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News & Features Archive
Monday, November 9, 2009
Before the latest round of bank failures, Minnesota had not had a state bank failure since 2000. However, experts say most of the state's banks are weathering the economic stresses and are actually in pretty good shape.
(11/09/2009)
Sen. Amy Klobuchar says she hopes the Senate will reduce the proposed $40 billion tax on medical device manufacturers, as health care reform legislation makes its way through the Senate.
(11/09/2009)
Police have charged a north Minneapolis woman with animal cruelty after an investigation last month.
(11/09/2009)
The city of St. Paul has received $1 million in federal money to investigate possible cleanup sites along the proposed Central Corridor light-rail transit line.
For Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, it's
goodbye farm fields, hello palm trees.
John Irving, author of "the World According to Garp" and many other novels, talks about why terrible things happen to his characters.
Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson on Monday defended the state's law against so-called robocalls after an Iowa-based political group complained to the Federal Election Commission that the ban isn't allowed by federal election law.
Children of famous parents sometimes have a hard time adjusting to life in their parents' shadow. Not so for Rosanne Cash, the daughter of the late Johnny Cash. Throughout her thirty-year career, Cash has been a vibrant and engaging force in the country music world.
Red Wing is home to one of the most comprehensive violin repair programs in the country and for nearly two decades, the courses have attracted hundreds of students from around the world who want to learn the delicate craft and preserve the violin's cultural and musical heritage.
A 15-year-old St. Paul boy has died after drinking alcohol at a party, police said.
One of the largest immigration crackdowns under the Obama administration to date took place in the Twin Cities last month, when 1,200 undocumented janitors were fired from their jobs, according to immigration lawyers.
Gubernatorial candidates representing four political parties are expected at a nonpartisan forum Monday night at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter.
About a million Maclaren strollers sold by
Target and Babies "R" Us are being recalled after 12 reports of
children having their fingertips amputated by a hinge mechanism.
The Star Tribune newspaper in Minneapolis is cutting another 100 jobs companywide, the newspaper reported Monday.
The Mankato School District has reached a
financial settlement with the mother of a girl who was injured
while playing kickball during summer school.
A disbarred lawyer who was in the federal
witness protection program is testifying for the prosecution in the
Tom Petters fraud trial.
One of the Minnesota soldiers wounded in the shooting rampage at Fort Hood will soon be back training to go to Iraq.
Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Professor Nick Hayes joins Midday to look back at the events of Nov. 9, 1989. Hayes teaches history and holds the University Chair in Critical Thinking at Saint John's University in Collegeville.
Today marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, a physical and symbolic barrier between East and West. Professor Nick Hayes joins Midday to look back at the events of Nov. 9, 1989. Hayes teaches history and holds the University Chair in Critical Thinking at Saint John's University in Collegeville.
A new survey from the Pew Research Center looks at attitudes in Germany and Eastern Europe, twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and former Republican Congressman Vin Weber discuss the results at a Pew Research Center event.
Transportation officials are warning of major delays after two semis rolled over in a crash involving multiple vehicles on Highway 14 in southeastern Minnesota.
Barely a year into his first term, Gov.
Tim Pawlenty set out to end long-term homelessness in Minnesota by
2010, an audacious-sounding goal that he insisted was "very real
and attainable."
Multigenerational living was once commonplace in American culture. Today it's making a comeback -- thanks to the economic recession.
A senior Iranian prosecutor accused three
Americans detained on the border with Iraq of espionage on Monday,
the first signal that Tehran intends to put them on trial.
Chancellor Angela Merkel thanked former Soviet
leader Mikhail Gorbachev for making change possible in East Germany as she visited what was once a fortified border crossing on Monday - retracing her steps on the night 20 years ago the Berlin Wall
fell.
The State Patrol says a man and a
young child were killed and two others were injured in a head-on
crash on Interstate 35 in Forest Lake Sunday.
The Minnesota Home Ownership Center is hosting a summit Monday, Nov. 9 on how to close the gap between white and minority homeowners in the state.
Monday, Nov. 9 marks the seventh anniversary of the disappearance of Josh Guimond, a St. John's University student from Maple Lake.
The race to vaccinate humans against H1N1 is the principal focus of health leaders, but a second vaccination effort is about to begin.
The University of Minnesota Extension
Service reports that an increasing number of farmers and lenders
are using mediation to resolve farm debt issues.
A Le Sueur County sheriff's deputy won't
be charged in the July shooting death of an unarmed Kasota man, a
grand jury decided.
A Minnetonka man is dead after
accidentally shooting himself in the chest during Minnesota's deer
opener weekend.
Signs of the housing crisis are everywhere, with vacant foreclosed homes and for sale signs in almost every neighborhood, but another sign of the recession is less visible-adult children moving into their parents homes to save money.
The novels of John Irving have introduced readers to memorable figures like T.S. Garp and Owen Meany, characters whose lives are filled with lunacy and sorrow. His new book focuses on a novelist with a career very similar to his own.
Kerri Miller speaks with three reporters covering national security and intelligence about covert operations in Afghanistan, the challenges of covering the CIA, and who they write for. Recorded at the UBS Forum on Thursday, November 5.
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