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• Fall color show picking up momentum
  Peak fall color is arriving a bit later than it did last year, thanks to a warm September. Observers in state parks and recreation areas are reporting pockets of color.October 3, 2013
• Social media detectives: Is that viral video for real?
  Whether it's an uprising in Egypt or a twerking session gone awry, news outlets need to know everything they can about a video before they run with it.October 2, 2013
• New cemetery in SE Minn. will let veterans be buried closer to home
  The state currently has two veterans cemeteries -- one in Minneapolis and one in Little Falls. Construction begins soon on a third cemetery in southeastern Minnesota that will be a final resting place for more than 35,000 veterans.October 2, 2013
• Best-selling local author Neil Gaiman #1 for BBC World Book Club
  Best-selling author Neil Gaiman was the winner of the "most-wanted-author-poll" for the BBC World Book Club. Originally from Britain, the author of comic books, short stories, science fiction and fantasy novels now lives in Menomonie, Wisconsin. He talks to BBC World Book Club host Harriett Gilbert, and a global audience, about his book "American Gods."Minnesota Public Radio News Presents, October 2, 2013
• Photos, technology change self-perception
  As we get older, there's no denying that our bodies change. Photographs of ourselves can be startling, sometimes unnerving reminders of those changes.October 2, 2013
• Police: missing girls found safe
  The five girls between the ages of 11 and 13 had been missing since Monday.October 1, 2013
• WWII vets to politicians: 'Get out of my way'
  Time is running out for World War II vets to visit their memorial in Washington; they don't have time for the politicians to grow, act like adults, and govern the nation in a responsible way. They barreled through the barricades today.October 1, 2013
• Duluth's homeless say encampment should remain
  Members of homeless encampment ask police not to break up their settlement because they are safer in a group than on their own.October 1, 2013
• Abandoned Minn. bear cub does not survive
  Linda Woodruff of Zimmerman found the male cub while walking her dogs Saturday.October 1, 2013
• NYC police look for mystery parachutists
  NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly said private security guards reported seeing parachutists land in front of the Goldman Sachs headquarters at about 3 a.m. Monday.September 30, 2013
• Girl Scouts launch drive to halt membership drop
  The campaign launch follows a trying stretch for the Girl Scouts, who celebrated their centennial in 2012 but have confronted multiple difficulties this year. These include a deficit-strapped pension plan, rifts over the direction of Girl Scout programming and revenue shortfalls that prompted the national headquarters to trim about one-fourth of its staff through buyouts and layoffs.September 29, 2013
• Notions of beauty can be a real beast
  Around the world, women continue to go to extreme measures in pursuit of "beauty." That women subject themselves to complicated and bizarre, not to mention dangerous, procedures gets one thinking about physical beauty, and who gets to define the standards.September 28, 2013
• Phantom phone vibrations: So common they've changed our brains?
  Phantom vibration -- that phenomenon where you think your phone is vibrating but it's not -- has only been around since the mobile age. It's so common that researchers have devoted studies to it.September 28, 2013
• Woman asks Miss. to recognize her same-sex marriage
  A woman is asking the conservative state of Mississippi to recognize her out-of-state same-sex marriage so that she can get a divorce.September 27, 2013
• Anyone lose a pair of pigs? Minneapolis asks
  Minneapolis police and animal control officers apprehended two piglets this morning after they were found wandering near the intersection of 23rd Ave. and Emerson Ave. N.September 27, 2013

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