Topics

People & Places

• Food pantries on the rise at US college campuses
  At Stony Brook, where the average cost for an undergraduate residential student -- tuition, fees, room and board -- is $19,358 a year, officials opened the food pantry last year after learning that students had started a website sharing information about campus events where free food was being offered.March 15, 2014
• Red Wing Pottery reopens for business
  Red Wing Pottery is open again for business this weekend after a few months of renovations and re-branding.March 15, 2014
• Man widely known as the 'kissing sailor' in 1945 V-J Day photo dies
  The man widely believed to be at the center of an iconic 1945 photo showing a sailor kissing a nurse in the middle of Times Square on V-J Day has died.March 15, 2014
• Finns, friends celebrate tall tale of St. Urho
  As the Irish and would-be Irish prepare to celebrate St. Patrick's Day on Monday, in small towns across Minnesota and the nation, Finnish-Americans are readying for the celebration of St. Urho, which falls on Sunday.March 14, 2014
• The slow forgetting of a space disaster
  America wasn't familiar with losing astronauts when Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee burned to death in their Apollo capsule on the launch pad during a 1967 test of their Saturn 1B rocket. We'd never lost an astronaut before. For each of the 47 years since, Betty Grissom has led those who remember the tragedy.March 14, 2014
• No gay vets in Boston's St. Patrick's Day parade
  The organizers of the parade are refusing to allow any gay groups to march. For two weeks, the city's politicians have tried to broker a deal between the Allied War Veterans Council, the parade sponsors, and MassEquality to allow gay veterans to march in the parade. But the Council said the only way they could is if there was no reference to their sexual orientation.March 14, 2014
• Home repair experts offer spring fix-up advice
  Our regular home repair experts join us to answer your questions on repairing the damage of winter and getting your home ready for the warmer months.The Daily Circuit, March 13, 2014
• Judge rules women can keep fathers out of delivery room
  The ruling involves a couple who got engaged after the woman became pregnant but later broke up. The man sued for the right to be present at the birth of his child. The judge cited the patient's right to privacy and a pregnant woman's right to control her body.March 13, 2014
• When weather turns foul, so do moods online
  Researchers analyzed millions of Facebook posts over the course of three years to gauge how moods traveled across social networks. "We were literally trying to answer the question: If it rains on your friend in Los Angeles, does it make you a little less happy in New York?" says James Fowler, the lead researcher.March 13, 2014
• Hiawatha Ave. reopened after gas leak
  Hiawatha Avenue in south Minneapolis was closed this evening after a natural gas leak. Employees at ADM Milling on Hiawatha were evacuated.March 12, 2014
• Lake Superior ice caves to close this weekend, or sooner
  The National Park Service said today it will close the Apostle Island Sea Caves at the end of the day Sunday -- or possibly sooner -- because of rapidly changing ice conditions.March 12, 2014
• Europe makes a stink about American cheese
  As part of trade talks, the EU wants to ban the use of names like Parmesan, feta and Gorgonzola on cheese made in the United States. The argument is that the American-made cheeses are shadows of the original European varieties and cut into sales and identity of the European cheeses.March 12, 2014
• Watch this Wild homecoming for a soldier
  At Xcel Center on Tuesday night, Jamie Jenn of Crystal thought she was taking part in an intermission contest, guessing what player Erik Haula said was the biggest surprise in Minnesota. It turned out to be her husband, Nick, who's been stationed in Kuwait.March 12, 2014
• Mahtomedi water main breaks; residents' taps dry
  About a dozen Mahtomedi residents will likely be without water for most of the day Tuesday after one of two water main breaks in the city remains broken.March 11, 2014
• Vicious 22-pound pet cat traps Oregon couple
  Portland police had to be called in to subdue a 22-pound house cat that trapped its owners inside their bedroom after attacking their baby. The baby was not injured in the incident.March 11, 2014

• Previous
• 210
• 211
• 212
• 213
• 214
• 215
• 216
• 217
• 218
• 219
• Next