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• US schools add Vietnamese to dual immersion
  The move to expand the use of Vietnamese in so-called dual immersion programs comes as the children of refugees who fled the aftermath of the Vietnam War are coming of age and striving to preserve the language for their American children.March 22, 2014
• Warner Road closed this weekend
  The Minnesota Department of Transportation is closing a major road in St. Paul this weekend.March 22, 2014
• Judge won't dismiss Ventura defamation suit
  A judge is allowing former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura's defamation lawsuit against the widow of slain "American Sniper" author Chris Kyle to go to trial.March 19, 2014
• Minnesota food culture well represented among James Beard nominees
  The James Beard Awards annually recognize the best in food — from restaurants to cookbooks to writing and programming — across North America.March 18, 2014
• GM recall: Sealed settlements and public safety
  General Motors settled cases as far back as 2005 on malfunctioning vehicles. But those settlements were secret at the demand of the company, and secrecy in personal injury cases is all too common.The Daily Circuit, March 18, 2014
• The dark history of green food on St. Patrick's Day
  Cupcakes, cookies and beer dyed green may mean party time in America, but on the Emerald Isle, they hearken back to a desperate past. Still, Ireland has learned to embrace the kitsch for tourists.March 17, 2014
• Warming prompts closure of Lake Superior ice caves
  Park service spokeswoman Julie Van Stappen says 138,000 people visited the caves this winter. That figure dwarfs the 12,700 people who visited in 2009, the last time the lake froze enough to make the caves reachable by foot.March 17, 2014
• Photos: St. Patrick's Day in St. Paul
  Revelers celebrated everything Irish in downtown St. Paul Monday during the 48th Annual St. Patrick's Day Parade.March 17, 2014
• Help for WWII vet tossed out of his dilapidated home
  No matter what happens next, Jerold Young isn't going to have a lot of money to live out his remaining years, but his Rochester, Minn., friends are certainly looking out for the World War II vet who's had some tough times.March 17, 2014
• At state HS hoops tourney, losing isn't fun
  When a few Hopkins kids covered their faces with their jerseys when it was over, when they accepted the second-place trophy and regarded it like the bag of litter at the end of lunch at a fast-food joint, it was understandable. No sportswriters or commenters called them bad sportsmen -- unlike what happened when the US women's hokcey team lost.March 17, 2014
• How 26 nations are helping to find that missing Malaysian jet
  Malaysia, which is coordinating the search, has deployed about 18 aircraft and 27 ships, including the submarine support vessel MV Mega Bakti, which can detect objects at a depth of up to 1,000 meters (3,280 feet).March 17, 2014
• Westboro Baptist founder is 'on the edge of death,' son says
  Rev. Fred Phelps Sr., founder of the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan., that became famous for its controversial protests at funerals, is ill and in hospice care, family members and church officials confirmed today.March 16, 2014
• Video: Island Station demolished
  Island Station, an old coal-fired power plant on the Mississippi River, was imploded Sunday in St. Paul.March 16, 2014
• '12 Years A Slave' author's death still a mystery
  What historians don't know about the author of "12 Years A Slave" is when and how he died and where he is buried. It's a lingering mystery in the final chapter of the life of the 19th-century free-born African-American whose compelling account of enforced slavery in pre-Civil War Louisiana was made into the Oscar-winning film of the same title.March 16, 2014
• Minnesota man seeks son's return from Ukraine
  A Maple Grove man is at the center of an international custody battle that's left his 4-year-old son in an unsettled place -- Ukraine.March 15, 2014

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