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MPR parent company cuts 30 jobs following federal funding cuts
Minnesota Public Radio's parent company laid off 30 staff members Friday after Congress clawed back funding that it had previously approved for public broadcasting. Cuts in state funding from the Minnesota Legislature exacerbated the budget gap.
Minneapolis Park Board announces Hiawatha Golf Course redesign options
The historic Hiawatha Golf Course has experienced major flooding over its century-long history. The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board announced redesign options to mitigate the course’s water issues.
From antique furniture to odd metal aliens, Gold Rush Days brings thousands to Oronoco
This weekend, the quiet downtown area in Oronoco becomes an antique mecca as hundreds of sellers of well aged and vintage collectables descend on this small southeast Minnesota town for Gold Rush Days, which is taking place for the 53rd year.
More than two decades after a group of Boy Scouts stumbled upon a skull while hiking near Houlton, Wis., a nonprofit has identified the remains as those of Alyce Catharina Peterson, Stillwater woman who died of natural causes in 2001 and was reported to have been cremated.
UnitedHealth Group shares climb as Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway discloses stake in the insurer
Shares of UnitedHealth Group are surging before the market open Friday as Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway disclosed that it recently purchased shares of the beleaguered insurer. Berkshire Hathaway bought around 5 million shares of UnitedHealth last quarter, according to a regulatory filing.
Looking back at the nuclear age of filmmaking
Movies can tell us a lot about what scares us. And ever since the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the fear of nuclear war has reverberated across decades of film.