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• Oil patch city suspends strip club booze
  Williston, N.D., city commissioners have suspended the liquor licenses of the city's two strip clubs in response to what police say are excessive calls for disorderly behavior.April 24, 2013
• Social media's rush to judgment in Boston bombings
  Last week, the New York Post ran a front page photo of two teenage runners falsely implying that they had something to do with the Boston Marathon backpack bombs. But they came to the public's attention after their images were scooped up and pored over by hundreds of online amateur sleuths.April 24, 2013
• Disparity of deaths by firearms shaped by race
  Research shows dramatic differences in the role that guns play in the deaths of white and black Minnesotans. African-Americans are much more likely to be killed by firearms than whites are in Minnesota. At the same time, whites are more likely than African-Americans to use guns to commit suicide.April 24, 2013
• Map: Permit to carry firearms
  This maps shows counts by county of currently valid permits from applications received May 2003 to December 2012 and valid on or before December 2012. MPR News calculated the number of permits per 1,000 residents.April 24, 2013
• Q&A: Why the anti-bullying bill faces opposition
  The Safe and Supportive Minnesota Schools Act, A statewide anti-bullying bill, is awaiting a floor vote in the Minnesota House and moving its way through the Senate.April 24, 2013
• Justice: Armstrong was 'unjustly enriched'
  The Justice Department laid out its case in a lawsuit against Lance Armstrong on Tuesday, saying the cyclist violated his contract with the U.S. Postal Service and was "unjustly enriched" while cheating to win the Tour de France.April 23, 2013
• Man in ricin case: 'I love my country'
  A court filing says charges have been dropped against a Mississippi man accused of sending ricin-laced letters to President Barack Obama and others.April 23, 2013
• Man pleads guilty in mobility scooter death
  A Hibbing man has pleaded guilty in the traffic death of a 78-year-old man who was riding his mobility scooter on a road in northern Minnesota.April 23, 2013
• For African-Americans, gun statistics paint a bleak picture
  The mass shootings in Aurora, Colo., and especially Newtown, Conn., last year inspired new efforts toward gun control. In the ensuing debate about guns, questions of race have been a complicating factor.The Daily Circuit, April 23, 2013
• Michelle Alexander: 'The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness'
  Civil rights attorney Michelle Alexander, speaking at the University of St. Thomas April 10, 2013 about her book "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness." She says the imprisonment of poor and minority people is creating a new caste system in America and is turning back the clock on racial progress.Minnesota Public Radio News Presents, April 23, 2013
• ND high court hears decapitation case
  The North Dakota Supreme Court is considering the appeal of a man serving life in prison for shooting and beheading a North Dakota State University researcher.April 23, 2013
• Bill protecting older trafficked teens likely to pass, advocates say
  A bill awaiting final passage at the legislature would treat 16 and 17-year-olds who have been prostituted as victims rather than criminals.April 22, 2013
• How technology helped root out the Boston bombing suspects
  In a dramatic week in Boston after the bombings on April 15, the teenager known as Suspect No. 2 was captured on Friday evening with the aid of some advanced technology.April 22, 2013
• Boston Marathon bombing suspect charged
  The surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings has been charged with conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction against persons and property resulting in death. The charge carries a possible death sentence. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, made his initial court appearance in his hospital room in Boston today.April 22, 2013
• Manhunt ends in arrest of stabbing suspect
  Authorities allege a 27-year-old man stabbed his 26-year-old girlfriend several times before fleeing Saturday afternoon. The woman was initially unresponsive when police found her in a vehicle stalled near the police station.April 22, 2013

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