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Vice President Joe Biden and Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood will be in town for seperate events on Thursday.
A 4-year-old St. Paul boy remains under sedation as he and his family wait for a donated heart.
A tentative deal between Ford and the United Auto Workers could give temporary workers at the St. Paul Ranger plant the chance to become full-time employees, despite the fact that the plant is slated to close in 2011.
Attorneys for Wayzata businessman Tom Petters have renewed their request to move his trial out of Minnesota.
Allegations that a 26-year-old Chanhassen man lied about a cross-country road trip with a group of friends last week have made some Somali-Americans worry that even more young Minnesota men are still trying to join the escalating warfare in their homeland.
The Amherst H. Wilder Foundation Wednesday announced plans to cut about 200 jobs over the next nine months.
The Republicans and Democrats running for governor share similar concerns about hunger and poverty, but they're offering sharply different solutions.