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Soccer club connects immigrant teens to their favorite sport

Soccer club connects immigrant teens to their favorite sport

Poverty, isolation and a lack of organized activities are some of the main reasons African immigrant teens in the Twin Cities are drawn to gangs and crime. A St. Paul group is addressing these problems as a team -- a soccer team.
by Chris Roberts

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Latinos 'Aqui Nos Quedamos'

Los Latinos empezaron a llegar al condado de Todd hace mas de una decada, principalmente para tomar trabajos dificiles y relativamente bajos de sueldo, procesando carne. Ahora son mas de mil personas.
by Jennifer Vogel

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Advocates say Minn. slow in modernizing crosswalks for the disabled

Advocates say Minn. slow in modernizing crosswalks for the disabled

The 20-year-old Americans with Disabilities Act requires transportation officials to make conditions safer at crosswalks. But in Minnesota, advocates say compliance has been slow.
by Dan Olson

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Hmong families, MPD struggle to communicate

Hmong families, MPD struggle to communicate

Responding to a growing need, Hmong teenagers in north Minneapolis are spearheading an effort to help their families communicate better with police.
by Rupa Shenoy

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For more children, dinner is coming from Uncle Sam

For more children, dinner is coming from Uncle Sam

More low-income school kids could soon have access to free nutritious dinners, because of a U.S. Department of Agriculture program that provides reimbursements for the suppers at schools in 13 states, including Wisconsin.

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White flight? Suburbs lose young whites to cities

White flight? In a reversal, America's suburbs are now more likely to be home to minorities, the poor and a rapidly growing older population as many younger, educated whites move to cities for jobs and shorter commutes.

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St. Cloud professor unearths history of slavery in Minnesota

St. Cloud professor unearths history of slavery in Minnesota

A St. Cloud State University professor has found evidence of slavery in several Minnesota counties before the Civil War. Among them was Slyvanus Lowry, St. Cloud's first mayor.
by Ambar Espinoza

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Leech Lake, White Earth plan treaty rights event

Ojibwe band members will highlight their claim to treaty-based hunting and fishing rights by staging two separate events in Bemidji May 14, a day before the state's walleye fishing opener.
by Tom Robertson

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Big thinkers on children's brain development

Big thinkers on children's brain development

Psychologist Alison Gopnik says that scientists have learned more about the brains of young children in the last thirty years than they had in the previous two thousand. Also segments from the TED Twin Cities conference held at the Science Museum Wednesday on new ideas being tried in Minnesota to promote child development.

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