The Fourth of July each year highlights a regional disparity: the Midwest is home to states with some of the strictest and the most permissive fireworks laws. Minnesota, unlike neighboring Wisconsin ...

They are festive, colorful and bright but also illegal in many cases in Minnesota. Fireworks that explode or leave the ground are against the law in Minnesota, but you might not ever know it after the ...

A teenager is dead after a firework hit him in the chest, killing him on the Fourth of July, Minnesota officials told news outlets. Deputies responded to a call for help at about 11 p.m. Friday, July ...