With mixed results, J.J. McCarthy is two games into what appears to be a 10-game audition to be the Vikings’ starting quarterback next season. The way it looks now, unless McCarthy, 22, improves steadily, the Vikings won’t simply hand him … Continued
There was no “player to be named later” in the trade, roughly a year ago, that sent defenseman Daemon Hunt to Columbus as part of the package that brought defenseman David Jiricek to Minnesota. Yet here we are, fifty weeks … Continued
Frankie Capan III continues to play well this fall. The North Oaks’ native — Minnesota’s lone PGA Tour member — birdied the final three holes of his third round Saturday in the Butterfield Bermuda Championship to get to 9-under for … Continued
Authorities say a woman who was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver in St. Paul is a 30-year-old St. Paul woman. The Ramsey County Medical Examiner’s Office identified the woman in Thursday’s fatal pedestrian crash as Amber O. Deneen, 30, … Continued
As some patrol officers in the Twin Cities are starting to use artificial intelligence for composing their reports, the St. Paul Police Department isn’t yet taking the leap to the cutting-edge Axon Draft One. The department recently implemented its first … Continued
EUGUNE, Ore. — The visitors’ postgame interview “room” for Autzen Stadium didn’t, in a small way, cushion the fall from the Gophers’ 42-13 loss to eighth-ranked Oregon on Friday. It didn’t even sterilize from it. Thin white walls of a … Continued