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• Jerry Rosendahl, state's top fire chief, to retire
  Rosendahl, who began his career as a volunteer firefighter in Woodbury, Minn., in 1974, has also led the Owatonna Fire Department and served as state director of emergency management.October 25, 2013
• Veterans march to raise awareness of military suicides
  The march began Friday morning at the VFW on Lakeshore Drive South in Richfield where it was headed to the State Capitol in St. Paul before ending at the VFW in Uptown Minneapolis.October 25, 2013
• Guy on train live tweets former CIA chief's on-background interview
  You'd think he'd be more careful: The man who was once responsible for the National Security Agency and the Central Intelligence Agency was giving a background interview during a train ride, but he didn't notice that a fellow passenger was live tweeting the highlights.October 25, 2013
• Lessons from 'the little grey-haired lady'
  "I wanted a cashier who would know me, who would chat with me," an 80-year-old woman told the Pioneer Press. "I didn't want someone who just rang up my stuff and sent me on my way. I tried her out and she was perfect. She is absolutely one in a million."October 25, 2013
• White House goes pink for breast cancer awareness
  Tourists may do a double take when they pass by the White House on Thursday.October 25, 2013
• 'Redskins' name won't be banned in Vikings game
  Opponents of the Washington football team's name have asked the word Redskins not be used at the Metrodome when the Vikings play D.C. in Minneapolis on Nov. 7. But Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority chairwoman Michele Kelm-Helgen says there's not much her agency can do about it.October 24, 2013
• News an incidental part of Facebook, study finds
  Most people don't log on to Facebook to find out the news. But it's an important news source anyway, even if incidentally, a study released Thursday indicated.October 24, 2013
• Marching to fight suicides among war veterans
  Landon Steele says 23 military veterans kill themselves each day, he says. So he's organized a 23-mile march for veterans in full gear tomorrow, starting at 9 a.m., from the Richfield VFW to the Capitol in St. Paul to the VFW in Uptown, Minneapolis, to remind veterans not to leave any soldier behind.October 24, 2013
• Putting names on unmarked state hospital graves
  The dead here didn't get names, only numbers. Thousands of Minnesotans who were housed in the state's mental hospitals simply disappeared this way. The asylums are long gone, but the unknown graves remain.October 24, 2013
• It takes a classroom to learn the family language
  Call it a linguistic identity crisis. The desire to reinforce ethnic identity through language is a feeling that many first-, second- and third-generation Americans understand well.October 24, 2013
• Time could be running out on 1926 Duluth church
  Preservationists want St. Peter's Catholic Church in Duluth designated as a landmark in hopes of saving it from destruction, but time could be running out.October 24, 2013
• Photos: Remembering the buried and anonymous
  The asylums are long gone, but the unknown graves remain in Hastings and around Minnesota. Advocates for the mentally ill have pressed to find the cemeteries and identify the dead.October 24, 2013
• High-altitude balloon to take tourists into space
  The latest space tourism venture depends more on hot air than rocket science. A company announced plans to send people up in a capsule, lifted 19 miles by a high-altitude balloon.October 22, 2013
• U.S. to stop printing nautical charts
  The federal government is going into uncharted waters, deep-sixing the giant paper nautical charts that it has been printing for mariners for more than 150 years.October 22, 2013
• Slain Iraq vet's SpongeBob gravestone gives cemetery a headache
  Officials at a cemetery that removed a slain Iraq war veteran's towering SpongeBob SquarePants headstone from her final resting place after they deemed it inappropriate for their traditional grounds were planning to meet with the soldier's family to explore possible solutions.October 22, 2013

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