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• Teen who drowned in Plymouth pool ID'd
  The sheriff's office was called around 7 p.m. Friday. A family member pulled the unresponsive boy from the pool.April 26, 2014
• Photo gallery: Pouring molten iron into art
  When you handle molten iron in a blazing furnace nearing 2,500 degrees, "you have to kind of know what you are doing." Wayne Potratz made that point clear as he and his students Friday transformed liquid metal into art at the University of Minnesota's foundry. It was the art department's 45th Annual Iron Pour, an event that turns the foundry into a friendly, Hades kind of a place.April 25, 2014
• Poll: Minnesotans not in a bragging mood
  People here don't know how good they've got it. That much seems clear by virtue of a new Gallup poll that shows only 61 percent of the people surveyed here think Minnesota is "one of the best possible states to live."April 25, 2014
• Robots rumble this weekend at Mall of America
  Sixteen teams, made up of about six to eight students each, will come from schools across the Midwest and Minnesota including Duluth, Proctor, Minnetrista, and North St. Paul.April 25, 2014
• 'Model' student expelled for bringing knife to school
  The Austin Daily Herald says Alyssa Drescher was expelled for the rest of the year after a drug-sniffing dog focused on her locker at United South Central High School. Apparently, the dog was thrown off by perfume coming from her locker.April 25, 2014
• Falling crucifix kills man
  The giant crucifix was dedicated to the late Pope John Paul II in Italy. It collapsed only a few days before his canonization.April 25, 2014
• A Holocaust survivor recalls his escape from Nazi Germany
  This Sunday starts Yom HaShoah, the Jewish memorial day for the estimated six million Jews killed in the Holocaust. Black and thousands of others are also marking the 75th anniversary of their escape from that tragedy.April 24, 2014
• Loud and proud, I guess: Mayor tells Minneapolis to drop the modesty
  While much of Hodge's State of the City speech touched on the themes at the center of her successful campaign for the job -- growth, equality and competent management, she also encouraged Minneapolis residents to brag about the place they live.April 24, 2014
• Should Minneapolis rename Columbus Day as Indigenous Peoples' Day?
  On Friday, the City Council will consider a resolution that would re-designate Columbus Day as Indigenous People's Day. It would follow in the steps of cities like Berkeley, Calif. and states like South Dakota, which made the change more than two decades ago.April 24, 2014
• Columbus Day may get renamed in Minneapolis: Indigenous Peoples' Day
  The American Indian Movement emerged in the 1960s from the streets of south Minneapolis, a longtime cultural crossroads for American Indian communities in the Midwest. And the burst of activism that followed has focused on all sorts of issues from treaty rights to sports mascots. But the celebration of Columbus Day still rankles Bill Means.April 24, 2014
• Duluth's roads need work, but city needs money first
  Duluth drivers wait for the city's decision on how to plug a four-year budget hole that's tearing up the streets.April 23, 2014
• Mpls. pedestrian hit by bus reported conscious
  The bus also struck a traffic pole and a some of the passengers on the bus reported minor injuries from the bus's sudden stop. The bus driver was also taken to HCMC for a medical evaluation and routine drug and alcohol testing.April 23, 2014
• Teen stowaway blows holes in vast airport security
  A 15-year-old apparently wanted nothing more than to run away. But his success in slipping past layers of security early Sunday morning at San Jose International Airport made it clear that a determined person can still get into a supposedly safe area and sneak onto a plane.April 22, 2014
• Boy Scouts v. church over gay scoutmaster
  There's a new battle front over the Boy Scouts' policy of not allowing gay men to be involved. Churches often sponsor Boy Scout troops and provide financial support as well as a physical location. A church in Washington that hosts a troop has a no-discrimination policy.April 21, 2014
• Teen survives Hawaii flight in jet wheel well
  Newspaper reports say the unidentified teen survived the trip "halfway across the Pacific Ocean unharmed despite frigid temperatures at 38,000 feet and a lack of oxygen, FBI and airline officials said."April 21, 2014

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