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Grand Salami: The Twins are swinging for the fences with playoff fare

Grand Salami: The Twins are swinging for the fences with playoff fare

A day after the Twins set the mark for most home runs in a season, they’re rolling out about a dozen playoff additions to the food service menu in their home stadium, starting Oct. 7.
by Tim Nelson

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Red means go: Fall colors on the march in northern Minnesota

Red means go: Fall colors on the march in northern Minnesota

The DNR’s Friday fall color map reveals a chunk of northeastern Minnesota that’s rushing now into maximum beauty. Here are three great places to trek this weekend.
by MPR News Staff

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When we love our food so much that it goes extinct

When we love our food so much that it goes extinct

A new book explores how overhunting and habitat destruction have left us with only a fraction of the foods that existed a century ago, and the changes that are needed to preserve our culinary variety.
by Luisa Torres

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Color coated: Leaf season bursts in northern Minnesota

Color coated: Leaf season bursts in northern Minnesota

It’s happening. Minnesota’s fall leaf season is suddenly swelling with color across swaths of northern Minnesota and the Arrowhead. Here are three great places to trek this weekend.
by MPR News Staff

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Hiker drags himself through Australia woods with broken leg

A hiker on Wednesday said he crawled for two days through rugged Australian woodland with a broken leg and arm after falling six meters (20 feet) down a waterfall and then dropping his cellphone in a creek.
by The Associated Press

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Minnesota’s busiest state park reopens after flood cleanup

Minnesota’s busiest state park reopens after flood cleanup

Fort Snelling State Park is the state’s busiest, with about a million day visitors every year. Extended flooding shut the park down for six months and covered parts of it with as much as 3 feet of silt this year. But it reopened Tuesday, just in time for the fall colors to start to turn.
by Tim Nelson

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