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Morning Edition, with Cathy Wurzer in St. Paul and NPR hosts in Washington and Los Angeles, brings you all the news from overnight and the information you need to start your day. Listen from 4 to 9 a.m. every weekday.

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Better goaltending has Wild on a winning binge

Better goaltending has Wild on a winning binge

The Minnesota Wild continued their stellar play of late Thursday with a victory over the Florida Panthers 2-1 at the Xcel Energy Center.

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Minnesota rides the temperature roller coaster

Minnesota rides the temperature roller coaster

MPR's Cathy Wurzer spoke with University of Minnesota Climatologist Mark Seeley about recent up-and-down temperatures across Minnesota.

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Living a love story cut short by ALS

Living a love story cut short by ALS

Far from having their marriage damaged by illness, Bruce Kramer and Ev Emerson have found a new intimacy.
by Cathy Wurzer

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Fix-it clinics bring the broken to life -- and cut waste

Fix-it clinics bring the broken to life -- and cut waste

Coon Rapids is one of the latest Minnesota communities to try to cut waste -- and build community -- by fixing household items.
by Sasha Aslanian

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Scott McCloud explores love, art and death in graphic novel

Scott McCloud explores love, art and death in graphic novel

In his new graphic novel "The Sculptor," artist Scott McCloud proves that comics can be more than about guys in tights.
by Euan Kerr

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Celebrating George Morrison, the founder of Native modernism

Celebrating George Morrison, the founder of Native modernism

Artist George Morrison was born in an American Indian fishing village near Lake Superior, but his art career took him all around the world.
by Cathy Wurzer

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Key question in MN terror case: Can the radicalized be rehabilitated?

Key question in MN terror case: Can the radicalized be rehabilitated?

A Twin Cities judge has sent a terror suspect to a halfway house and counseling, not jail, pending trial. Counterterrorism experts are watching the experiment closely.
by Laura Yuen

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Judge blocks autopsies of two Ojibwe members killed in crashes

Judge blocks autopsies of two Ojibwe members killed in crashes

After the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe and the Fond du Lac Band objected to two planned autopsies, Judge Robert Macaulay ordered Medical Examiner Thomas Uncini to release the bodies.
by Dan Kraker

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Ohio Players found formula for success with 'Fire'

"Fire" was the first No. 1 song for the Ohio Players.

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