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  • Businessman sentenced for selling pharmaceutical drugs
    The owner of a Northfield pharmaceutical disposal company is sentenced to four years in prison for selling some of the drugs he was supposed to destroy or return to the manufacturers.November 18, 2009
  • Group staging protest of GAMC elimination
    A group of low-income people and advocates will stage a "never-ending emergency room waiting line" outside of the Hennepin County Medical Center on Wednesday, to protest the elimination of General Assistance Medical Care.November 18, 2009
  • MnSCU reports surge in underrepresented students
    The Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system is reporting a surge in the sort of students who in the past often didn't attend college.November 18, 2009
  • Community revives ailing mobile home park
    A St. Cloud-area mobile home park is showing that it is possible to turn around a park for the better, but it requires the cooperation of concerned citizens and most importantly, the park owner.November 18, 2009
  • Body of duck hunter recovered near Rat Lake
    Becker County Sheriff's divers recovered the body of a 62-year-old duck hunter from Rat Lake on Tuesday afternoon.November 17, 2009
  • Missouri murder suspect arrested in Minneapolis
    Law enforcement officers from Minnesota and Missouri have arrested a man in Minneapolis who is wanted for murder in St. Louis.November 17, 2009
  • Petters, on witness stand, denies knowing of fraud
    A Minnesota businessman accused of orchestrating a massive Ponzi scheme testified Tuesday that he did not knowingly participate in the fraud and may have "trusted some people far too much."November 17, 2009
  • Judge drops case against family that denied chemo
    A Brown County judge has closed the case on a teenager whom the court forced to undergo chemotherapy against his family's wishes.November 17, 2009
  • Omar Jamal takes post with Somali Mission to UN
    Jamal was appointed about a week ago to the position of first secretary, according to Somalia's ambassador to the U.N. Jamal will represent Somali interests on various U.N. committees.November 17, 2009
  • St. Paul police investigate YouTube video of apparent assaults
    St. Paul police say they're investigating a series of apparent random assaults by a group of young men in the Twin Cities, videotaped and posted to YouTube.November 17, 2009
  • Former inmate's lawsuit: Ramsey County failed to treat TB
    A former inmate is suing Ramsey County and medical staff at the county's workhouse after he said his tuberculosis went untreated for 54 days while he served time there last year.November 17, 2009
  • Petters defense calls witnesses
    Defense today started telling its side in the fraud trial of Minnesota businessman Tom Petters. Petters is accused of leading a fraud scheme that cost investors about $3.5 billion.November 17, 2009
  • Rural mobile home park residents stuck in untenable homes
    For many residents in outstate Minnesota, manufactured home -- or trailer -- parks are affordable housing. But one such park in central Minnesota is described as an unfit place to live.November 17, 2009
  • The domestic scientific brain drain
    U.S. colleges are graduating as many scientists and engineers as ever, yet employers say they are facing a shortage. Midmorning looks into the motives behind their migration into other fields like finance and what incentives are necessary to keep scientists doing the work they were trained for.Midmorning, November 17, 2009
  • Man pleads guilty to Bois Forte tribal HQ arson
    A 20-year-old Nett Lake man admits he set fire to the Bois Forte Reservation Tribal Center in northern Minnesota over the summer.November 16, 2009

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