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Greater Minnesota

Woman returns $2,800 she found outside Moorhead McDonald's

A Minnesota woman feared someone had lost their holiday shopping money when she found an envelope stuffed with $2,800 worth of crisp $100 bills in a McDonald's parking lot in Moorhead.
by The Associated Press

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Duluth man's mission returns old photos to families

Duluth man's mission returns old photos to families

St. Louis County property manager Matt Seppo was trying to get rid of accumulated junk in a Duluth nursing home a few years ago when he came across dusty plastic bags with old photos and photo albums inside.
by The Associated Press

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Judge denies new trial for Last Place on Earth owner

Judge denies new trial for Last Place on Earth owner

A federal judge on Tuesday denied a motion for a new trial or acquittal for a Duluth head shop owner and two employees convicted in a major synthetic drug case.
by The Associated Press

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Stolen nativity figurines returned to Minn. church

Some Christmas figurines have been returned to a central Minnesota church as mysteriously as they disappeared from its nativity display.

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Feds can seize head shop owner money at sentencing

A judge will allow the federal government to seize a Duluth head shop owner's money and property once he's sentenced for selling synthetic drugs.
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Body of 2nd child recovered in SW Minn. fire

Authorities say the remains of a second child have been recovered from the scene of a farmhouse fire in southwestern Minnesota.

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PolyMet copper-nickel mine: Economic opportunity or too environmentally risky?

PolyMet copper-nickel mine: Economic opportunity or too environmentally risky?

This Friday the public will get its first peek at a long anticipated environmental study of one of the state's most controversial development projects in years: copper and nickel mining in northeastern Minnesota.
by Elizabeth Dunbar and Dan Kraker

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Mayo announces $72M hospital expansion project

Mayo announces $72M hospital expansion project

Mayo Clinic officials announced a $72.1 million expansion to parts of Saint Marys Hospital in Rochester. The project includes adding five floors to the Mary Brigh East Building and renovating the third floor of the Domitilla Building at Saint Marys Hospital, according to a news release. In all, it will add nearly 132,000 square feet Read more →
by Elizabeth Baier

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At 94, Minn. hunter still keen to get into the woods

At 94, Minn. hunter still keen to get into the woods

Paul Sersha remembers the first deer he shot, in about 1935. And he sure remembers the last deer he shot. It happened about 9:30 a.m. on opening day of Minnesota's firearms deer season this fall, sitting in his ground blind just west of Virginia.

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Minn. couple go 'Far North' to start craft distillery

Minn. couple go 'Far North' to start craft distillery

One evening, Mike Swanson poured himself a whiskey, leaned back and wondered how he and his wife could squeeze more money from grain and smooth over farming's boom-and-bust cycles. The answer came from the glass in his hand.
by Dan Gunderson

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