News & Features Archive
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
LeRoy Neiman, the painter and sketch artist best known for evoking the kinetic energy of the world's biggest sporting and leisure events with bright quick strokes, died Wednesday at age 91.
(06/20/2012)
Four years ago, immigration authorities raided a kosher slaughterhouse in Postville, Iowa. It was one of the largest single roundups in U.S. history, resulting in the arrest of nearly 400 undocumented workers. That event is the focus of a new play.
(06/20/2012)
Minnesota for Marriage, the primary group backing a state constitutional amendment that would define marriage as between a man and a woman, has raised roughly $588,000 so far this year, according to a new finance report.
(06/20/2012)
A House committee has voted to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress for failing to turn over Justice Department documents in an investigation of a flawed gun-smuggling probe in Arizona. The party-line vote was 23-17.
A Monday evening hail storm caused widespread crop damage in southern Minnesota.
Two seals escaped from the Lake Superior Zoo in Duluth early this morning and 11 barnyard animals drowned after heavy rains flooded the facility and surrounding areas.
A Danish study suggest that light and moderate drinking during pregnancy may not be hazardous for the fetus. But the researchers advise that to be absolutely safe, women should refrain from drinking while pregnant.
The Federal Reserve is ready to take further action - including the purchase of Treasury bonds - "to provide support for the economy," the Chairman of the Fed Ben Bernanke said during a press conference.
Flash floods, sinkholes that swallow cars and more rain on the way. Duluth this morning is struggling with flooding unseen in decades.
Map of flooding in Duluth and surrounding communities
Daybreak gives people a chance to investigate the damage and get ready for the next round of heavy rain.
The company that converted a southwest Minnesota ethanol plant to production of a corn-derived industrial chemical has won an early victory in a court fight with a competitor.
With taxpayers already out nearly $85,000, Minnesota senators voiced concern Wednesday about fast-growing legal bills connected to a sex scandal that toppled the GOP's majority leader and a powerful aide.
Flash floods, sink holes that swallow cars and more rain on the way. Duluth this morning is struggling with flooding unseen in decades.
The head of the Drug Enforcement Administration says drug agents accused of misconduct in the wake of a Secret Service prostitution scandal in Colombia have been recalled from the South American country.
Poor judgment and poor oversight led to the teaching of anti-Islamic material at a military school for officers, according to a Pentagon report Wednesday.
Major flooding in northeastern Minnesota has closed roads, Duluth City Hall and the University of Minnesota campus, and has authorities recommending emergency travel only.
Major flooding in northeastern Minnesota has closed roads, Duluth City Hall and the University of Minnesota campus, and has authorities recommending emergency travel only.
Two seals escaped from the Lake Superior Zoo in Duluth early this morning after heavy rains flooded the facility and surrounding areas. The zoo's polar bear, Berlin, also escaped from her exhibit area, but was returned.
Major flooding in northeastern Minnesota has closed roads, Duluth City Hall and the University of Minnesota campus, and has authorities recommending emergency travel only.
Minnesota is getting a big dose of advertising tied to the presidential race with a conservative group's new spot criticizing the Affordable Care Act signed into law my President Barack Obama.
This is our fifth report following St. Thomas professor Bruce Kramer as he copes with life after being diagnosed with ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease.
The head of the largest group representing Native Americans and Alaska Natives said federal and state governments should provide voter registration at Indian Health Service facilities.
To those whose ancestral homes were in Palestine, the dispute is not about religion. It's about property.
Days after the Legislature approved $4 million for the Minnesota Zoo, it was announced that the popular dolphin exhibit would come to an end. Some legislators say they would have reconsidered their vote had they known the dolphins were leaving the zoo for good.
According to documents obtained through the state Data Practices Act, zoo officials started discussing the future of the dolphin exhibit in February -- a full month before the House and Senate released their bonding bills.
Fed up with loud parties and transient populations that student rentals bring to their St. Paul neighborhood, some homeowners are asking the city council to restrict new student rental housing in the area surrounding the University of St. Thomas. Critics of the proposed restrictions say they will simply create problems for other parts of the city.
Now the likely Republican presidential nominee, Mitt Romney was back home in Michigan on Tuesday — where, he says, the "trees are the right height."
The Senate plowed through 73 amendments to a $500 billion bill that will set farm policy and fund the food stamp program over the next five years.
Legislators made a last-ditch effort to revive a stalled bill to overhaul federal transportation programs -- Congress' best bet for passage of a major jobs bill this year - but prospects for approval before the November elections are chancy at best.
An American RadioWorks documentary looking at the legacy of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal programs. The structures that New Deal agencies built transformed America.
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