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• Best of News Cut 5x8
  Each weekday morning the News Cut blog presents "5x8" -- five stories worth a second look. Here's the best of 5x8 for Aug. 13-17, 2012.August 18, 2012
• Photos: The Price of Safety in rural Minnesota
  Although rural crime rates are lower than those in urban areas, public safety takes a big share of local government budgets outstate. So it has come under scrutiny in a time of fiscal restraint. At the same time, in areas where populations are dwindling and aging, security concerns can change. Telecommunications, surveillance and other technology are changing how law enforcement deals with safety. And for some, what is needed is a greater sense of personal responsibility when it comes to their safety. A special Ground Level news report explores how new approaches to old problems are offering both hope and new dilemmas. Here are some of the best photos from the project.August 17, 2012
• Lonely outpost marks US-Dakota War's start
  It was 150 years ago today that four angry Dakota Indians killed several settlers near the tiny town of Acton, Minn. Within a day, the Lower Sioux Agency had been overrun and an unprecedented war between the Dakota and U.S. soldiers had begun. The effects of that war, which lasted just a few weeks, still reverberate in Minnesota today.August 17, 2012
• MPR photos of the week
  This week in photos we welcomed Minnesota's gold-medal Olympians home, covered the primary elections, reported on the ways tight budgets are affecting rural law enforcement, recalled the US-Dakota War, and followed researchers hunting for frogs that serve as indicators of ecosystem health.August 16, 2012
• Plaque marks site of Obamas' 1st kiss
  The president first kissed his now-wife outside a Chicago ice cream shop - and there's a plaque to prove it.August 16, 2012
• Brewing up love: Weddings tap craft beer craze
  Recently, couples hip to craft beers are shaking up the wedding reception scene by insisting on serving the brews they love on their big day, everything from local ales to home brews concocted by the bride and groom.August 16, 2012
• U of M hosts 4th cold climate wine comp
  A panel of 21 experts will taste and judge more than 325 wines from commercial wineries in 12 states and Canada.August 16, 2012
• Stanley Crooks: Mdewakanton were divided over US-Dakota War
  MPR News has been marking the 150th anniversary of the US-Dakota War of 1862 by speaking with various people about the implications of the conflict. Stanley Crooks, chairman of the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux community, spoke with Cathy Wurzer of Morning Edition.August 16, 2012
• Rev. Sun Myung Moon hospitalized
  Unification Church founder the Rev. Sun Myung Moon is being treated in an intensive-care unit at a hospital in Seoul for pneumonia.August 15, 2012
• Buckingham Palace: Prince Philip to hospital
  Officials did not provide any details about the cause of the 91-year-old's hospitalization, which follows two other health scares.August 15, 2012
• Minn. apple season starting early this year
  Apple growers in Minnesota are getting an early start this season.August 14, 2012
• 'Welcome Back, Kotter star' dies at 63
  The actor best known as the nerdy high-school student Arnold Horshack on "Welcome Back, Kotter," has died in Florida.August 14, 2012
• News Cut: Time for more teen driving curs?
  Only a few topics inspire a more impassioned debate at the Capitol than the occasional bill that curbs driving privileges, especially for teenagers.August 14, 2012
• Guard llamas protect Park Rapids farm
  Concern for security has led one Minnesotan to use an unusual tactic to protect his farm. Ken Kalish deploys guard llamas, both to protect farm animals from predators and to keep tabs on strangers.August 14, 2012
• Family will meet donor of life-saving transplant
  The family of a 3-year-old suburban St. Paul boy will finally have a chance to meet the person who donated the bone marrow that saved the child's life.August 13, 2012

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