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Fewer children from abroad adopted in Minn.

The number of children Minnesotans are adopting from abroad is declining, reflecting national trends.
by Sasha Aslanian

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Graffiti found on Somali-American family's Rochester home

Graffiti found on Somali-American family's Rochester home

Muslim civil-rights advocates are asking the FBI to investigate graffiti spray-painted onto the home of a Somali-American family in Rochester.
by Laura Yuen

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Reduced lunch pay policies causing some students to go hungry

Reduced lunch pay policies causing some students to go hungry

Inconsistent and demeaning policies for students who show up in a Minnesota school cafeteria without lunch money cause too many to go away hungry, say advocates for low-income families pushing for broader subsidies for school meals.
by Madeleine Baran

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At a glance: school lunch policy

School districts set their own policies for providing food when a child's lunch account has run out of money.
by Madeleine Baran

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St. Paul residents suggest ideas to improve poor neighborhoods

St. Paul residents suggest ideas to improve poor neighborhoods

St. Paul community leaders and residents met Thursday night to try to figure out how to use a $500,000 federal grant to improve one of the city's most impoverished areas.
by Rupa Shenoy

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Obama pays somber respects at 9/11 ground zero

Obama pays somber respects at 9/11 ground zero

Marking Osama bin Laden's death where he caused his greatest damage, the president soberly laid a wreath today at New York's ground zero.

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Novelist illuminates a special time in Rome

Novelist illuminates a special time in Rome

David Bezmozgis sets his new novel "The Free World" in the late 1970s, when many Soviet Jews fleeing communist Russia ended up in Rome. There they waited to learn where they would end up: the USA, Canada, Australia, or Israel.
by Euan Kerr

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