Pawlenty to attend funeral of Minnesota airman Gov. Tim Pawlenty will attend a funeral
Saturday in northern Minnesota for a National Guard major killed in
the crash of a military cargo plane in Alaska.August 14, 2010
Film tells of a man who attended his own funeral before dying Many of us muse about what people might say about us after we die. A new movie, "Get Low," opening in the Twin Cities this weekend, tells the story of a man who decided to find out.August 11, 2010
Dan Rostenkowski, 18-term congressman, dies Former Rep. Dan Rostenkowski, the Chicago
Democrat who became the leading architect of congressional tax
policy in the Reagan era but later went to federal prison for
corruption, died Wednesday, a family friend said. He was 82.August 11, 2010
Pillsbury Doughboy takes on Dough Girl, and wins A tiny Salt Lake City cookie bakery, called My Dough Girl, has discovered the Pillsbury Doughboy can pack quite a punch. The bakery's owner will find a new name for her business after General Mills had told her to stop using Dough Girl, because it's too similar to its trademark Doughboy.August 10, 2010
Retracing Mallory's steps on Everest An American mountain climber and mountaineer retraced the journey of both Shackleton and George Mallory, discovering Mallory's body on Mount Everest.Midmorning, August 10, 2010
St. Cloud school board elections feature Somali candidates St. Cloud residents will vote in two elections Tuesday to narrow down candidates for school board seats, and both elections have Somali candidates for the first time ever.August 9, 2010
Actress Patricia Neal dies at 84 Patricia Neal, the willowy, husky-voiced
actress who won an Academy Award for 1963's "Hud" and then
survived several strokes to continue acting, died on Sunday.August 8, 2010
Local slam poetry team defends championship A hometown team has won the twenty-first National Poetry Slam Championship, held in St. Paul's Roy Wilkins Auditorium.August 8, 2010
Minn. troops revel in special homecoming ceremony A Minnesota battalion that returned
home a few months ago got special recognition this week from
friends, family and state officials.August 8, 2010
St. Paul plays host to "geek" conference Self-described "geeky girls" are gathering at the Science Museum of Minnesota Saturday for the "She's Geeky unConference," held in Minnesota for the first time.August 7, 2010