Heatley Leads Wild To 4-2 Win Over Blue Jackets
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Dany Heatley, Devin Setoguchi and Mike Yeo sure enjoyed their first game with the Minnesota Wild. The fans had a good time, too. This team has a much higher entertainment...
View ArticleSee Purported Longest, Oldest Haunted Hayride In Minn.
COLUMBUS, Minn. (WCCO) — If you have the stamina for it, you might want to check out the spooky trail its owners claim is the oldest, longest haunted hayride in Minnesota. Chris Stanford took a...
View ArticleWild Surge To 4-2 Win Over Blue Jackets
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — After a long five-game road trip, the Minnesota Wild are looking forward to returning home. Cal Clutterbuck scored in the third period and the Wild rallied with four unanswered...
View ArticleAnoka County Sheriff To Discuss 1987 Cold Case Murder
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — The Anoka County Sheriff’s Office will hold a press conference Monday to discuss developments in a cold case murder from 1987. Authorities say they hope additional evidence that...
View ArticleAuthorities Hope DNA Evidence Will Crack 1987 Case
ANOKA, Minn. (AP) — The Anoka County sheriff’s department is hoping new DNA evidence will help crack a cold case that’s nearly 25 years old. Armonjean Mason’s body was found along a road in Columbus on...
View ArticleAnother Charged For Allegedly Photographing Boys At YMCA
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Phone calls from a man accused of photographing boys as they dressed in a YMCA locker room led to charges Friday for a Columbus, Minn., man who allegedly did the same thing....
View ArticleAuthorities Investigating Apparent Murder In Columbus
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Authorities are looking for a suspect after a body was found in a cul de sac Monday in the north metro town of Columbus. The Anoka County Sheriff’s Office was called at about 9:30...
View ArticleBackstrom Carries Wild Past Blue Jackets
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Jason Pominville got a surprise shortly before taking the ice for his new team, the Minnesota Wild, on Sunday night. His wife, kids and father-in-law drove down from Buffalo,...
View ArticleRacino Bill Aims To Solve Stadium Funding Woes
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Funding for the Viking stadium has come up short at the Capitol in the past, but racino advocates say lawmakers can’t ignore it any longer. Supporters say passing a racino bill...
View ArticleNature Wows At The Wildlife Science Center
COLUMBUS, Minn. (WCCO) — It is an unmistakable sound in nature. A chorus of voices we don’t often get to hear up close, let alone see in person. But at the Wildlife Science Center in Columbus, visitors...
View ArticleDeduno’s Rocky Start Costs Twins In 4-2 Loss
CLEVELAND (AP) — Samuel Deduno got into a nice groove in his first start of the season. Unfortunately, the damage already had been done. The right-hander allowed four runs and five hits over the first...
View ArticleAudit: Track Owners Shorted Horse Race Purses
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Operators of a Minnesota horse racing track shorted race purses by nearly $437,000 over four years during which regulators failed to adequately scrutinize the payouts, a state...
View ArticleSheriff: Man Arrested For Attacking Woman With Hammer
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Authorities say a man was arrested Thursday for allegedly attacking a woman with a hammer in an incident north of the Twin Cities. The Anoka County Sheriff’s Office was called to...
View ArticleConnauton Lifts Blue Jackets Past Wild, 3-1
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Kevin Connauton had a goal and an assist and Sergei Bobrovsky made 28 saves to lead the Columbus Blue Jackets past the Minnesota Wild 3-1 on Wednesday night. With the game knotted...
View ArticleWild Blog: Team Adds Size, Depth At Defense
Just when you thought maybe the Wild were done making moves and that this year’s NHL trade deadline would come and go with the Wild keeping their team as is, everything changed. The Wild first added...
View ArticleCleanup Of Oil Spill At ND Farm To Take 2 More Years
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — At Steve and Patty Jensen’s northwestern North Dakota farm, crews have been working around-the-clock after a pipeline break spilled more than 20,000 barrels of oil into their...
View ArticleMan Gets 60 Days For Recording Boys Change At YMCA
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – A 49-year-old Columbus, Minnesota, man was sentenced Monday to 60 days in jail for videotaping two juvenile boys changing their clothes at the Andover YMCA. Christopher Michael...
View ArticleSheriff: Missing Ohio Woman’s Car Found In Rice Co.
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — The Rice County Sheriff’s Office is asking for the public’s help to find a missing Ohio woman. A deputy found an abandoned car Monday night in a parking lot at Shagger Park on...
View ArticleIn Ohio Woman’s Murder, Suspect’s Wife Says There’s More To The Story
FARIBAULT, Minn. (WCCO) — The wife of a Faribault man accused of killing a woman from Ohio believes there’s more to the story than what police have made public. Rice County formally charged Jason...
View ArticleVigil Held For Minnesota Siblings Killed In Ohio Fire
ST. PAUL, Minn. (WCCO) — A brother and sister killed in house fire in Ohio are being remembered tonight. Kathryn Foster, 10, and Aaron Foster, 12, were staying with their aunt near Columbus on June 12...
View ArticleMinor Injuries For Pilot Who Crashed In Columbus, Sheriff’s Office Says
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Authorities say a pilot sustained minor injuries when his plane crashed north of the metro Sunday morning. The Anoka County Sheriff’s Office said the man’s ultralight aircraft lost...
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