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CLEVELAND (Reuters) - Three people were killed and a state trooper was seriously injured in a pileup of about 50 cars and trucks in Ohio after a winter storm covered the Great Lakes region in ice and snow Wednesday afternoon, according to state and county officials.

ALEXANDRIA, Minn. — Traffic on Interstate 94 just west of here has been reduced to one lane after a tanker truck carrying de-icing material rolled into the ditch about noon Friday because of icy road conditions. Eastbound I-94 is down to one lane for about a mile near...

By Will Ashenmacher St. Paul Pioneer Press NORTHFIELD, Minn. -- Although the accident remains under investigation, it seems that drugs and alcohol weren’t factors in the Dakota County crash that killed three Carleton College students Friday. James Adams, 20, of...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Public television science correspondent Miles O'Brien had his left forearm amputated during emergency surgery earlier this month after suffering what he thought was a minor blow to his limb while packing up some equipment, he said on Tuesday. O'Brien,...

HECTOR -- Two Willmar men were killed in a rollover accident Friday afternoon in Renville County. According to a news release from Renville County Sheriff Scott Hable, two unbelted passengers in a 2001 Dodge Caravan were ejected when the vehicle rolled over at about 3:15 p.m....

OMAHA, Nebraska (Reuters) - Explosions in two U.S. states, one at an animal feed plant in Nebraska and another at a steel plant in Oklahoma, killed at least four people and injured almost a dozen on Monday, authorities said.

BEMIDJI, Minn. -- An Arkansas woman was killed in a rollover crash Thursday afternoon on U.S. Highway 2 in Bemidji. According to the Minnesota State Patrol, a 2002 Chevrolet SK1 driven by Olen Defoure, 36, of Bald Knob, Ark., was traveling east on Highway 2 at about 1:45 p.m....

LITCHFIELD –– A 25-year old Cosmos man was injured Wednesday when the vehicle he was driving collided with a snow plow. Blowing snow and poor visibility is being blamed for the accident, which happened around 4:30 p.m. Wednesday on state Highway 4 and 160th Street...

WILLMAR -- The Minnesota Department of Transportation office in Willmar says that motorists traveling U.S. Highway 71 in Kandiyohi County south of Kandiyohi County Road 40 will encounter lane restrictions due to a crash. MnDOT crews are on the scene and are directing traffic,...

WILLMAR -- The man killed in a two-vehicle crash Saturday just east of Willmar was Steven Joseph Szalma, 38, of Kandiyohi. The Kandiyohi County Sheriff's Office released the man's name today in a news release. Szalma was the driver of one of the vehicles. The Sheriff's...

ST. LOUIS PARK, Minn. -- The driver of a car that crashed into a Twin Cities pond, killing two children and hospitalizing three others, did not have a valid driver’s license, authorities said Friday. Marion Guerrido, 23, of Brooklyn Center, who escaped the crash without injury...

ST. LOUIS PARK, Minnesota (AP) — Rescuers worked frantically to free five children trapped in a submerged car after it veered off a highway ramp in suburban Minneapolis and into a frigid pond, smashing windows to get inside even as a tow truck winched the car out. One of the...

ST. LOUIS PARK, Minn. (AP) — A car veered off a rain-slicked highway ramp in suburban Minneapolis early Thursday, landing in a nearby holding pond and trapping five children underwater for several minutes until a tow truck could pull it out, authorities said.

Forum News Service FARGO – Police have identified a 43-year-old former hockey coach as the man who was found dead Monday night near the railroad tracks in an industrial area of Fargo. Chad Lewis Johnson, of Fargo, died of injuries related to being struck by a train,...

SAUK RAPIDS, Minn. -- A pedestrian was struck and killed by a driver Saturday morning on Highway 10 near Sauk Rapids. The Minnesota State Patrol said Robert C. Schmit, 23, of St. Cloud, was struck by a 1990 Buick Century around 5:30 a.m. at milepost 176. He died at the...