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Photos: Rain can't dampen Cinco de Mayo in St. Paul

Photos: Rain can't dampen Cinco de Mayo in St. Paul

A dreary day didn't stop the annual Cinco de Mayo parade and festival in St. Paul on Saturday, with its traditional dancers, food and other attractions.
by Nikki Tundel

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Minnesota Scenes: Your April

Minnesota Scenes: Your April

By this time of year we'd hoped to be taking your photos of spring breaking out all over. But endless winter was on a lot of peoples' minds.

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Photos: May winter storm dumps record snow on SE Minn.

Photos: May winter storm dumps record snow on SE Minn.

A rare May snow storm has dropped more than a foot of snow in some areas of Minnesota, making the morning commute an ordeal and knocking out power in some communities.

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Photos: Fargo and Moorhead, before and during flooding

Photos: Fargo and Moorhead, before and during flooding

Even though the 2013 Red River flood is not as severe as the National Weather Service initially forecasted, it still made for dramatic images.

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Photos: Fargo's 'Sandbag Central' volunteers reflect on flood fight

Photos: Fargo's 'Sandbag Central' volunteers reflect on flood fight

More than 8,350 volunteers put in 43,971 hours over 16 days at Fargo's Sandbag Central to churn out sandbags in 2013. Photographer Ann Arbor Miller asked volunteers working at Sandbag Central last week for their insight on flood season. Volunteers wrote their thoughts on an empty sandbag with a black marker.
by Ann Arbor Miller

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Art Heroes photos: Roger and DeAnna Cummings at Juxtaposition Arts

Art Heroes photos: Roger and DeAnna Cummings at Juxtaposition Arts

Roger and DeAnna Cummings founded Juxtaposition Arts in 1995 and continue to teach and train young people in the arts while employing them as apprentices to work alongside professional artists. They were photographed outside the Juxtaposition Arts gallery space near West Broadway and Emerson avenues N. in Minneapolis Tuesday, Apr. 23, 2013.
by Jennifer Simonson

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Photos: First warm spring day brings people outdoors

Photos: First warm spring day brings people outdoors

It was a long wait, but Minnesotans were rewarded today with a sunny, warm day that actually felt like spring. And many took advantage of the chance to get outside and enjoy the weather. Our photographers captured some of those scenes.

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Photos: Fargo flood fighters stack sandbags ahead of Red River's rise

Photos: Fargo flood fighters stack sandbags ahead of Red River's rise

While the Red River is expected to crest just below 38 feet next week at Fargo-Moorhead, sandbag dikes are being constructed to protect to 40 feet.

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Photos: Fargo's sand, clay and dirt flood walls

Photos: Fargo's sand, clay and dirt flood walls

Residents in Fargo and Moorhead are building dikes to protect against a possible record flood. But the late spring melt is reducing the flood risk, say forecasters at the National Weather Service.
by Nathaniel Minor

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Photos: Manhunt in Massachusetts for Boston Marathon bombing suspects

Photos: Manhunt in Massachusetts for Boston Marathon bombing suspects

After a car chase and shootout with police, one suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, was shot and killed by police early April 19, and a manhunt was underway for his brother and second suspect, 19-year-old suspect Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev. The two men, reportedly of Chechen origin, are suspects in the bombings at the Boston Marathon on April 15 that killed three people and wounded at least 170. The police captured Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on Friday in Watertown, Mass.

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