Elizabeth Baier

The discussion comes a month after the department received anti-Muslim images that allegedly appeared on Officer Ben Schlag's Facebook page.

Nearly three years after Mayo Clinic won state funding to help build its massive Destination Medical Center project, Rochester leaders want shovels in the ground but say it's been a slow start.

LaDue's father, David, says his son told him the city where he is but the family still doesn't know the name of the facility.

John LaDue was set to return to his Waseca home Thursday to live temporarily with his parents until officials found a bed for him at a state-run evaluation facility.

A blight in the early 1900s wiped out the species, once known as the "Redwoods of the East." Now, a southern Minnesota farm is producing hybrid chestnut trees that survive winters and bear fruit.

Court plans for John LaDue hit a snag after a Georgia facility wouldn't accept him. If a bed doesn't open up at a Minnesota facility by Thursday, he may end up at his parents' house.

Private and public funders in Minnesota and Wisconsin have committed $660,000 to further high-speed rail service between the Twin Cities and Chicago. The group hopes to complete an environmental analysis by next year.

Joyce Helens, president of St. Cloud Technical and Community College will run Rochester Community and Technical College while officials seek a permanent replacement for Leslie McClellon, who resigned last month under pressure.

John LaDue, 19, was set to go to an autism spectrum facility in Georgia, but it didn't accept him.

The theater purchase is considered a Destination Medical Center project.

The deaths of thousands of fish in the Whitewater River likely came from a mix of conditions following heavy rains rather than a single chemical, biological or environmental cause, officials said.

Opposition is mounting against two high-speed rail proposals to link the Twin Cities and Rochester. Both options are years from becoming reality, but residents along the Highway 52 corridor are fighting mad already.

Leslie McClellon says her presidency has diverted the college from its mission.

The city's industrial past makes redeveloping the downtown area a complicated business.

Officer Mitchell Jenson, 49, had come under investigation for reasons the sheriff's department declined to disclose.

Attracting young professionals to Rochester is critical to the success of the massive Destination Medical Center project. But getting them to come and stay won't be easy.

A letter from faculty, staff and students describes "grave concern" over leadership of RCTC's president.

The Department of Public Safety says Columbia Heights Sgt. Erik Johnston and Fridley Officer Shawn Murphy shot 45-year-old Michael Kirvelay of Montrose after he refused to show his hands.

Owner Bruce Johnson says a lawsuit over the "red wing" insignia has led to threats and harassment, leading him to close the salesroom.

The battle of Ia Drang, where both sides claimed victory, gave Americans a sense of the kind of war they had gotten into.