A man from Le Roy, previously a registered sex offender, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for sending obscene material to someone he thought was a minor.

The Met Council awarded almost $5 million for transit-linked development, aiming to foster affordable housing and jobs in Minneapolis, Saint Paul, and Richfield.

Xcel Energy was fined $14,000 by the MPCA for storing tritium-laced water without a permit, following a leak at Monticello Nuclear Plant. The spill was larger than initially reported, at 750,000 to 900,000 gallons.