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August 19, 2009 6:33 AM

Free-market group to host global warming talk

A Minnesota organization that advocates free-market economics is organizing a symposium on global warming that questions national efforts to combat climate change.

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August 19, 2009 3:00 AM

'La Boheme' performance couples music and drawings

Opera fans are used to seeing subtitles at productions, but now music lovers in Duluth have the opportunity to experience a new wrinkle -- drawings.

by Euan Kerr

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August 18, 2009 5:45 PM

Police arrest last suspect in St. Paul shooting

The final suspect in last week's shooting death of a 27-year old St. Paul resident has been arrested this afternoon.

by Elizabeth Baier and Madeleine Baran

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August 18, 2009 8:41 AM

Police arrest man, search for three in St. Paul shooting

Authorities on Monday arrested a 20-year-old man and are now looking for three others in last week's shooting death of a St. Paul man.

by Elizabeth Baier

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August 18, 2009 5:00 AM

Polar explorer holding forum on climate change in Edina

Minnesota-based Polar explorer Will Steger and author Bill McKibben are teaming up for a forum on climate change in Edina Tuesday night.

by Stephanie Hemphill

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August 18, 2009 5:00 AM

Airport runway construction will bring added noise to downtown residents

Downtown Minneapolis and Highland Park neighborhood residents in St. Paul will notice more aircraft noise starting Tuesday when reconstruction of the north runway at Minneapolis-St. Paul International airports begins.

by Dan Olson

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August 18, 2009 3:00 AM

Doctors say VA care is a model of efficiency

Some say that the Department of Veteran Affairs medical care is actually an excellent example of how the government is leading on health care quality and cost.

by Lorna Benson

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August 17, 2009 5:36 PM

Mpls. man sentenced to 76 years in triple murder

The Ramsey County attorney's office says Johnny Lee Ellis Jr., 39, was sentenced Monday in the deaths of his girlfriend, her mother and her sister in October 2008.

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August 17, 2009 5:17 PM

Debate divided on gay clergy in Lutheran church

Leaders of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America are in Minneapolis this week debating many issues, most notably whether or not to allow sexually active homosexuals in committed relationships to serve as clergy.

by Martin Moylan