ST. PAUL - In passionate back-and-forth testimony, the debate over same-sex marriage is playing out in a Minnesota Legislature moving toward the first votes on a bill to legalize it.
ST. PAUL - Senate Majority Leader Tom Bakk says there's still room to discuss an expanded sales tax even though Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton intends to abandon that budget approach.
DULUTH - Troopers will be conducting "speed weeks" — extra speed enforcement and education efforts — in March, June and July, as part of the Department of Public Safety Office of Traffic Safety's Toward Zero Deaths traffic safety initiative.