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Former UMD hockey coach's gender discrimination trial begins
Former women's hockey coach Shannon Miller argues the University of Minnesota Duluth fired her because she's a woman, and for complaining about discrimination. UMD says the firing was performance-related.
A fundraising campaign honoring Philando Castile has raised enough money to pay the debt of students enrolled in a federal school lunch program in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Here's why schools closed before it even started snowing
The Twin Cities woke up this morning to icy roads but no major snow, prompting some to ask, "When did Minnesota get so soft?" It's likely that no superintendent wants a repeat of what happened to the St. Paul school district in January.
Robert Gerhart, the chair of the Osseo Area School Board, stepped down Friday
Who wants to arm teachers? Republican men
A new NPR/Ipsos poll finds about 6 in 10 Americans are opposed to training teachers to carry guns in schools. But two-thirds of Republicans, including 71 percent of Republican men, are in favor of it.