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• Now OK on airline flights: Small knives, baseball bats
  Flyers reacted with shrugs but largely agreed with a new policy announced by the Transportation Security Administration that airline passengers will be able to carry small knives and previously forbidden sports equipment on planes.March 6, 2013
• Youth hockey officials evaluate new safety rules
  As the boys' high school hockey tournament gets underway today, Minnesota hockey officials are evaluating whether new safety rules have been effective.March 6, 2013
• Minn. Stars soccer now Minn. United FC
  Minnesota's only professional soccer team, the minor league Minnesota Stars, are getting a new name.March 5, 2013
• Cardinals at odds over when to begin choosing next pope
  Some want the conclave to start as soon as possible; others want time to get to know each other.March 4, 2013
• Opat: No Vikings funds from Twins surplus
  The shortfall in electronic pulltab gambling revenues to pay for a Viking stadium has some state officials already looking for a way to close the financial gap.March 4, 2013
• Bill would shield Minn. coaches from parent gripes
  Minnesota high school coaches could soon have a bit more job protection. A bill now before the Legislature would add a sentence to the existing Minnesota law that governs the rights of coaches to contest their dismissals. It says that parent complaints can't be the sole reason for letting a coach go.March 2, 2013
• Living with ALS, Part XI: Bruce Kramer contemplates faith
  Today is Bruce Kramer's birthday. And for some like him, with a terminal illness, birthdays can take on special meanings: Tangible evidence that they are still here, yet also milestones on a dwindling journey. For Kramer, that journey is spiritual.March 1, 2013
• Report: Amtrak ridership at all-time high
  A new report finds Amtrak ridership at an all-time high in the Twin Cities and other metro areas. The report from the Washington-based Brookings Institution looked at ridership levels for the national railroad in the largest 100 metro areas between 1997 to 2012.March 1, 2013
• If we value diversity, why do we work so hard to avoid it?
  We tend to roost with those who think as we do.February 28, 2013
• Mining firm vetoes Hwy 53 reroute plan
  A veto by a taconite mining company has taken a popular plan to reroute a major northern Minnesota highway off the table.February 28, 2013
• Benedict becomes 1st pope in 600 years to resign
  Benedict XVI become the first pope in 600 years to resign Thursday, ending an eight-year pontificate shaped by struggles to move the church past sex abuse scandals and to reawaken Christianity in an indifferent world.February 28, 2013
• The shy kid who stands up to protect a mom who seems different
  "He says to the world, You wanna stare? Fine. But you'll be staring on my terms."February 28, 2013
• Tweets, pics give real-time peek into North Korea
  "Hello world from comms center in #Pyongyang." Pretty ordinary stuff in the world of social media, but revolutionary for North Korea.February 27, 2013
• Pope recalls 'joy,' difficulties in final audience
  Pope Benedict XVI bid an emotional farewell Wednesday on the eve of his retirement, recalling moments of "joy and light" during his papacy, but also times of difficulty when "it seemed like the Lord was sleeping."February 27, 2013
• Gunfire, chants mark Wounded Knee anniversary
  A Pine Ridge Indian Reservation resident who found herself in the middle of the 1973 Wounded Knee occupation said Wednesday amid ceremonial gunfire and chants that little has changed since the fatal standoff.February 27, 2013

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