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A winter storm dropped heavy snow Monday and churned up sharp gusts of wind across a swath of the Northern Plains and Upper Mississippi Valley before it was expected to push east.

Residents evacuated their homes and animals escaped from pens at a zoo as floods fed by a steady torrential downpour struck northeastern Minnesota, inundating the city of Duluth, officials said Wednesday.

The Dakotas, Minnesota and Wisconsin are bracing for more snow, and forecasters say the expected storm could be the worst of the season.

An engorged Mississippi river spilled out onto huge swaths of farmland in the American South and Midwest on Wednesday, prompting massive flooding from Minnesota to Louisiana.

Freezing rain and ice-covered roads made for a treacherous Saturday night in Minnesota, where more than 370 crashes were reported, most of them in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area, officials said Sunday.

Flooding caused by heavy rain that's lashed parts of the upper Midwest forced the evacuation Friday of dozens of homes in the small Minnesota ...

Deadly tornadoes touched down Thursday in Minnesota, killing at least two people, police said.