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Rep. Keith Ellison will hold a forum in Minneapolis on Monday night to address concerns from local homeowners about the slow pace of loan modifications.
A single-engine plane crashed Monday afternoon a few hundred feet from an Eden Prairie neighborhood, injuring one, authorities said.
City leaders in Hugo are considering a requirement that builders offer a 'safe room' option to subdivision homeowners following a devastating tornado that ripped through the community more than a year ago.
Secretary of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack, will present a lecture at the University of Minnesota's Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs and College of Continuing Education, Monday, Oct. 5.
Rosemary Williams taking foreclosure fight to D.C.
Rosemary Williams, the Minneapolis woman whose public fight to save her foreclosed home ended last month, will travel to Washington, D.C. today to protest evictions.
Rouge and Tumble: Women's roller derby is back
They wear lipstick, tattoos and roller skates and go by tough names like "Kim Jong Kill," "Shiv & Let Die" and "Mary Tyler Roar." They race around in circles crashing into each other while the crowd cheers.
The first Twin Cities Marathon 10K will begin Saturday that will kick off the Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon Weekend.
The shadow of the 1980s still looms over a lot of pop music these days and for some of us, it's a decade we'd like to forget, but for the Minneapolis synth-pop duo Lookbook, the '80s represent a musical goldmine.