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• Brits, Americans feud over smallest park
  The British and the Americans are quarreling -- albeit with tongues in cheek -- over territory again, this time over who has the world's smallest park.April 12, 2013
• News Cut: News quiz
  Here are 10 questions based on news events this week. Let's see how well you've paid attention. Please report your score in the comments section.April 12, 2013
• Kim Kardashian in key divorce hearing
  Kim Kardashian appeared in court Friday for a hearing aimed at settling her divorce case from NBA player Kris Humphries.April 12, 2013
• Should volunteers help flood victims with the means to move?
  Each year it occurs, the fight against flooding in the Fargo-Moorhead area becomes more of a class war. A sociology professor at Concordia College in Moorhead felt differently when he first moved to the region a few years ago. Then he found himself sandbagging around "McMansions."April 12, 2013
• MPR News photos of the week
  Weather was the headline story this week, but we also had time for a visit with a master falconer and a sheep farm where lambing season is underway. All that and more in our photos of the week.April 12, 2013
• Rick Warren: Son used unregistered gun in suicide
  Pastor Rick Warren has tweeted that his son killed himself with an unregistered gun purchased through the Internet.April 11, 2013
• News Cut: Meet the family that brought gymnastics to Hendricks
  Stop me if you've heard this before. A farm couple builds a sports complex in the belief that people will come. And they do. In Hendricks, MN., however, it's not baseball and corn. It's a farm shed and gymnastics that's gotten people to sit up and take notice.April 11, 2013
• Spring means lambing season in Minnesota
  Spring brings new life to the landscape. The birth of a new crop of lambs is a yearly ritual at this small Minnesota farm.April 10, 2013
• Top Minn. baby names in 2011: Mason, Olivia
  The Social Security Administration released its updated list of top baby names today to reflect the most recent data from babies born in 2011. Olivia and Mason topped the list of Minnesota baby names.April 10, 2013
• Photos: Birthing season on Ellison sheep farm
  Minnesota has 3,000 sheep farms and more than 130,000 sheep according to the state Board of Animal Health.April 10, 2013
• Fridley teacher honored for education effort on Holocaust
  Anneke Branderhorst, who teaches a course about the holocaust at Calvin Christian High School in Fridley, will receive the Jewish Community Relations Council's Courage to Teach Award for her effort.April 8, 2013
• Mouseketeer Annette Funicello dies
  Annette Funicello, the most popular Mouseketeer on "The Mickey Mouse Club," who matured to a successful career in records and '60s beach party movies but struggled with illness in middle age and after, died Monday, The Walt Disney Co. said. She was 70.April 8, 2013
• Online translation on the rise, changing lives
  Google is now doing a record billion translations on any given day, as much text as you'd find in 1 million books for everything from understanding school lunch menus to gathering national security intelligence. It translates in 65 languages, from Afrikaans to Yiddish, and can be used on websites, with speech recognition and as an app on mobile phones even if there is no connection.April 6, 2013
• Minn. Justice Alan Page's foundation celebrates 25th year
  Minnesota Supreme Court Justice Alan Page's foundation has supported the work of more than 5,000 scholars of all academic levels.April 5, 2013
• News Cut: Weekly Quiz
  Here are 10 questions based on news events this week. Let's see how well you've paid attention.April 5, 2013

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