' 91-year-old sleds down hill named after himself
  
  More than 100 people from Winthrop, Minnesota turned out to watch Dean Conklin go downhill sledding after the town named a hill after him.
  Cnnwire.  ABC News.  Sun, 10 Jan 2021 21:40:39 +0000.
• Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent Minnesota editorials
  
  Star Tribune, Minneapolis, Jan. 8 Cabinet must unify to protect country from Trump In the aftermath of a shocking, destructive invasion of the U.S. ...
  The Associated Press.  Washington Times.  Thu, 07 Jan 2021 18:37:43 -0500.
• Klobuchar on fallout from violent mob's U.S. Capitol attack
  
  Minnesota Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar joins "CBS This Morning" to talk about the violent attack on the U.S. Capitol and the fallout from that historic attack.
  CBS News.  Thu, 07 Jan 2021 11:43:58 -0500.

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