WCCO News' Riley Moser shares a statement from Minnesota State Patrol that's what it says responded to 169 crashes from midnight to 2 p.m. on Halloween. Of these accidents, 152 resulted in property damage, 16 resulted in injuries and one was fatal. There were also 94 spinouts and a jack-knifed semi.

FOX 9's Kilat Fitzgerald reports starting around 2 p.m. Thursday The Xcel Energy Outage Map reports more than 19,000 customers affected by more than 150 outages in the Twin Cities, St. Cloud and western Wisconsin metropolitan area.

The Star Tribune's Stephen Montemayor reports on a former Medtronic consultant, Doron “Ron” Tavlin received an 18-month prison sentence this week for his role in a related scheme the $1.6 billion acquisition of an Israeli medical device company in 2018.

Bill Strande reports on this with KARE 11 staff The Minneapolis City Council voted unanimously to ask the city's auditor to conduct an independent investigation into the incidents and cases in between Davis Moturi And John Sawchak.

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Grace Aigner of the Minnesota Daily reports that while the The Dinkytown Business Alliance is dead, Jackie BarabashSales manager for a web design company EL Lewis Enterprises Inc., Is tried to revive the organization.

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