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A woman was killed Thursday after the vehicle she was driving crashed into the back of a MnDOT pickup truck in the Twin Cities area.

A Lake City woman and her two children were transported to St. Marys Hospital Saturday afternoon following a traffic crash in Red Wing.

It has been a rough month for the Minnesota State Patrol, both in terms of the long hours worked by troopers in the inclement weather and the damage inflicted on State Patrol squad cars.

The light snow that has been falling in southern Minnesota today is contributing to a number of traffic crashes and vehicle spinouts in the region.

Alcohol was listed as a factor in one of the four injury crashes reported in the region on Friday and Saturday.

A Mantorville woman was transported to St. Marys Hospital yesterday following a collision on at a rural intersection in Dodge County.

A southeastern shift in the track of the winter storm affecting the region today has significantly lessened the amount of snow expected in the Rochester area, but road conditions remain dicey.

The slick conditions created by the light snow that fell across the region overnight may have contributed to a fatal crash in Goodhue County this morning.

A Faribault man suffered life-threatening injuries in a New Year's Eve crash on I-35 in Lakeville when a Northbound vehicle rolled over the median into Southbound traffic in Lakeville.

The State Patrol says alcohol was detected in the teenage victim of a traffic crash that occurred Sunday evening in southwestern Minnesota.