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• 1st Superman comic found in MN house wall
  It's considered the Holy Grail of comic books: Action Comics No. 1 from 1938, featuring the debut of Superman. And David Gonzales found one mixed in with old newspapers insulating a wall in a house he was renovating in a small town in Minnesota.May 24, 2013
• ND church refuses to marry disabled couple
  A disabled Bismarck-Mandan couple is being refused marriage by the man's church because the pastor there says the couple isn't ready.May 24, 2013
• Ahead of Memorial Day, share a story about someone who served
  This picture from Newsweek, of the family of one of the first soldiers killed in the first Gulf War, is tattered because it's been folded up and put in and taken out of a wallet occasionally for the last 18 years. There's a story behind it. Do you have a story about someone who served? Click on the headline and tell us.May 24, 2013
• MPR News photos of the week: Paddling, Italian pastry and a fatal rockslide
  The ice is finally out across the state and Minnesotans were ready to take advantage, Cossetta's opened a new expansion and family and friends grieved after a fatal accident in St. Paul. All that and more in our photos of the week.May 24, 2013
• It's cabin-opening season for some Minnesotans
  Memorial Day weekend is upon us and many Minnesotans are heading north on clogged highways to summer cabins. With the long winter and late ice-out on many lakes, for some this could be the first visit since last fall. One family opened up the cabin that's provided a summer retreat to four generations.May 24, 2013
• Photos: Family cabin getaway for four generations
  Memorial Day weekend upon us and many Minnesotans are heading north on clogged highways to summer cabins. With the long winter and late ice-out on many lakes, for some this could be the first visit since last fall. One family opened up the cabin that's provided a summer retreat to four generations.May 24, 2013
• Family fought to keep rustic wilderness
  As it turned out, a blind man can stop a bulldozer. Bill Muir did it.May 24, 2013
• Community mourns boys killed in mudslide
  Families and community continue to mourn the deaths of two boys killed in a St. Paul park mudslide earlier this week. Gov. Mark Dayton is expected to attend a memorial at Peter Hobart Elementary School on Friday for the victims, Mohamed Fofana and Haysem Sani.May 24, 2013
• St. Louis County jail open for filmmakers
  The owner of the former St. Louis County jail has a new idea for repurposing the building that's been vacant for 18 years: allow artists to use it for film shoots.May 23, 2013
• Metro Miss. River locks closed to rec boats
  The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has closed three Mississippi River locks in the Twin Cities to recreational boats because of high water.May 23, 2013
• Hobby Lobby birth control coverage up for federal appeal
  In the most prominent challenge of its kind, Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. is asking a federal appeals court Thursday for an exemption from part of the federal health care law that requires it to offer employees health coverage that includes access to the morning-after pill.May 23, 2013
• North Minneapolis still recovering two years after tornado
  It's been two years since a tornado hit the north side of Minneapolis, killing two people and causing hundreds of millions of dollars in damage to homes, businesses and infrastructure.May 22, 2013
• To forgive may not be so divine, after all
  A professor offers an unrepentant defense of the held grudge.The Daily Circuit, May 22, 2013
• Q&A: The Heavy Table tries to kickstart a regional food book
  The HeavyTable.com is using crowdfunding site Kickstarter to try to fund a new book focused on Upper Midwestern food.May 22, 2013
• Appetites: Inside the newly expanded Cossetta's
  Cossetta's has long been one of the biggest names in Italian food in the Twin Cities, and it has just gotten a lot bigger. The new pastry shop is the new crown jewel of the expansion, says the Heavy Table's James Norton.May 22, 2013

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