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• Rick Warren: Son used unregistered gun in suicide
  Pastor Rick Warren has tweeted that his son killed himself with an unregistered gun purchased through the Internet.April 11, 2013
• News Cut: Meet the family that brought gymnastics to Hendricks
  Stop me if you've heard this before. A farm couple builds a sports complex in the belief that people will come. And they do. In Hendricks, MN., however, it's not baseball and corn. It's a farm shed and gymnastics that's gotten people to sit up and take notice.April 11, 2013
• Spring means lambing season in Minnesota
  Spring brings new life to the landscape. The birth of a new crop of lambs is a yearly ritual at this small Minnesota farm.April 10, 2013
• Top Minn. baby names in 2011: Mason, Olivia
  The Social Security Administration released its updated list of top baby names today to reflect the most recent data from babies born in 2011. Olivia and Mason topped the list of Minnesota baby names.April 10, 2013
• Photos: Birthing season on Ellison sheep farm
  Minnesota has 3,000 sheep farms and more than 130,000 sheep according to the state Board of Animal Health.April 10, 2013
• Fridley teacher honored for education effort on Holocaust
  Anneke Branderhorst, who teaches a course about the holocaust at Calvin Christian High School in Fridley, will receive the Jewish Community Relations Council's Courage to Teach Award for her effort.April 8, 2013
• Mouseketeer Annette Funicello dies
  Annette Funicello, the most popular Mouseketeer on "The Mickey Mouse Club," who matured to a successful career in records and '60s beach party movies but struggled with illness in middle age and after, died Monday, The Walt Disney Co. said. She was 70.April 8, 2013
• Online translation on the rise, changing lives
  Google is now doing a record billion translations on any given day, as much text as you'd find in 1 million books for everything from understanding school lunch menus to gathering national security intelligence. It translates in 65 languages, from Afrikaans to Yiddish, and can be used on websites, with speech recognition and as an app on mobile phones even if there is no connection.April 6, 2013
• Minn. Justice Alan Page's foundation celebrates 25th year
  Minnesota Supreme Court Justice Alan Page's foundation has supported the work of more than 5,000 scholars of all academic levels.April 5, 2013
• News Cut: Weekly Quiz
  Here are 10 questions based on news events this week. Let's see how well you've paid attention.April 5, 2013
• Sun-Times: Famed movie critic Roger Ebert dies
  Roger Ebert, the most famous and most popular film reviewer of his time who became the first journalist to win a Pulitzer Prize for movie criticism and, on his long-running TV program, wielded the nation's most influential thumb, died Thursday. He was 70.April 4, 2013
• John Robison's story about autism and 'Raising Cubby'
  The best-selling author of "Be Different" and "Look Me in the Eye," John Robison had autism in the 1960s when there was no diagnosis or awareness. He told the Minneapolis audience at "Talk of the Stacks" that he felt like a misfit and a second-class human as a kid, but as an adult learned to accommodate his unusual brain. "Raising Cubby" is about his profound and sometimes hilarious experiences as a father.Minnesota Public Radio News Presents, April 3, 2013
• Sequester cuts force St. Cloud to ax air show
  Signs of the sequestration are starting to show up around the state. Organizers on Tuesday canceled the St. Cloud Air Show because the Blue Angels, the Navy's flight demonstration squad that was scheduled to perform at the air show, do not know if they will be able to fly this summer.April 2, 2013
• In Big Stone County, a mission to feed his community
  For many people, Clinton, Minn., is the two-block long town on U.S. 75 that signals you're only 15 minutes away from the happenings in Ortonville. But Clinton has an idea percolating, thanks to Brent Olson, who recently reopened the town cafe.April 2, 2013
• As Facebook matures, is it losing its edge?
  Has Facebook all become too much of a chore? Are the important life events of your closest loved ones drowning in a sea of jokes?April 2, 2013

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