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The Minneapolis City Council has given final approval to a financing package that will build the Minnesota Vikings a new, taxpayer-subsidized, $1 billion stadium on the site of the Metrodome.
Thousands of high school students from more than 200 schools across Minnesota, neighboring states and Canada made Valleyfair Amusement Park in Shakopee their classroom this week. It's a yearly tradition known as Physics Day and this year marked the 25th year the amusement park hosted it.
The legal tab for the Minnesota Senate over the firing of a high-ranking staffer is $46,150 and counting.
What's new in restaurants? Six new interesting establishments have opened recently in the Twin Cities.
Brainerd officials say an unconventional source of energy to heat holds huge energy potential for heating and cooling buildings, likely starting with the city police station and a school building.
A few months ago, university students struck a chord and packed in the crowds with "The War Within," a dark farce of loosely connected sketches of commentary on absurdities in life and the workplace. The play is now reworked as a tour through the endless war of daily existence.
The sun is setting on Lake Superior as members of the Spin Collective dancers soak small kevlar orbs in fuel and set them afire. Then, wielding them at the end of chains or long metal arms, they begin twirling the orbs in what's called a poi dance.
President Barack Obama delivered his harshest rebuttal yet to rival Mitt Romney, dismissing his challenger's claims as "a cowpie of distortions" as he sought to rekindle the all-but-faded Iowa magic that launched him in 2008.
A month after a top Minnesota lawmaker belittled the North Dakota Capitol, one of his fellow GOP House members proclaimed it an "amazing structure" on Thursday after getting a personal tour from Gov. Jack Dalrymple.
For people living outside Tornado Alley, Caleb and Candra Pence's wedding last Saturday is generating the kind of buzz usually reserved for celebrity nuptials.
Pictured above, investigators leave the home of a New Jersey man who confessed to choking a 6-year-old New York City boy to death in 1979. Police was arrested Pedro Hernandez, 51 in the death of Etan Patz, the first arrest in a case that helped give rise to the nation's missing-children movement.
Gov. Mark Dayton today vetoed a bill to change parenting time in child custody cases by increasing the minimum amount of time each parent would spend with the child from 25 percent to 35 percent.
A Minneapolis City Council committee voted Thursday to approve a tax shift that would fund construction of the new Minnesota Vikings stadium on the site of the Metrodome. The margin was 7-6 in favor, and will be followed by a final vote on Friday.
The Hennepin County Attorney's office today fired back against Amy Senser's request for acquittal or a new trial.
Gov. Mark Dayton says the Southwest Light Rail Transit project is among his top transit priorities, but the Legislature adjourned without approving any money for the line. Now, planners say they will try to keep the LRT on track with other funding sources.
Canada police arrest nearly 700 students CANADIAN police made nearly 700 arrests after mass protests by students in several cities on Wednesday night.
(heraldsun world)
Dirt Showdown review Dirt Showdown is a boisterous and varied racer best enjoyed with friends, writes Tom Hoggins.
(telegraph technology)
NASA time - lapse shows Lyrid meteor shower from space - as well as the Aurora Borealis and lightnin ISS astronauts captured a cameo appearance from the Lyrid metorite shower, as well as lightning and glare from city lights in Florida.
(dailymail sciencetech)
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