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St. Louis Park works to clean up another water main break

St. Louis Park works to clean up another water main break

An evaluation is planned after two water main breaks in one neighborhood impact residents.

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Family, friends demand answers on anniversary of police killing Winston Smith in Mpls

Family, friends demand answers on anniversary of police killing Winston Smith in Mpls

Dozens of community members showed up at Powderhorn Recreation Center in south Minneapolis on Friday afternoon to support 32-year-old Smith’s family, who still have little in the way of details about what transpired when police killed him a year ago. 
by Grace Birnstengel

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Scuba diver dies after being pulled from Lake Minnetonka

Scuba diver dies after being pulled from Lake Minnetonka

Officials began using sonar to look for the man, but a fellow diver found his body just 30 feet from his last known location.
by Kaila White

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Duluth City Councilor Renee Van Nett dies at age 52

Duluth City Councilor Renee Van Nett dies at age 52

Duluth City Councilor Renee Van Nett, the first Native American woman elected to the Duluth council, died Friday after a brief battle with cancer. Duluth’s mayor called her “an incredibly powerful woman who lived life with clarity and purpose.”
by MPR News Staff

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'Pure devastation': Rainy Lake residents fill sandbags, fight exhaustion as floodwaters rise

'Pure devastation': Rainy Lake residents fill sandbags, fight exhaustion as floodwaters rise

About 250 homes have suffered some sort of damage on the south shore of Rainy Lake, east of International Falls on the Minnesota-Canadian border. It’s a slow-motion crisis that may not start to ebb until mid to late June.
by Dan Kraker

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From one tornado-ravaged Minnesota town to another, a message of hope

From one tornado-ravaged Minnesota town to another, a message of hope

As the residents of one small Minnesota town pick up the pieces of homes and lives shattered by Monday's storms, residents of another town who are walking that path have a hopeful message.
by Tim Nelson

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Weather Service confirms several tornadoes touched down Monday in Minnesota

Weather Service confirms several tornadoes touched down Monday in Minnesota

Confirmed tornadoes included one with 120 mph winds that damaged dozens of homes in the small town of Forada, near Alexandria. There were no reports of serious injuries or deaths from Monday's storms.
by Mathew Holding Eagle III, Andrew Krueger and Tim Nelson

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