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• Feds cave on Plan-B emergency contraception age restrictions
  Backed into a legal corner, the Justice Department said Monday it would drop its appeal of a judge's ruling last April that it make the morning-after birth control pill available over the counter with no age restrictions.June 11, 2013
• Census: Smartphones bridging digital divide
  Smartphones appear to be increasing the rates in which blacks and Hispanics access the Internet, helping reduce disparities with whites and Asians, a government report said Monday.June 11, 2013
• Are you in an industry that will see the effects of the Affordable Care Act or MNSURE?
  Are you in an industry that will see the effects of the Affordable Care Act or MNSURE?June 11, 2013
• Health officials: More ticks bring greater Lyme-disease threat
  State health officials are expecting greater numbers of Lyme disease-carrying ticks this summer, after a lull last year.June 10, 2013
• Minn. farm water quality program launched
  Four Minnesota watersheds have been selected to test a voluntary pilot project that offers farmers incentives to reduce water pollution from their operations, federal and state officials announced Monday.June 10, 2013
• Obama administration wants to loosen antibiotic approvals
  The Obama administration hopes the change will increase options doctors can use against drug-resistant infections.The Daily Circuit, June 9, 2013
• Duluth council to vote on synthetics ordinances
  Ordinances would regulate businesses that sell synthetic drugs.The Daily Circuit, June 9, 2013
• After Sandy, a new threat: Soaring flood insurance
  After Superstorm Sandy, in the hardest-hit coastal stretches of New Jersey and New York, homeownersa re in limbo as they wait to see if tough new coastal rebuilding rules make it just too expensive to stay. In the federal government's newly released advisory flood maps, some homes in the most vulnerable area must be raised 14 feet on stilts at a cost of $150,000, or owners will face up to $30,000 a year in flood insurance premiums.June 9, 2013
• Vilsack, Dayton to christen state water quality project
  U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack will join Gov. Mark Dayton and members of Minnesota's congressional delegation in St. Paul on Monday to kick off a new project aimed at improving water quality.June 9, 2013
• Wis. population of bald eagles is on the rise
  Wisconsin's population of bald eagles is on the rise, with nesting pairs spotted in nearly every county in the state.June 8, 2013
• UND project scrubs CO2 from smokestacks
  Researchers at the University of North Dakota say they have developed a cheaper, more effective way to capture carbon dioxide from smokestacks.June 8, 2013
• Updraft: Partly soggy weekend
  What did we do wrong to earn this endless "Seattle spring" this year? Atmospheric payback for the warmest spring on record in 2012?June 7, 2013
• Cow in NW Minnesota dies of anthrax
  Minnesota has recorded its first case of anthrax in a cow since 2008.June 7, 2013
• Federal plan lifts most wolf protections
  The Obama administration on Friday proposed lifting most of the remaining federal protections for gray wolves across the Lower 48 states, a move that would end four decades of recovery efforts but has been criticized by some scientists as premature.June 7, 2013
• Costs uncertain for Xcel to meet new nuclear rule
  Xcel Energy said Friday it does not yet know how much it will cost to comply with new regulations issued by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission following the Fukushima nuclear accident.June 7, 2013

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