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Super Bowl will bring closed roads, detours

The Super Bowl is less than a month away.
by Tom Weber

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Block party: St. Paul ice palace starts to rise

Block party: St. Paul ice palace starts to rise

Workers swung a 700-pound chunk of ice into place Tuesday in St. Paul's Rice Park, the first of about 4,000 blocks that will build an ice palace to warm Winter Carnival-goers and woo Super Bowl visitors.
by Tim Nelson

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'Least desirable'? How racial discrimination plays out in online dating

'Least desirable'? How racial discrimination plays out in online dating

Research shows that online dating coincided with an increase in interracial marriages. But some dating app users say that Asian men and black women can still have a tougher time finding love online.
by Ashley Brown

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The worst words of 2017

Why is it that some words or phrases catch on quicker than others? Linguist Anatoly Liberman analyzed trends from 2017 and their origins.
by Kerri Miller

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Super Bowl street closures begin in Minneapolis

Super Bowl street closures begin in Minneapolis

The road closures around U.S. Bank stadium come more than a month before the big game.
by Tim Nelson

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Hundreds take plunge into frigid Lake Minnetonka on New Year's Day

Hundreds take plunge into frigid Lake Minnetonka on New Year's Day

Bitter-cold weather wasn't enough to stop hundreds of people from taking a plunge into Lake Minnetonka on New Year's Day.

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Definition mission: A rhyming limerick for each English word

Definition mission: A rhyming limerick for each English word

The Omnificent English Dictionary in Limerick Form (or OEDILF for short) has published more than 97,000 rhyming definitions since Chris Strolin started it in 2004.
by The Associated Press

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