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- 100 years later, Titanic lives on in letters
A movie can help us picture the events. For a more complete understanding, there are books and letters.April 7, 2012 - MPR News photos of the week
This week, we visited an oasis in a western Minnesota food desert, the northern woods and the Jordan home of a family involved in a devastating crash in Kansas.April 6, 2012 - Minn. woman celebrating 106th birthday
Esther Sharrow, of Sartell, is the guest of honor at the local senior center where family and friends will gather to help her celebrate birthday number 106 Thursday.April 5, 2012 - A Minnesota anthropologist considers the politics of identity
Uniting against a common enemy might come in handy about now.April 5, 2012 - Sports, art, streetlights: A new life in Mogadishu
The seaside capital of Mogadishu is full of life for the first time in 20 years after African Union and Somali troops pushed Islamist militants out of the city last year.April 4, 2012 - Homelessness is a big problem with lots of solutions
All Minnesotans would benefit from a state in which everyone had a home.April 4, 2012 - In search of my 1940 family
We're a people who want to be connected to the people who came before. The fact that the 1940 Census website crashed yesterday under the crush of 37 million requests shows that we're looking for something. But what? News Cut writer Bob Collins went in search of information about his family and his hometown in Massachusetts.April 3, 2012 - Ojibwe author David Treuer's journey at Leech Lake
David Treuer, an Ojibwe Indian from the Leech Lake Reservation in northern Minnesota, speaks at the Minneapolis Central Library as part of the Hennepin County Library's "Talk of the Stacks" series. His new book is titled, "Rez Life: An Indian's Journey Through Reservation Life."Minnesota Public Radio News Presents, April 3, 2012 - High demand slows access to 1940 census website
High demand for access to newly released personal data from the 1940 Census is causing a slowdown on the host website, according to officials at the National Archives.April 2, 2012 - Mega Millions mystery: Who won?
The wait continues to see who bought the three winning tickets in Friday's record $656 million Mega Millions lottery drawing.April 2, 2012 - Minn. Sheriff's chaplain ends long career of counseling
For nearly 25 years, Nev Crowther served as the Ramsey County sheriff's office's "one-man God squad," as a few of his longtime deputy friends call him, before recently retiring.April 1, 2012 - This week in Minnesota
Spring, too much of a good thing?; Twin Metals moves forward with 80,000-ton-per-day mine near Ely; What liberals and conservatives like about each other and other stories this week found on Minnesota Today from MPR News.March 31, 2012 - Deadline near for Great American Think-Off
Time is running out if you want to enter this year's Great American Think-Off contest in Minnesota.March 31, 2012 - MPR News photos of the week
We watched as spring came much sooner than expected, admired a photographer's new exhibition about Somali youth in Minneapolis, saw Michele Bachmann outside the Supreme Court, covered local rallies in support of an unarmed Florida teenager shot dead by a neighborhood watch member, a rally against the same-sex marriage ban, and more.March 30, 2012 - Lottery jackpot increases to $640M
Lottery ticket lines swelled Friday as players drawn by a record $640 million Mega Millions jackpot cast aside concerns about odds to take a chance at becoming an overnight millionaire.March 30, 2012
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