MPR News photos of the week The U of M women's hockey team won the NCAAs, traditional wolf trappers got ready for the season, a tragic plane crash killed three Minnesotans and G. Love visited The Current. See those images and more in our photos of the week.March 23, 2012
Whitney Houston died from drowning, coroner says Singer Whitney Houston died from drowning in a hotel bathtub, but coroner's officials said Thursday that heart disease and chronic cocaine use were contributing factors to her death in February on the eve of the Grammy awards.March 22, 2012
Minnesota Sounds and Voices: Jane Belau's piano soothes Mayo patients Jane Belau volunteers her time every Monday and Thursday morning to play the piano in the Mayo Clinic's Gonda Building lobby. Her music entices others to sing and dance, as well as lift the spirits of patients.March 21, 2012
Mysterious booms rattle Wis. city early Wednesday The booms, which have been compared to rumbles of thunder, sonic booms or fireworks, rattled homes and awakened some residents Sunday and Monday nights as well.March 21, 2012
Whitewater farm donates 151K eggs to needy Bonnie Bellehumeur, president of Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin, says demand for food is up 23 percent over the last two years and they are pleased that egg producers can help.March 21, 2012
Underdog team's championship season brought purpose to underdog in life The Minnesota boys' state high school basketball tournament celebrates its 100th year this week with games that start today. In that long history is a memorable win that came 42 years ago this evening, when a team from tiny Sherburn in southwestern Minnesota knocked off metro powerhouse South St. Paul for the championship.March 21, 2012
Mondale remembers 'relentlessly curious' Cowles Former Vice President Walter Mondale fondly recalled newspaper publisher and philanthropist John Cowles Jr., who died on Saturday, as a relentlessly curious man who "really helped change the attractiveness of Minnesota to the world."March 19, 2012
Minn. History Center exhibit to mark US-Dakota War The Minnesota Historical Society is marking the 150th anniversary of the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862 with a new exhibit and other programs.March 17, 2012
Obama marks St. Patrick's Day with brew in a pub President Barack Obama sipped a Guinness at an Irish bar to observe St. Patrick's Day. At the White House, the main South Lawn Fountain is burbling green water.March 17, 2012