MINNEAPOLIS, April 21 (UPI) -- A lack of healthcare in rural Minnesota prevents veterans from accessing their benefits, U.S. Rep. Tim Walz, D-Minn., and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi were told.

MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 15 (UPI) -- Common algae from ponds and waste-water treatment plants may produce vast amounts of burnable oil, say researchers at the University of Minnesota.

MINNEAPOLIS , Nov. 23 (UPI) -- A Minneapolis man said his 72-pound Thanksgiving turkey was the result of a longstanding big-turkey-cooking rivalry with his sister.

MINNEAPOLIS, Nov. 21 (UPI) -- A U.S. District judge has refused to dismiss a lawsuit from a group of Muslim imams who were arrested last year for praying before boarding a jetliner.

MINNEAPOLIS, Nov. 16 (UPI) -- Jesse Ventura, the ex-pro wrestler who became governor of Minnesota, explains why he left politics in his new book, "Don't Start the Revolution Without Me."

MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- Vernon Bellecourt, a longtime leader of the American Indian Movement, has died of complications from pneumonia at a Minneapolis hospital a the age of 75.

MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 2 (UPI) -- Officials said Tuesday Minneapolis residents could reclaim nearly $2.8 million in fines incurred from videotapes showing their vehicles running red lights.

MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 21 (UPI) -- After 20 days of searching, the body of the 13th and final fatality in the Aug. 1 Minneapolis bridge collapse has been pulled from the Mississippi River.

MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 19 (UPI) -- Search crews Sunday pulled the body of a Minneapolis man from the Mississippi River, raising the death toll from the collapse of a highway bridge to 12.