Temperatures will continue to fall over the next few days

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Metro highs in the mid 30s with nighttime lows in the upper 20s. Statewide highs in the mid 20s to lower 30s.

St. Paul leaders gathered last night after yet another homicide in the city. 

Police Chief Todd Axtell says he’s working with federal officials to prevent future gun violence.

Twin Cities Muslim leaders are calling for hate crime charges

 after a Somali-American man was allegedly attacked in a Minneapolis suburb last week. Forty-nine-year-old Haarun Galbayte, of Eden Prairie, said on Oct. 27, he made a morning food delivery at a home in Excelsior and returned to his car. As he was about to drive away, 

a man came out, punched him several times in the head while yelling at him to go back to his country

, Minnesota’s recreational marijuana industry could be $1.2 billion in just its first five years. One expert in the field says that means 20,000 jobs and $300 million in tax revenues.

There’s plenty to do, and as MPR News’ Mike Moen writes, exercise in the cold can 

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