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Video: Foraging for wild mushrooms, finding something more

Video: Foraging for wild mushrooms, finding something more

Mike Kempenich forages for wild mushrooms all around Minnesota, which he then sells to chefs in the Twin Cities. In the process of finding mushrooms and teaching others to find them, he found something of his own.
by Jennifer Simonson

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Tons of corn, free for all

Tons of corn, free for all

Cow chip throwing, tractor pulling, fun runs and a street dance were capped off by a free all-you-can-eat corn feed and a parade on Sunday, Aug. 17, 2014 at the Plainview Corn on the Cob Days festival. The crowd went through seven tons of corn in four hours.
by Alex Kolyer

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Chaotic scene captured in Ferguson, Mo.

Chaotic scene captured in Ferguson, Mo.

Residents in Ferguson, Mo., have complained about what they called a heavy-handed police presence that began with the use of dogs for crowd control soon after Brown's shooting -- a tactic that for some invoked the specter of civil rights protests a half-century ago.

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Good buzz: U researchers find hope in the thriving urban bee

Good buzz: U researchers find hope in the thriving urban bee

Rooftop bees here hold important clues to the long-term health of the bee population in Minnesota, one of the nation's top honey producing states. The trends appear to show that survival rates and honey production for urban and suburban bees outpace their cousins in farm country, where swaths of bee habitat once flush with nectar and pollen-rich plants have been plowed under.
by Dan Olson

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Minnesotans go to the polls for 2014 primary

Minnesotans go to the polls for 2014 primary

Minnesotans -- at least a few of them, anyway -- will take a short break from summer to tend to Tuesday's primary election.

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Photos: Supermoon around the world

Photos: Supermoon around the world

This was the second of three supermoons that will take place this year. It's also the one that will bring the moon's orbit closest to Earth, something that's called its perigee.

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Garlic festival highlights growers -- and eaters

Garlic festival highlights growers -- and eaters

The Minnesota Garlic Festival description is as the "premier event for lovers of garlic," and there was garlic everywhere -- being eaten, worn and judged. Saturday in Hutchinson at the McLeod County Fairgrounds, brave souls even sampled the garlic ice cream.
by Jennifer Simonson

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Slain police officer is laid to rest

Slain police officer is laid to rest

A photo gallery captures the community outpouring for the funeral and burial of Officer Scott Patrick.

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Run, log roll, saw, fish, eat, compete in Grand Marais

Run, log roll, saw, fish, eat, compete in Grand Marais

Competition, food, music, arts and water came together for the 85th annual Fisherman's Picnic in Grand Marais. Runners, log rollers, lumberjacks, fisherman and herring eaters all competed on the shores of Lake Superior.
by Judy Griesedieck

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