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• Twins owner remembered as family man, businessman
  Minnesota Twins owner Carl Pohlad was remembered at his funeral as a hard-driving businessman and a dedicated family man.January 8, 2009
• 2008 Year in Science
  The success and failure of the first particle collider dominated headlines this year, but scientists also discovered earthlike-exoplanets and programmable cells. Midmorning looks back on breakthroughs and breakdowns of 2008 and what science can hope for in the Obama administration.Midmorning, January 8, 2009
• Chamber orchestras flock to St. Paul
  For the next month, the Twin Cities will play host to an extraordinary orchestral event. Four of the worlds top chamber orchestras will join the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra for what's believed to be the first ever International Chamber Orchestra Festival.January 8, 2009
• Twins owner Carl Pohlad dies
  Minnesotans in business, sports and philanthropic circles are looking back on the life of Carl Pohlad, who died yesterday at the age of 93.January 5, 2009
• Rising star plays music that's old-timey and new
  Lucy Michelle and the Velvet Lapelles conquer the Twin Cities music scene.January 5, 2009
• Former Viking Carl Eller sues Minneapolis police
  Eller alleges officers violated his civil rights, used excessive force and concealed videotape evidence when they subdued him during an arrest last April.January 5, 2009
• Carol O'Connell and the covenant of the crime novel
  Carol O'Connoll's new novel "Bone by Bone" opens with a human jawbone sitting on the front porch of a house in a small California town.January 2, 2009
• Longtime central Minnesota radio man signs off
  A central Minnesota broadcasting icon retired this week. For the past 56 years, many Minnesotans grew up listening to radio announcer Cliff Mitchell on KASM-AM in Albany. At 80 years old, Mitchell decided it was time to leave the airwaves.January 2, 2009
• Minnesota time capsule awaits 2058
  Minnesota seals its sesquicentennial time capsule Jan. 6. SPAM, White Pine seeds, photographs of the Winona floods and children's notes about Barack Obama winning the presidency are part of what Minnesotans attending the state's bicentennial in 2058 will discover.January 2, 2009
• Ethical New Year's resolutions
  New York Times ethicist Randy Cohen joins Midmorning to discuss the ethical dilemmas he wrote about in 2008, and he'll answer listener questions about ethical issues large and small.Midmorning, January 2, 2009
• Paddlers bring in the new year on the river
  A small fleet of kayakers and canoe paddlers shoved off the ice and onto the open Mississippi River yesterday to celebrate a chilly tradition -- the annual New Year's Day Paddle. Boaters say it's a fitting -- if early -- start to a season on the water.January 1, 2009
• St. Paul enthusiast aims for record-setting speeds
  Local motorcycle enthusiast Steve Hamel has already set records with his 1950 Vincent, but he has his eyes set on 200 mph.January 1, 2009
• Burnsville apartment fire blamed on short circuit
  The Burnsville Fire Department says the short in the 240-volt circuit started a fire in the wall of a laundry room that spread to the rest of the building.January 1, 2009
• Clintons, revelers ring in 2009 in Times Square
  Hundreds of thousands of New York City revelers have celebrated the end of a historic year that saw the election of the first black U.S. president and a catastrophic economic meltdown and have ushered in 2009 from Times Square.December 31, 2008
• County worker fired for sinking snowplow
  A Polk County employee who accidentally sank a county loader into an icy river in Crookston has been fired.December 31, 2008

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