New book gathers stories of young Minnesota immigrants "Green Card Youth Voices: Immigration Stories from a Minneapolis High School" is made up of essays from 30 students of Minneapolis' Wellstone International High School.June 29, 2016
Future uncertain, residents file lawsuit to keep mobile home park open Residents of Lowry Grove thought they had saved the mobile home park from being sold to a company that wanted to close it, but the deal went through anyway. Now, they've filed suit claiming the sale was illegal.June 28, 2016
Photos: He ditched med school, became organic farming pioneer Forty years ago, Steven Schwenn was a third-year medical student at Mayo Medical School in Rochester when he felt a different calling. It was spring planting season, and Schwenn bought 14 acres of land and began organic gardening.June 27, 2016
Personality tests are popular, but do they capture the real you? It can be a lot of fun taking those back-of-the-magazine personality tests. But tests may be less fun when they are used by employers to make big life decisions on hiring and job performance.June 26, 2016
Skol! Weekend warriors swing the steel, Viking style The History Channel has made Vikings cool and stoked interest in Viking-age reenactments. That includes reliving the hand-to-hand combat that made the Norsemen feared. Some would-be Vikings will battle Saturday in Moorhead.June 24, 2016
Bernie Worrell, 'Wizard Of Woo,' dies at 72 The influential keyboardist and composer had been diagnosed with late-stage lung cancer. Worrell was a key member of Parliament-Funkadelic and played with the Talking Heads.June 24, 2016
Obama names LGBT landmark as national monument The Stonewall National Monument in New York City will be the first addition to the national park system specifically highlighting the history of the LGBT community.June 24, 2016
Wife of nation's lowest-paid governor takes waitressing gig Ann LePage had kept quiet about the gig, but her husband told a crowd at a recent town hall that his wife took a job to "supplement" his lowest-in-the-nation $70,000 salary.June 24, 2016