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• Doctors face dilemma if boy refuses chemo
  A 13-year-old boy's vow to resist chemotherapy by punching or kicking anyone who tries to force it on him will present doctors with a tough task if they can't change his mind.May 18, 2009
• Wedding ring lost in Rochester turns up in Africa
  A man lost his wedding ring in Rochester, but found it again in Africa.May 18, 2009
• Minnesota soldiers deployed to Afghanistan
  Minnesota Army Reserve soldiers will deploy to Afghanistan later this year. 140 soldiers from the Fort Snelling-based 372nd Engineer Brigade will go to Afghanistan in October as part of Operation Enduring Freedom.May 18, 2009
• Nobel Laureate Kofi Annan at Macalester today
  Former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan is making a brief visit to St. Paul today for the unveiling of a statue in his honor.May 18, 2009
• Tough economy increases caseload at family court
  As unemployment rises, family courts are feeling the pain. More parents are seeking changes in their child support payments. That's leading to a higher volume of cases just as the state grapples with a multi-billion dollar budget deficit.May 18, 2009
• Program brings agriculture to the classroom
  Sarah Striemer's fourth-grade students heard their guest speaker coming all the way down the hall. It was the incessant bleating that gave her away.May 16, 2009
• Raising sheep a family affair on one farm
  The most recent agricultural census finds a growing number of women farmers in the U.S. It reports a nearly 30 percent increase in women farmers from 2002 to 2007. And for those women raising sheep, being a wool producer comes at a time when the number of knitters fueling the knitting industry is on the rise.May 15, 2009
• Judge orders 13-year-old to undergo cancer treatments
  A Brown County judge has ordered chemotherapy for a 13-year-old boy whose parents had stopped his treatment for Hodgkin's lymphoma on religious grounds.May 15, 2009
• TRiO program fuels college dreams
  At each level of education, from ninth grade to college graduate, Minnesota is losing students of color. The TRiO program is trying to improve those statistics, one student at a time.May 15, 2009
• Director aims to change Iron Mike Tyson's image
  Film director James Toback says he wants to change the way the world sees Mike Tyson. The former world heavyweight boxing champion has been mired in controversy for what he did inside and outside the ring. He also spent years in jail for things he did outside the ropes. Now Toback has made a film that let's Tyson make his own case that he has been misunderstood.May 15, 2009
• Pope in Bethlehem endorses independent Palestinian state
  Standing in the cradle of Christianity, Pope Benedict XVI told Palestinians on Wednesday that he understands their suffering and offered his strongest public backing yet for an independent Palestinian state.May 13, 2009
• Ski trek to North Pole is an American first
  An Ely man and his fellow arctic adventurer are back from an unprecedented North Pole expedition. Tyler Fish and John Huston made a 55-day trek across the Arctic Ocean without any external help; skiing, snowshoeing, and even swimming their way to the top of the Earth.May 12, 2009
• Reward doubled for missing Thief River Falls woman
  Thirty-three-year-old Gina Anderson was last seen Oct. 23 driving away from her home. She left behind her purse and anti-seizure medication.May 11, 2009
• Postal worker food drive is today
  Postal workers are collecting non-perishable food today as part of an national effort to fight hunger.May 9, 2009
• After 30 years, metal band Anvil becomes an overnight success
  Friday night, some longtime unsung heroes of heavy metal music played in Minneapolis. Members of Anvil have been rocking together since the early 1970's and they are credited as being a formative influence on many of the big name bands today. Yet despite playing regularly for more than 30 years, until recently they were relatively unknown. That's changed as a result of a new documentary.May 8, 2009

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