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Mpls police chief blames economy for recruit layoffs
Twenty Minneapolis Police officers graduated from the academy on Thursday, and the new officers will hit the streets this weekend. But by the end of next week, they'll be out of work because police department will lay off the officers because it can't afford to pay their salaries.
Several emergency homeless shelters could open in the next few weeks in St. Paul, as shelter providers and local officials mount a response to the dramatic increase in the number of homeless adults seeking shelter.
The Minnesota Council of Churches and the Muslim American Society of Minnesota are trying to get Christians and Muslim to view each other as friends and neighbors.
A slew of positive economic signs could bode well for state job numbers coming out Thursday.
Gophers prepared for strong competition at NCAA volleyball tourney
The University of Minnesota Gopher women's volleyball team is in Tampa Thursday for the NCAA Final Four. The Gophers, who were seeded 11th in the tournament, take on the number two seed Texas.
Mpls FBI head ramps up outreach to Somalis
The head of the FBI's Minneapolis division says the U.S. is seeing a new era of homegrown extremism, especially among Somali immigrants. Boelter told MPR News that Somali-American community leaders need to more clearly denounce extremist ideology.
In the 1950s, passengers flew the skies in style
Tom Crann talked with Anne Billinglsey Kerr about her life as a stewardess -- as they all were called then -- in the 1950s and the book she wrote about her experiences.
A cougar seems to be making its way across the northern Twin Cities suburbs toward the wilder parts of the St. Croix River.
The story behind the story of two wayward pilots sheds a disturbing light on the nation's air traffic control system.
Energy producers finding ways to fill Big Stone II gap
It's been about a month since we learned the proposed Big Stone II power plant won't be built, and it's not clear what's going to replace the electricity it was supposed to generate.