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• Reenactors turn back the centuries in Minn.
  At the Big Island Rendezvous & Festival, the participants know each other as fur traders, canoeman and beadworkers, but in their day-to-day lives they often work regular jobs.October 11, 2009
• Minnesota couple nurtures endangered farm animals
  Our quest to protect endangered animals can take us to some very wild places. In this case it leads to a place very tame: A small farm in Lac qui Parle County.October 10, 2009
• Cold Weather Rule starts next week in Minn.
  Minnesotans struggling to pay energy bills will be protected from service disconnection starting next Thursday, under the state's Cold Weather Rule.October 8, 2009
• Univ. of Minn. celebrates Borlaug's legacy
  The University of Minnesota is celebrating the legacy of Nobel Peace Prize winner Norman Borlaug today.October 8, 2009
• Al Capone's Wisconsin hideout sells for $2.6 million
  Chicago mobster Al Capone's former hideout in northern Wisconsin, complete with guard towers and a stone house with 18-inch-thick walls, was sold for $2.6 million Thursday to the bank that foreclosed on it.October 8, 2009
• Vet students hope to prevent Whiskers from going hungry
  Even in a struggling economy, Rover and Whiskers still need to eat. Some veterinary students at the University of Minnesota have launched an effort to keep pets from going hungry by holding a pet food drive this week.October 7, 2009
• Twin Cities attorney is a Coen brothers punch line
  When the new Coen brothers movie "A Serious Man" is shown in the Twin Cities, the line that gets the biggest audience reaction is an inside joke. It comes when a character needs a criminal defense attorney and he is advised to "hire Ron Meshbesher." MPR's Cathy Wurzer talks with the real-life Ron Meshbesher.October 7, 2009
• In Rochester, once nameless graves now marked
  Another 125 markers have been placed at the old Rochester State Hospital cemetery, putting names on graves that had been marked only with numbers.October 7, 2009
• Local health provider launches innovative care program
  Fairview Health Services is rolling out an experimental new way of delivering health care, to cut costs and improve the quality of patient care. The new system puts more responsibility in the hands of patients and medical staff.Midmorning, October 7, 2009
• Novelist spans life in Alaska and Minneapolis
  Mattox Roesch wrote a novel about life in his wife's home village in rural Alaska while living in Minneapolis. He hopes to put a face on the statistics about troubled youngsters.October 6, 2009
• Rosemary Williams taking foreclosure fight to D.C.
  Rosemary Williams, the Minneapolis woman whose public fight to save her foreclosed home ended last month, will travel to Washington, D.C. today to protest evictions.October 4, 2009
• Historic Grain Belt Beer sign up for sale
  The historic Grain Belt beer sign may once again shine across the Mississippi River.October 2, 2009
• Minnesota Twins leave the Metrodome behind
  Unless they catch the Detroit Tigers in the standings, this weekend will be last time the Minnesota Twins play baseball in the Metrodome, their home since 1982. Midday looks at the history, and the future, of the Metrodome.Midday, October 2, 2009
• Letterman reveals affair, blackmail plot during monologue
  A CBS News employee is accused of trying to extort $2 million from David Letterman, forcing the late-night host to admit in an extraordinary monologue before millions of viewers that he had sexual relationships with female employees.October 2, 2009
• Wetterling to mark 20th anniversary of son's abduction
  It will soon be 20 years since 11-year-old Jacob Wetterling was kidnapped by a stranger just a half-mile from his home in St. Joseph.October 2, 2009

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