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Photo gallery: Pouring molten iron into art

Photo gallery: Pouring molten iron into art

When you handle molten iron in a blazing furnace nearing 2,500 degrees, "you have to kind of know what you are doing." Wayne Potratz made that point clear as he and his students Friday transformed liquid metal into art at the University of Minnesota's foundry. It was the art department's 45th Annual Iron Pour, an event that turns the foundry into a friendly, Hades kind of a place.

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Duluth's roads need work, but city needs money first

Duluth's roads need work, but city needs money first

Duluth drivers wait for the city's decision on how to plug a four-year budget hole that's tearing up the streets.
by Dan Kraker

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Photos: See the 'blood moon' eclipse

Photos: See the 'blood moon' eclipse

Sky gazers the world over are craning their necks in an effort to get a glimpse of the total eclipse of the moon -- the first visible from North America since 2010. This eclipse was a "blood moon," which looks the color of a desert sunset because of filtered light seeping around the Earth and reflecting off the moon's surface.

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Southwire performs live in the studio

Southwire performs live in the studio

The Duluth-based band defies easy description.
by Marc Sanchez

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Photos: A different kind of triple play on opening day at Target Field

Photos: A different kind of triple play on opening day at Target Field

Spring arrived in Minnesota at the same time as baseball and the hope of a new season. While Minnesota Twins fans flocked to Target Field for the home opener, photojournalist Jeffrey Thompson tried a new way to capture the mood of the new season.
by Jeffrey Thompson

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Video: Watch April snow melt, in 45 seconds

Video: Watch April snow melt, in 45 seconds

The seven inches of April snow that fell last week in St. Paul, Minn. didn't take long to melt with above average temperatures this weekend.
by Jeffrey Thompson

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Photos: Fat bikers look for a winter trail

Photos: Fat bikers look for a winter trail

The attraction snowmobile trails hold for fat bikers is starting to cause problems between them and snowmobilers.

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Photos: Powwow season kicks off in Minneapolis

Photos: Powwow season kicks off in Minneapolis

American Indian dancers, young and old, gather for the 6th Annual Traditional Powwow at Augsburg College in Minneapolis, Minn.
by Nikki Tundel

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Choo Choo Bob explains the Southwest light rail line conundrum

Choo Choo Bob explains the Southwest light rail line conundrum

Building light rail lines is a tough way to make friends. The Metropolitan Council has spent the last year looking for a way to make everyone along the planned Southwest light rail line happy. But everything the planners propose makes someone upset.
by Curtis Gilbert and Molly Bloom

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Rare legal twist pits one diocese against another

Rare legal twist pits one diocese against another

The Diocese of New Ulm is suing another diocese and a religious order, accusing both of sending a priest to New Ulm in the early 1980s without telling the diocese that the priest had a long history of being accused of child sexual abuse.
by Trisha Volpe

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