Angela Swinford is making her first visit to the Minnesota State Fair this year, and on Tuesday noticed one thing right away. "It feels like the beach in Florida," said Swinford, of Athens, Ga., who will be operating Classic City Candy Co. on the second level of the grandstand with her husband, Brian. "It's a nice, warm welcome." Vendors preparing for the Great Minnesota Get-Together did their .
Minnesotans in the southern half of the state on Wednesday are enduring a second straight day of dangerous heat, joining millions in the nation's midsection placed under weather warnings as temperatures take another shot at reaching the century mark. An excessive heat warning covering an area from St. Cloud south to the Iowa border and extending into western Wisconsin remains in effect until .