News & Features Archive
Friday, May 25, 2012
Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett says Gov. Scott Walker purposefully divided Wisconsin with his collective bargaining proposal last year.
(05/25/2012)
Police want to review audio recordings of conversations between a Manson family member and his attorney as detectives search for information about unsolved killings.
(05/25/2012)
A 26-year-old student teacher at Simley High School in Inver Grove Heights has been charged after allegedly sending a naked picture of herself to a 17-year-old student.
(05/25/2012)
It's been two years since Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros put out their last album "Up From Below" and had the hit song of the year with "Home." Since that time, the collective has gained several new members, toured all over the world and now have a new album, "Here."
Wisconsin elections officials are reminding voters that posting photos of completed ballots on Facebook or Twitter is illegal, but high-ranking members of both political parties apparently missed the memo.
A better hiring outlook and lower gas prices pushed a measure of U.S. consumer confidence to its highest level in four and a half years.
More Americans will hit the road this holiday weekend than a year ago. And they'll have a bit more money to spend thanks to lower gas prices.
Short sales involve selling a home for less than is owed, and most people who have been through one probably would not describe it as a short process. But new federal guidelines could push banks to approve those sales faster.
MPR News' ATC Friday Festival is back with the Cannon River Rendezvous.
Just when you think you've got the Cube Critics, Stephanie Curtis the Movie Maven and arts reporter Euan Kerr figured out, they surprise you.
Minnesota native Tim O'Brien, speaking as part of the Club Book series about his acclaimed book about the Vietnam War and the impact it had on soldiers. It's titled, "The Things They Carried."
This weekend's Madison Marathon is being called off because of heat concerns.
A University of Minnesota Regents committee wants the university to discontinue special transitional leaves for administrators.
More Americans will hit the road this holiday weekend than a year ago. And they'll have a bit more money to spend thanks to lower gas prices.
The Minneapolis City Council has given final approval to a financing package that will build the Minnesota Vikings a new, taxpayer-subsidized, $1 billion stadium on the site of the Metrodome.
Just in time for Memorial Day, President Barack Obama has signed a law restoring paid leave time to Minnesota National Guard soldiers.
From Tough Mudders to traditional Norwegians, Minneapolis tornado survivors to fire dancers on the beach in Duluth, and friends and foes of a new Vikings stadium we were all over Minnesota for our photos of the week.
More than 100 gravestone vases stolen from Twin Cities cemeteries were found Thursday night in a riverfront park in Minneapolis.
Three TED speakers offer some big ideas for achieving happiness.
The legal tab for the Minnesota Senate over the firing of a high-ranking staffer is $46,150 and counting.
The $25 million Scheels Arena in Fargo is trying to work out a deal with creditors to reverse the facility's slide toward insolvency.
The privately bankrolled Dragon capsule arrived at the International Space Station on Friday, making history as the first commercial delivery truck in orbit.
A second federal judge in California has struck down a law denying benefits to partners in a gay marriage.
Thousands of high school students from more than 200 schools across Minnesota, neighboring states and Canada made Valleyfair Amusement Park in Shakopee their classroom this week. It's a yearly tradition known as Physics Day and this year marked the 25th year the amusement park hosted it.
Given the forecast, today is the perfect day to get your lawn mowed. That doesn't mean it's going to happen. Parents and teenagers across the state will battle over the urgency of this chore. Minnesota Public Radio essayist Peter Smith has captured the essence of this eternal struggle in a poem.
University of Minnesota meteorologist and climatologist Mark Seeley discusses the wet and windy May and looks ahead to the Memorial Day weekend forecast.
A day after they narrowly signalled preliminary approval of the financing plan for a new Minnesota Vikings stadium, the Minneapolis City Council will take a final vote on the same measure today.
Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty is being mentioned as a possible running mate for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romeny, even though Pawlenty said recently that he wasn't interested. MPR's Cathy Wuzer talked with former Republican Congressman Vin Weber, a Pawlenty supporter, about the process.
Gov. Scott Walker and Democratic Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett are scheduled to meet for the first of two live debates in advance of the June 5 recall election.
A few months ago, university students struck a chord and packed in the crowds with "The War Within," a dark farce of loosely connected sketches of commentary on absurdities in life and the workplace. The play is now reworked as a tour through the endless war of daily existence.
President Barack Obama delivered his harshest rebuttal yet to rival Mitt Romney, dismissing his challenger's claims as "a cowpie of distortions" as he sought to rekindle the all-but-faded Iowa magic that launched him in 2008.
Brainerd officials say an unconventional source of energy to heat holds huge energy potential for heating and cooling buildings, likely starting with the city police station and a school building.
The 18-month-old girl was taken to Regions Hospital. Her condition is not known.
Paul Konerko and Alex Rios hit back-to-back homers and Alejandro De Aza added a grand slam to cap a six-run sixth inning, leading the Chicago White Sox to an 11-8 victory over the Minnesota Twins on Thursday night.
The world's first private supply ship flew tantalizingly close to the International Space Station, acing a critical test in advance of the actual docking.
A month after a top Minnesota lawmaker belittled the North Dakota Capitol, one of his fellow GOP House members proclaimed it an "amazing structure" on Thursday after getting a personal tour from Gov. Jack Dalrymple.
The divisive battle to recall Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker moves into its final phase in coming days with debates, a continuing flood of out-of-state ad money, and polls that suggest the incumbent is poised to fend off Democratic challenger Tom Barrett.
The Minnesota State Patrol is investigating a fiery crash that claimed the life of one man near Winona.
A fire last fall destroyed a small town's pharmacy. The trend toward big retailers and mail-order drugs is making it difficult to replace.
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