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• Gunshots and surrender: The sound of our dying neighborhoods
  NewsCut: In July, neighbors gathered in North Minneapolis (above) to rally against gun violence. Last week, a beating on St. Paul's East Side left neighbors begging officials to do something -- anything. Unless something changes, 2013 in the Twin Cities may be the summer when people and politicians gave up and ceded their neighborhoods to the gangs.August 20, 2013
• Al-Jazeera America comes to US cable today
  The network has hired many veterans of U.S. television, including John Seigenthaler, Joie Chen, Antonio Mora and Sheila MacVicar, and is promising a meaty diet of news that it believes will contrast with the opinionated talk that dominates American news networks.August 20, 2013
• Complete this sentence: My Town Is...
  As part of our MPR News eBook project called Fighting for an American Countryside, we asked a dozen Minnesotans to finish the sentence that begins, "My town is . . ." What would you say about your town in less than a minute?August 20, 2013
• Minneapolis launches new website to reunite lost pets with owners
  The city's animal care and control office takes in nearly 4,000 animals a year. Renae Elert's dog, Tucker, was the first to be reunited with its family through Minneapolis' new lost-pet website.August 19, 2013
• 2 sisters give Minn. brother gift of life
  In 1998, Jim Thompson's oldest sister gave him a kidney in a transplant operation that kept him off dialysis for 15 years. Now the Willmar-area man will be receiving a kidney from his youngest sister.August 18, 2013
• Minn. grandma saves snow for Calif. granddaughter
  Bernie Ostendorf loves winter in St. Cloud, and she wanted her granddaughter from California to know the same thrill of playing in the snow. So she kept bags of snow in her freezer until 6-year-old Cedar Moore visited this week.August 17, 2013
• Today's Question: Are you a fan of pedal pubs?
  Critics of pedal pubs seized upon yesterday's pedal pub crash in Minneapolis to vent their frustrations over the bikes.August 16, 2013
• How a seed saver discovered one of our favorite tomatoes
  Tomatoes this time of year are strutting their stuff in all sorts of glorious and quirky hues. Amateur breeders -- passionate seed savers and collectors -- are playing a vital role in discovering fruit and vegetable varieties guarded and nurtured by families over generations.August 15, 2013
• Child born in 2012 will cost $241,080 to raise
  The United States Department of Agriculture concluded today that a child born in 2012 will cost $241,080 to raise over the next 17 years. This represents a 2.6 percent increase from 2011.August 15, 2013
• Central Pa. farmer's corn crop yields 4-headed ear
  When farmer Ben Klunk tells people about the mutant corn he found, they're all ears.August 14, 2013
• Where are the top bike rides in Minnesota?
  With the Twin Cities regularly topping the lists of best places for bicyclists and Duluth on its way to becoming a destination for mountain biking, we asked some bike experts, and rider in our Public Insight Network, to share their top rides with us.August 14, 2013
• Across Minnesota, 'Fighting for an American Countryside'
  MPR's four-year Ground Level project has explored rural Minnesota with one guiding quest: Where are people trying to fix things? We talked to hundreds of people concerned about everything from elderly care to entrepreneurs, and now we've put together our findings in an e-book and online.August 14, 2013
• Extreme Sandbox offers big toys for adults
  If you're tired of the same old corporate team-building golf outings, you might want to consider taking up a sledge hammer, spray paint and driving a 19-ton excavator. That's the idea behind Extreme Sandbox, a company that lets you do just that.August 14, 2013
• Ethan Neid's olympics raise money for charity
  You could try to raise kids more awesome than Ethan Neid of Sartell, MN. and his pals, but the odds aren't in your favor. Witness how young Neid spent his Saturday.August 12, 2013
• Sheep running amok all part of the hijinks at Irish Fair
  At the Irish Fair of Minnesota in St. Paul on Saturday afternoon, six sheep escaped during a herding demonstration, bolting the ring, pushing through the crowd and running around Harriet Island. A sheepdog dutifully followed and tried to restore order. After a brief chase, the dog -- with occasional assistance from surprised fairgoers -- returned the sheep to the demonstration area. The Irish Fair, the nation's largest free celebration of Irish culture, began Friday and ends at 7 p.m. Sunday, according to the event's website.August 11, 2013

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