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Chemical mix sickens Eagan hotel employees

Six hotel employees in Eagan were taken to the hospital after becoming sick from a toxic mix of chemicals.

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Disease kills 900 birds on Marsh Lake in western Minn.

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is blaming a large bird die-off in western Minnesota on Newcastle disease, a viral disease that commonly infects cormorants.
by Mark Steil and Elizabeth Dunbar

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BP says it still might drill in spill reservoir

BP PLC says it may in the future drill in the same Gulf of Mexico oil reservoir that blew its top and caused one of the world's worst spills.

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As Gulf plug firms up, BP shakes up its spill team

A mud-and-cement plug cured Friday in a blown-out oil well at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, a key effort in snuffing the massive leak for good, while a BP personnel shuffle indicated shifting priorities as the petroleum giant gains the upper hand.

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14-year-olds rescued from Minn. lake

Two 14-year-old girls, struggling in the water after their canoe capsized on a southern Minnesota lake, were rescued by a police officer and a police department secretary.

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2 dead, dozens hurt in school bus crash in Mo.

Two school buses packed with children crashed into a tractor-trailer near St. Louis Thursday, leaving two dead and at least 50 people injured, officials said.

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Minn. hiker struck by lightning in Rocky Mountains

Officials at Rocky Mountain National Park say a man hiking Longs Peak was struck by lightning but had no memory of being hit.

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Judge to rule on new trial for Minn. Toyota driver

A Minnesota man convicted in a deadly 2006 Toyota crash will soon learn whether he gets a new trial.
by Tim Nelson

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Driver of truck in fatal accident was cited before

The truck driver who lost a landscape block and caused a deadly highway crash was fined last year for failing to secure his load.

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EPA chief: too early to assess oil spills' damages

The head of the federal Environmental Protection Agency says it's too early to assess the damages from two oil spills -- one in the Gulf of Mexico and the other in Michigan's Kalamazoo River.
by Stephanie Hemphill

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