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- In your words: What has early spring meant in MN?
From Crookston to Winona, sources in our Public Insight Network tell us the early spring has meant optimism, flexibility and a certain amount of unease.March 30, 2012 - Maple syrup producers experience worst year in memory
There are some wonderful things about our early spring. But it hasn't been good for everybody -- especially not Minnesota's maple syrup producers.March 30, 2012 - In early spring, one family's last walk
Every sign of winter's end carries significance for Terry Strack and his wife, Cynthia Smith-Strack, because they know it will likely be their last spring together.March 30, 2012 - Warm weather brings some birds back
In the fall, Duluth is famous among birdwatchers for the scores of hawks that fly past. But it's also a birding haven in the spring, when both raptors and songbirds migrate north.March 30, 2012 - Farmers get an early start, but not too early
Mid-March is generally a time when snow still covers this high ground along the Buffalo Ridge in southwestern Minnesota. But this year, all the past rules about spring weather seem to have disappeared.March 30, 2012 - Minnesota in Photos: Spring blossomed early
Signs of spring can be seen several weeks earlier than normal in Minnesota. We visited Battle Creek Regional Park in Maplewood and the Peace Garden in Minneapolis to get a closer look.March 30, 2012 - Docks going in a month earlier than usual
One businessman hopes whitecaps on the lakes in March are a harbinger of a rebound in his business.March 30, 2012 - Earl Scruggs dies at age 88
Bluegrass legend and banjo pioneer Earl Scruggs, who teamed helped profoundly change country music with Bill Monroe and later with guitarist Lester Flatt, has died. He was 88.March 29, 2012 - What Dick Cheney can expect after his heart transplant
A fellow recipient looks back on his own recovery and offers this assurance: the former vice president will get better, day by day.March 29, 2012 - Fargo authorities search Red River for man
Authorities in Fargo are searching for a man they say jumped in the Red River to get away from police.March 28, 2012 - Booms back in Wisconsin town
Residents are shaken by booms once again in a Wisconsin city where a small earthquake was recorded last week.March 28, 2012 - Minnesota statesman Larry Haws dies at 72
Former legislator and St. Cloud community leader Larry Haws died today, according to his daughter, Kelly Haws. He was 72.March 27, 2012 - Photos: Mohamud Mumin's Somali youth exhibit
For years, photographer Mohamud Mumin watched as a tiny minority of Somali-Americans -- like those who left Minnesota to join the radical Islamic militia group al-Shabab -- made headlines. Mumin wanted to refocus attention on the more positive, and more representative, happenings in the Somali community. In 2010, he began capturing the images of young Somali men and documenting their efforts to improve the lives of those around them. On March 24, 2012, the Whittier Gallery in Minneapolis, Minn., launched an exhibition of his work.March 27, 2012 - This week in Minnesota
Plane crash kills three in Glencoe; Supervalu ends 'pink slime' sales; fighting fires in drag; ice-out comes early and other stories featured on Minnesota Today from MPR News this week.March 24, 2012 - Minn. Kmart shopper protests store's closing
A New Ulm woman who has shopped at her local Kmart store for more than three decades is staging a personal protest on behalf of employees she considers her friends.March 23, 2012
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