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After leasing trees on state land for 25 years, Mark and Melinda Spinler fear they'll be shut down.

The victim was found soon afterward in Minneapolis with a gunshot wound to the back of the head, according to the criminal complaint.

The shooting occurred in the 3500 block of Penn Avenue N., police said.

Lawrence and Ann Roscoe, of Duluth's Lakeside neighborhood, were found in the top level of the parking ramp on Thursday evening.

Hours before the start of a federal government shutdown, President-elect Donald Trump doubled-down Friday on his insistence that a debt ceiling increase be included in any deal -- and if not, let the closures ''start now.''

A housing study said St. Cloud needs 17,000 new housing units by 2040.

The move means fast internet will extend to less populated areas in Crow Wing and Morrison counties.

Mayor Dave Kleis said he asked Lenora Hunt to resign from the city's planning commission after she was charged for illegally transferring a gun.

Rocky and Bullwinkle creator Jay Ward leased a tiny isle on Lake of the Woods as a publicity stunt and took a silly bid for statehood all the way to the White House.

Darisha Bailey Vath, 17, was killed when Dylan Simmons, 21, struck her with his vehicle after a fight among a group of people at a park in Forest Lake. A Washington County jury found him guilty of second degree murder.