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Walz returns to Mankato to reprise role as coach, deliver football pep talk and campaign a little
The governor stopped through on a campaign visit marking the 25th anniversary of the season the Mankato West football team won the state championship with him as assistant coach. He will attend the Governors Pheasant opener in Sleepy Eye Saturday.
Enrollment is up at Minnesota State colleges, a new fund helped
The state’s new program, North Star Promise, guarantees lower-income Minnesotans can attend public colleges or universities tuition-free. Nearly 17,000 students received North Star scholarships this fall, according to preliminary data for Minnesota State, tribal colleges and the University of Minnesota.
Prepared to sit out election over war abroad, a young Minnesota voter finds her way back into the fold
As the Democratic presidential ticket changed, a young voter came around to supporting it despite her frustrations with U.S. policy toward war in the Middle East.
Jury convicts Derrick Thompson on gun, drug charges in 2023 crash that killed 5
A federal jury on Friday returned guilty verdicts against a Brooklyn Park man in connection with a crash last year that killed five young women on Lake Street in Minneapolis. Thompson’s conviction in this trial wasn’t for the crash itself, but the cocaine, 2,000 fentanyl pills, and gun that police found in the SUV.
Hastings to receive 3M settlement money to treat 'forever chemicals'
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency announced it's linked PFAS contamination in one of Hastings’ wells to 3M's Cottage Grove facility. City officials say the money will help, but won’t cover the full $70 million to build three new treatment plants.
Beyond books: How a public library in Ohio’s Rust Belt is spurring economic growth
The public library in Toledo, Ohio, is one of a number across the U.S. that have become entrepreneurial hubs. Business-specialist librarians are helping aspiring small-business owners and nonprofits for free.
Although Milton has moved on, at least 8 are dead and millions remain in the dark
Rescue teams are plucking Florida residents from the flotsam of Hurricane Milton after the storm smashed through coastal communities. The storm tore homes into pieces, filled streets with mud and spawned a barrage of deadly tornadoes. At least eight people are dead. 
Nobel Peace Prize given to Japanese organization Nihon Hidankyo for its work against nuclear weapons
The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese organization of survivors of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, for its activism against nuclear weapons. Jørgen Watne Frydnes, chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, said Friday the award was made as the “taboo against the use of nuclear weapons is under pressure.”