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Former Gopher Casey O’Brien battling cancer for 6th time
MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - Casey O’Brien was diagnosed with and beat cancer five times during his time as a holder on special teams with the University of Minnesota football team. He got to be on the field to hold an extra point at Rutgers in 2019, one of the...
St. Paul District responds to summer flooding
As water levels continued to rise the last week of June, the St. Paul District activated its Emergency Operations Center to assist the state of Minnesota and surrounding communities with the summer flood risk. Nearly 50 district employees were activated to assist in the planning, coordination, staging and delivery sites,...
New Divine Mercy Catholic School to open for first school year
Two new playgrounds, new classrooms and new facilities with state-of-the-art equipment will be among the resources available to students of Divine Mercy Catholic School. One aspect among the benefits of the new building includes something students have looked forward to…
Pirates roster move sets up a potential reunion with an old friend for the Twins
Back in late February the Minnesota Twins sent a prospect out west to Los Angeles to acquire Manuel Margot from the Dodgers. The move was seen as an insurance policy for Byron Buxton, but it also put an end to any hope that Michael A. Taylor would return to Minnesota.
BCA Issues Statewide Alert For Missing Endangered Minnesota Man
Foley, MN (KROC-AM News) - A statewide endangered missing person alert has been issued for a missing central Minnesota man. The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension sent out the alert this afternoon at the request of the Foley Police Department. That agency has requested the public's help in finding 40-year-old Joshua James Woolsey.
Wild week of US weather includes heat wave, tropical storm, landslide, flash flood and snow
FALCON HEIGHTS, Minn. (AP) — It’s been a wild week of weather in many parts of the United States, from heat waves to snowstorms to flash floods. Millions of people in the Midwest have been enduring dangerous heat and humidity. An emergency medicine physician treating Minnesota State Fair-goers...
Severe weather forces fair-goers to take shelter; thousands remain without power across metro
MINNEAPOLIS — Thousands took shelter at the Minnesota State Fair while more than 90,000 people across the Twin Cities were left without power at one point after a severe storm swept through the metro Monday evening. Fair officials urged fair-goers to seek shelter while rides, attractions and some vendors...
Minnesota BCA looking for help finding Joshua Woolsey, 40
FOLEY, Minn. — The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) needs help finding a missing 40-year-old man.The BCA says Joshua Woolsey was last seen Aug. 9 in the Foley area, which is just northeast of St. Cloud.At that time, he was wearing a Fox racing shirt, tan cargo shorts and flip flops. The BCA says Woolsey may be in the Twin Cities. He is described as 5 feet 7 inches tall, weighs 140 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes. If you have any information on where he might be, call 911, the Foley Police Department at 320-968-0800 or the Benton County Dispatch at 320-968-7201.
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