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News & Features Archive
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak was elected to a third term Tuesday night, winning 74 percent of the vote in an 11-candidate field.
(11/03/2009)
St. Paul mayor Chris Coleman won a second term in office Tuesday night, defeating challenger Eva Ng.
(11/03/2009)
Another Minnesota basketball recruit is in
trouble: Freshman forward Royce White faces misdemeanor charges of
theft and fifth-degree assault for allegedly shoplifting and
shoving a security guard at the Mall of America.
(11/03/2009)
The prosecution's star witness in the
fraud trial of Minnesota businessman Tom Petters admitted she stole
money from Petters and most of her work for him involved lying.
Police say three missing North Dakota
college softball players have been found dead in their Jeep, which
was pulled from a pond on a farm northwest of Dickinson.
It's been nearly seven years since
St. John's University student Josh Guimond disappeared after
leaving a small card party at about midnight.
A light rail route that bypasses uptown Minneapolis received approval Tuesday from the Hennepin County Regional Railroad Authority.
A sewage treatment plant in a small northern Minnesota town is failing and threatens to dump thousands of gallons of raw sewage into Lake of the Woods.
Minneapolis elections officials say the city's first election using instant runoff voting has gone smoothly, but voters may be limiting their own power because they're not using all their choices.
The Hennepin County medical examiner's office has released the name of the man who was shot by an off-duty police officer during a traffic stop in St. Louis Park Tuesday morning.
Getting a read on Bemidji's economy depends on where you look these days. You can find both ongoing struggle and boom times. It's a tale of two economies.
Anoka County authorities are identifying
the bicyclist who was struck and killed by a sport utility vehicle
while trying to cross County Road 10 in Blaine.
A construction worker from Ohio died after a fall at the site of a future Texas Roadhouse restaurant in Duluth, police said Tuesday.
Two Minnesota-based organizations have received federal grants to help beginning farmers and ranchers.
A 75-year-old man has died after he became trapped in a corn bin in southern Minnesota, authorities said.
Voter turnout is light and few problems are being reported today as Minneapolis uses instant runoff voting for the first time.
Deanna Coleman testified that by the middle of 2008, she no
longer believed Tom Petters' promises to find them a way out of what
prosecutors say was a Ponzi scheme, so she decided to reveal the scheme to federal investigators.
U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar is recommending that
a federal magistrate judge be named as the next U.S. District Court
judge in Minnesota.
A trio of star soloists brings out the passion and beauty in two Russian chamber works.
A pharmacy lab in Minnesota is helping address the shortage of H1N1 medicine for children, by making kid-sized doses of Tamiflu from adult-sized capsules. MPR's Lorna Benson visited the lab to see how it's done.
Credit card lenders have moved quickly to change the terms of their cards in advance of new federal regulations, and consumers are feeling the effects through higher interest rates and fees.
Nearly 30 years into their career together, the Johns of They Might Be Giants - Flansburgh and Linnell - have just released their 14th studio album, the entertaining and educational "Here Comes Science."
Continuing in their recent vein of children's music, the album touches on plenty of scientific topics, like paleontology, astronomy and chemistry.
A Minnesota congressman is concerned about reports that detainees at Guantanamo Bay will soon get the H1N1 flu vaccine.
The Austin fire chief accused of creating a
negative work environment says he plans to step down at the end of
the year.
On Nov. 4, 1979, U.S. Embassy charge d'affaires L. Bruce Laingen and 51 others were taken hostage in Tehran during the Iranian revolution, and held captive for 444 days. Now 87 and living in Virginia, Bruce Laingen joins Midday to discuss the situation then and now.
A northern Minnesota police department that had been looking forward to getting more than $40,000 for a motorized recliner has had to repost the item on eBay with bidding starting at $500.
A Minnesota state senator is being sworn
in as a new member of the President's Committee on the Arts and the
Humanities.
A 67-year-old woman was found dead in her home last night, and police are investigating her death as a homicide.
Leaders in Minnesota agriculture and agribusiness will make sustainability the focus of an annual meeting on Tuesday in Minneapolis.
A rare tiger cub born at the Sioux
Falls zoo now weighs 30 pounds and is starting to get acquainted
with other big cats.
Lawmakers are moving to ban the use of
computer laptops and other personal electronic devices in airline
cockpits to prevent another incident like the Northwest Airlines
plane that overshot Minneapolis by 150 miles.
More than 1,600 all-terrain vehicles that
lined up in Silver Bay, Minn., earlier this year set the official
world record for largest ATV parade.
The St. Paul school board plans to name semi-finalists in its search for a superintendent in the coming weeks, as well as host public meetings for those candidates and possibly name a preferred finalist by Thanksgiving.
The end of the Big Stone II power plant has electricity companies and environmental groups looking to the future.
In Albert Lea, the pain of the manufacturing slump is acute. That sector has lost nearly 43,000 jobs in Minnesota since the start of the recession -- more than any other major industry. With a heavy reliance on factory jobs, Albert Lea's jobless rate topped 11 percent earlier this year.
An online price war has broken out among the nation's three largest booksellers--Amazon, Target, and Wal-Mart--with all three selling selected bestsellers for around $9. The price cuts have publishers and bookstores concerned.
A year ago on Election Day, Minnesotans entered what would become the longest recount in state history. Today, election officials are applying lessons from that experience to ensure the process goes smoothly.
Scientist Tim Flannery talks about what new data says about the warming climate. He maintains there are practical ways to address climate change, despite the huge problem he sees looming. He talked with Kerri Miller before an audience at the UBS Forum at Minnesota Public Radio on October 19.
A journalist tracks the mind and motivation of a notorious book thief who regularly eludes capture, one of many thieves making rare books the art form most sought after by criminals.
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