Hear MPR award-winning reports MPR reports won many broadcasting awards this spring. Hear reports this hour on the deployment and return of the Red Bulls, decades of change in Austin, and central Minnesota horse farmers. The award-winning reporters heard this hour are Tom Robertson, Elizabeth Baier and Sasha Aslanian.Midday, May 5, 2011
After Bin Laden's death, Obama visits NY President Obama is going to ground zero in New York Thursday. Even though he's visiting in the emotional wake of the killing of Sept 11 mastermind Osama bin Laden, but the president isn't expected to change his low key demeanor.May 5, 2011
Novelist illuminates a special time in Rome David Bezmozgis sets his new novel "The Free World" in the late 1970s, when many Soviet Jews fleeing communist Russia ended up in Rome. There they waited to learn where they would end up: the USA, Canada, Australia, or Israel.May 4, 2011
Local film is literally 'Stuck Between Stations' The 2011 Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival wraps Thursday night with a local film that's causing a lot of buzz. "Stuck Between Stations" is set in Minneapolis, written and directed by Minneapolitans, and made by an overwhelmingly Minnesota crew.May 4, 2011
White House: bin Laden unarmed during assault Osama bin Laden was unarmed when he was confronted by U.S. commandos at his Pakistani hideout but tried to resist the assault, the White House said Tuesday.May 3, 2011
Reactions from around Minnesota about Osama bin Laden's death Osama bin Laden, the mastermind of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, has been killed by U.S. forces in Pakistan. Minnesota Public Radio News has reached out to our Public Insight Network for thoughts and reactions of the news.May 2, 2011
Minnesota adventurers prepare for next journey With 70,000 students tethered to them
through the Internet, four northern Minnesota adventurers recently
completed a 900-mile dogsled trip in Canada's Northwest
Territories.May 2, 2011
Americans gather joyfully to mark bin Laden death Jubilant New Yorkers gathered at the spot where the World Trade Center fell almost 10 years ago, waving American flags, snapping pictures and breaking into song early Monday to celebrate the death of Osama bin Laden.May 2, 2011