Now 37 and retired, Ledley King is still a team ambassador for England's Tottenham Hotspur club, which is in Minneapolis this week to play Italy's AC Milan in the second International Champions Cup game to be played at U.S. Bank Stadium.
Thousands of supporters and overjoyed members of Minnesota's large Ethiopian community welcomed the new prime minister Abiy Ahmed to Minneapolis Monday.
Stillwater prison officer Joseph Gomm received parting honors from the close-knit family of law enforcement, as well as hundreds of people who lined the route of his funeral procession.
The X Games have brought extreme sports athletes competing in motocross, BMX biking and skateboarding events to downtown Minneapolis. The action, which wraps up Sunday, is centered at U.S. Bank Stadium.
Thousands of protesters gathered in downtown Minneapolis on Saturday to demand change in the nation's immigration policies. It was one of hundreds of marches held nationwide.
The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension is investigating the fatal police shooting of an black man in north Minneapolis over the weekend. Hundreds of people gathered for a Sunday afternoon protest at a police station and a candlelight vigil near the shooting scene.