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Brewing now: a debate over the merits of the Stillwater bridge request. While U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann is joined by unlikely bedfellows including Sen. Al Franken and Gov. Mark Dayton in support for a new Stillwater bridge, her calls to cut government spending appear to contradict the $700 million request.

Representative Michele Bachmann, the conservative Republican running for president, has little in common, ideologically, with her fellow Minnesotan, Senator Al Franken, a Democrat.  But when it comes to fighting for federal approval of a big bridge project -- in this case, a $700 million freeway-style span over the St. Croix River between Minnesota and Wisconsin -- they are joined at the hip (

Second Minnesota SEAL killed on copter always gave his all

John Faas, a redheaded kid from Minneapolis, was just a big sweetheart with a smile that radiated from his eyes. So those who knew him well thought the idea that he wanted to be a Navy SEAL was hard to imagine (

Airstrike kills Afghan Taliban militants who downed helicopter

The commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan says an airstrike has killed the militants responsible for last week's helicopter crash that killed 38 Americans and Afghans (

With three sets scheduled for this weekend's 32nd annual 

Minnesota Bluegrass & Old Time Music Festival

 in Richmond, 19-year-old Sierra Hull is ready to show the Minnesota bluegrass community how a modest Berklee College of Music grad picks the mandolin (

Study: Minnesota, Wisconsin adding to kill zone in Gulf of Mexico

Minnesota and Wisconsin are contributing an increasing share of the Mississippi River pollution that is killing a wide swath of the Gulf of Mexico. Nitrogen flowing into the river from the two states has increased 75 percent over the past two decades (

Iron-ore co. with Cargill tie inks power deal

Magnetation, a company with new technology for producing iron from used ore, recently entered a joint venture with Cargill and plans to open its new plant in northern Minnesota in May (

Minneapolis soldier gets life sentence for murders

An Army sergeant from Minneapolis was sentenced on Wednesday to life in a military prison without parole for shooting and killing his infantry squad leader and another U.S. soldier in Iraq after they criticized him for poor performance (

Al Franken: Maybe the Treasury Department should have supported my bill against ratings agencies (

Minn. counties to pay more for sex offender treatment

Up until recently the state had been paying 90 percent of that with counties paying 10 percent.Under the new formula that percentage will be bumped up to 25 percent.It's a cost shift that legislators argue, will save the state more than $2 million a year (

Few other locations, once "spoiled" by human intervention, carry such a reputation as now being unspoiled by human intervention (

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