A lightning bolt struck the main tent pole, instantaneously killing two, gravely injuring another and knocking unconscious at least a dozen other nearby circus roustabouts and performers.
The world-famous Darwin Twine Ball, which has made the small town of Darwin, Minnesota, a destination and is the the world's largest ball of twine created by one man, was started by Francis A. Johnson 75 years ago this month.
One veteran's struggle to bring transparency to secretive UFO programs are part of the bipartisan political tide reaching highest levels of government.
In 1970, brothers Dave and John Kunst left Waseca, Minn., on foot. They hoped to walk around the world. In 1974鈥攁fter 14,000 miles and 20 million steps鈥擠ave Kunst walked back into Waseca, alone.
Gus Hall, born Arvo Kusta Halberg in the unincorporated community of Cherry to Finnish immigrants, was general secretary of the U.S. Communist Party from 1959 until his death in 2000.
What exactly was in the air that summer? Reports of 鈥渇lying saucers鈥� -- a new term -- flooded into police stations and newspapers all over the U.S., including in the Upper Midwest.
It was a late winter morning when a cashier's son entered Miltona State Bank and found a discovered a tampered vault door, an empty safe, and cans of cream, filled with water.
During a live broadcast with KIMT-TV in 2015, reporter Adam Sallet accidentally captured footage of the suspect robbing the bank for the second time in two days.
Marquis de Mores, a French nobleman who would be king, nearly altered the course of American history with his dueling pistols and a thirst for the hunt.
