A senior U.S. official says Israel has essentially endorsed a framework of a proposed Gaza cease-fire and hostage release deal, and it is now up to Hamas to agree to it.
Wright County said one of its deputies fatally shot a driver of a vehicle early Saturday morning during a traffic stop when the subject got out of the vehicle with a weapon and confronted the deputy.
Four years after the COVID-19 pandemic closed schools, the CDC says parents can start treating the virus like other respiratory illnesses. Gone are mandated isolation periods and masking. Now the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says children can go back to school when their overall symptoms improve and they’re fever-free for 24 hours without taking medication.
More than 50 wildfires have already been reported in Minnesota this year. It is an early indication of what could become an especially active spring fire season after a historically warm and dry winter.
St. Paul police say shots were fired at a Ramsey County sheriff’s deputy during a vehicle pursuit on the city’s east side late Friday night. The deputy was evaluated at a hospital as a precaution.
Under waning daylight, folks lined up Thursday for an early Leap Day opening — replete with winter jackets and mittens, shuffling down the icy sidewalk for a hot fudge malt.