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White supremacist leader visiting ND town

Members of a white supremacist group plan to visit the small North Dakota town of Leith, to lend support to a man who's been buying up property there in hopes of developing a white enclave.

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Adjunct professor dies destitute, sparks debate

After 25 years of teaching French at Duquesne, the Catholic university had not renewed her contract. As a part-time professor, she had been earning about $10,000 a year, and had no health insurance.

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Survey attempts to number Detroit's stray dogs

Survey attempts to number Detroit's stray dogs

On Saturday and Sunday, volunteers will scour the city in an attempt to count the number of strays as part of an Internet documentary series. It also is seen as a first step in finding a way to humanely deal with what has become a disease and safety risk for residents as the strays breed, increasing their population even as the city's population falls.

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Minneapolis cracks down on stray cat feeding

The Minneapolis City Council Friday passed an ordinance requiring residents who care for colonies of the cats to register with a sponsoring agency. If you feed the cats, you will now have to make sure they are vaccinated, neutered and implanted with a microchip.
by Brandt Williams

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MNsure 101: Your guide

MNsure 101: Your guide

MNsure, the state's online health insurance marketplace, goes live on Oct. 1. We've created an essential guide to help you understand what MNsure is, how it affects you and your family, and how it will change your options for insurance coverage. Can you keep your doctor? We've got that covered, too.

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Chart: Child poverty stubbornly high in Minnesota

New data from the U.S. Census Bureau show Minnesota is one of only two states in which the percentage of people in poverty fell in between 2011 and 2012. But child poverty remains stubbornly high, with 14.6 percent of Minnesota children living below the poverty level.

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No change in Minnesota's child poverty rate

No change in Minnesota's child poverty rate

State demographer Susan Brower says she isn't sure why the child poverty level won't budge, even as the economy turns around. But she has a couple of possible explanations.
by Julie Siple

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Teaching your kids the value of a dollar

What's the point of an allowance? Ron Lieber, a writer for The New York Times, says it's a tool to help teach values and character traits like patience, moderation, thrift and generosity, and there are three basic ways that parents approach an allowance.

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University Of Alabama moves to integrate Greek system

University President Judy Bonner acknowledged sororities and fraternities remain segregated. "While we will not tell any group who they must pledge, the University of Alabama will not tolerate discrimination of any kind," she says.

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