Competing robots take over U of M arenas Thousands of high school students are expected to pack the university's Williams and Mariucci arenas for the Minnesota Regional FIRST Robotics Competitions Friday and Saturday.March 28, 2013
At Bridging, Fran Heitzman connects the needy with furnishings others discard A non-profit founded in 1987 by the 88-year-old Heitzman at a suburban Twin Cities church, Bridging has grown into one of North America's largest furniture stores in which customers too poor to pay can shop for free.March 27, 2013
How to plan a genealogical travel adventure Many people are using their vacations to connect with their past and find distant relatives. We take a look at traveling to find your roots, how to plan for it and how it affects your life.The Daily Circuit, March 27, 2013
Charges dropped against Punxsutawney Phil Phil is off the hook. A winter-weary Ohio prosecutor who filed a tongue-in-cheek criminal indictment against the famous Pennsylvania groundhog over his "prediction" of an early spring dropped the charge Tuesday.March 26, 2013
Right-to-die group member dies A member of a right-to-die group facing assisted-suicide charges in Minnesota has died after a long battle with prostate cancer.March 26, 2013
Sequester cuts Ellsworth air show this year Officials at Ellsworth Air Force Base have cancelled this year's Dakota Thunder air show because of automatic federal spending cuts that took effect this month.March 26, 2013
Hormel CEO donates to military families The head of Austin-based Hormel Foods is presenting a $50,000 donation to a home for families of patients at the Minneapolis VA Medical Center.March 26, 2013
Video: A child's life in a homeless shelter On any given night, more than 100 families stay at People Serving People, a homeless shelter in downtown Minneapolis. MPR News spent time with one of the shelter's residents, a third-grader named Paris.March 25, 2013
Obama to designate 5 national monuments President Barack Obama is designating five new national monuments, using executive authority to protect historic or ecologically significant sites -- including one in Delaware sought by Vice President Joe Biden.March 23, 2013
MPR photos of the week: Endless winter; gun debates, Bachmann at CPAC, 'On The Road' Spring is here, but Mother Nature doesn't seem to have received the memo; guns and the gun debate keep holding our attention; Michele Bachmann gets a 'four Pinocchios' fact check, we meet the director of 'On The Road,' and more in this week's MPR photos of the week.March 22, 2013
Gov. Dayton's dog, Mesabi, dies Gov. Mark Dayton used his Facebook page to announce that Mesabi died after having surgery to remove his spleen and to remove a cancerous tumor.March 22, 2013
At installation Mass, Pope Francis urges protection of nature, the poor and weak Pope Francis urged princes, presidents, sheiks and thousands of ordinary people gathered for his installation Mass on Tuesday to protect the environment, the weakest and the poorest, mapping out a clear focus of his priorities as leader of the world's 1.2 billion CatholicsMarch 19, 2013