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Oddsmakers, apparel marketers saw Favre deal coming

Oddsmakers, apparel marketers saw Favre deal coming

On day after quarterback Brett Favre signed with the Minnesota Vikings the team says it's sold thousands of single game and season tickets.
by Mark Zdechlik

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Video: Tornado in Minneapolis

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.

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Tornadoes cause damage across Twin Cities area

Tornadoes cause damage across Twin Cities area

Multiple tornadoes have been reported Wednesday afternoon across the Twin Cities area. A tornado was reported in downtown Minneapolis and a second touchdown was reported in Cottage Grove.
by Than Tibbetts

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District explains actions in teacher harassment case

The state's largest school district is trying to explain its actions in a teacher harassment case in a "letter to the community" on its Web site.
by Phil Picardi

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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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'La Boheme' performance couples music and drawings

'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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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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Polar explorer holding forum on climate change in Edina

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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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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