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A gang member convicted a second time in the shooting death of an 11-year-old Minneapolis girl will get a new sentence. But that sentence change won't allow him to get out of prison any time soon.
Tom Clark, a meteorologist for television station WNEP in Moosic, Penn., captured video of a tornado moving across south Minneapolis with his iPhone on August 19, 2009. Clark was visiting his daughter in Minneapolis. The storm toppled trees, damaged buildings and flooded Twin Cities highways Wednesday, though no injuries were reported.
A Minnesota organization that advocates free-market economics is organizing a symposium on global warming that questions national efforts to combat climate change.