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Family of 5 dead in Lake Minnetonka home; murder-suicide suspected

Family of 5 dead in Lake Minnetonka home; murder-suicide suspected

Police on Lake Minnetonka found a family of five dead Thursday afternoon in an apparent murder-suicide. The dead are Brian Short, Karen Short, and their three teen children: Cole, Brooklyn and Madison, according to a family member.
by Brandt Williams and Matt Sepic

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Dayton to demand Mille Lacs open for walleye ice fishing

Dayton to demand Mille Lacs open for walleye ice fishing

Dayton left no doubt Thursday that the premier lake would have a winter season after the summer fishing season got suspended early.
by Tom Scheck

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Art Hounds: David Petersen Gallery and classical Indian music

Art Hounds: David Petersen Gallery and classical Indian music

This week on Art Hounds, a visit to David Petersen Gallery in Minneapolis, remembering a "Life of Beauty" in Duluth and an evening of classical Indian music in Bloomington.
by Marianne Combs

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Appetites: A bumper crop in store for Minnesota's apple orchards

Appetites: A bumper crop in store for Minnesota's apple orchards

We can thank the relatively cool summer and even temperatures for what's certain to be an abundant harvest, says cookbook author Beth Dooley.
by Tom Crann

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Legal system churns as Dru Sjodin's killer appeals death sentence

Legal system churns as Dru Sjodin's killer appeals death sentence

Nine years after Alfonso Rodriguez Jr. received the death sentence for abducting and murdering the 22-year-old college student, his lawyers are still working to keep him alive. The latest effort came Wednesday.
by Dan Gunderson

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Climate change affects lakes, walleye in complex ways

Climate change affects lakes, walleye in complex ways

A complicated web of relationships among the species in a lake makes simple explanations hard to come by.
by Elizabeth Dunbar

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Hallberg's Picture of Health: The meningitis vaccine

The annual return to school heralds another rite of passage for adolescents: the meningitis vaccine.

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Convicted priest wants to buy St. Paul chancery, aid sex abuse victims

Convicted priest wants to buy St. Paul chancery, aid sex abuse victims

The Rev. Gilbert Gustafson, a priest convicted of child sex abuse, is behind a new effort to buy the Twin Cities archdiocese headquarters and turn it into a healing center for abuse survivors.
by Madeleine Baran

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Minnesota pheasant numbers jump; long-term worries remain

Minnesota pheasant numbers jump; long-term worries remain

Good weather conditions have pushed Minnesota pheasant numbers 33 percent higher this year compared to 2014, the DNR says. Habit loss, however, remains a big concern for the birds' future.
by Elizabeth Dunbar

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