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Statewide Blog

Around MN: lost Hope

Hope, the Internet-famous Ely bear, is missing and feared dead
by Michael Olson

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Around MN: BWCA fire approach defended, Lynx roll, head shop to resume “bath salt” sales

"Knowing now what happened over the last 20 days, if we had known that back then, we would have done things differently," said Mark Van Every, district ranger for the western part of the Superior National Forest.
by Michael Olson

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Around MN: Goodbye Iran, fake pot raid, the rise of Romney

"We've lost a ton of business, Ya know, well over, well over $10,000 a day in incense" -- Jim Carlson, owner Last Place on Earth, on what a police raid means for store sales.
by Michael Olson

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Goodbye Iran

Goodbye Iran

The crisis of the American hikers imprisoned in Iran ended today. Here's what we know.
by Paul Tosto

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Around MN: Fire fizzles, online students falling behind

The Pagami Creek fire in the Boundary Waters is 23 percent contained, area residents question the approach to the fire.
by Michael Olson

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Minn. Children’s Museum to open in Rochester

Minn. Children’s Museum to open in Rochester

(Photo courtesy Minnesota Children’s Museum) The Minnesota Children’s Museum has announced it will open a satellite museum in Rochester in early 2012. The opening will make the MCM one of the few children’s museums in the country to open a second location, according to museum officials. “Opening a second museum in Rochester will allow MCM…
by Elizabeth Baier

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Corn disease spreads in Minnesota

University of Minnesota extension plant pathologist Dean Malvick says reports of the Gross's leaf blight have increased 'dramatically' this year in the state
by Mark Steil

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Around MN: Cutting a line in the Pagami Creek fire

Crews endured sleet and snow as they continue to battle the largest fire in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area in decades.
by Michael Olson

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Food shelves seek younger volunteers

Food shelves seek younger volunteers

Food shelves aim to recruit more young people to volunteer alongside seniors Dennis Weeks couldn’t be happier with the volunteers at the Manna Food Pantry in Worthington, Minn. There’s just one problem: They’re getting old. “Five to 10 years from now, my current crop of volunteers will all be gone,” said Weeks, who worries about…
by Julie Siple

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