WATCH: Suspected impaired driver smashes into cars on Highway 36
MnDOT traffic cameras captured a suspected impaired driver plowing into other vehicles on a busy Twin Cities highway, with troopers close behind.
MnDOT traffic cameras captured a suspected impaired driver plowing into other vehicles on a busy Twin Cities highway, with troopers close behind.
Traffic cameras captured a motorist hitting several construction barrels Thursday on a Twin Cities highway, injuring a road worker in the process.
An oft-traveled route to the Rosedale Center mall in Roseville will close for a month starting Monday.
Authorities say a motorcyclist who died in a crash Wednesday evening wasn't discovered until hours later when a worker came to repair a guardrail damaged in the crash.
Authorities are investigating a fatal crash east of the Twin Cities Thursday morning.
A 30-year-old North St. Paul man was killed in a rollover crash that closed a stretch of Highway 36 for hours Tuesday morning.
A Brooklyn Park man was killed in a rollover crash on a Highway 36 exit Saturday evening.
Police said the man was arrested "without resistance," and is potentially facing multiple charges.
When responders arrived, the vehicle was "fully engulfed in flames," the state patrol said.
Officials in Roseville say to avoid westbound Highway 36 after a semi rollover late Monday morning.
Sam Hicks got an alert on his phone and looked down at it for just eight seconds; eight seconds at 63 miles per hour took the life of 54-year-old Robert Bursick.
A stretch of westbound Highway 36 in Maplewood is now open after being closed Friday morning due to a fatal crash.
The Minnesota State Patrol said they responded to a trolley engulfed in flames on Highway 36 near Cleveland Avenue in St. Paul. The patrol said there are no injuries and the incident is under investigation.
A damaged overhead sign structure led to the closure of westbound Highway 36 between Rice Street in Little Canada and Dale Street in Roseville, the Minnesota Department of Transportation said. The road is expected to be closed for a few hours Saturday evening.
Samuel Wayne Hicks issued a brief apology to the victims family before he was led off to jail.
The Minnesota State Patrol says Highway 36 near Stillwater is back open tonight after a semi caught fire.
The Minnesota State Patrol says a bicyclist from St. Paul was killed Wednesday afternoon after being struck by a pickup truck in Pine Springs.
The stretch of highway from Century Avenue to Interstate 694 was scheduled to close over the weekend.
The Minnesota State Patrol says a 51-year-old man died in a bicycle accident around 3:30 p.m. Friday in Oakdale. The White Bear Lake man crossed Highway 36 and Hadley Avenue in front of a GMC Yukon traveling eastbound, the patrol says.
The semi's in-cabin camera showed the driver had, at one point, been looking at his phone for eight seconds at one point.
The State Patrol says at least one person is dead after a crash Tuesday afternoon on Highway 36 in the east metro.
Oakdale police are investigating a possible road rage shooting Wednesday afternoon near Highway 36.
A 20-year-old North St. Paul man was critically hurt in a rollover crash early Saturday morning in Maplewood.
Gov. Mark Dayton signed two bills into law Tuesday that will mark portions of two Minnesota roads as memorials for officers who have lost their lives while in the line of duty.
A motorcyclist from Blaine was killed Wednesday afternoon after a sideswipe collision with a vehicle in Little Canada, according to the Minnesota State Patrol. Officers responded to the crash at about 12:03 p.m. on Interstate 35E near Highway 36.
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No formal charges have been filed against Sen. Nicole Mitchell.
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We'll have a dry, sunny morning in the Twin Cities, but showers will arrive around midday.
After a sunny start to Tuesday, more clouds and showers will arrive in the Twin Cities by midday.
Meteorologist Lisa Meadows says after a sunny start to Tuesday, more clouds and showers will arrive in the Twin Cities by midday.
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