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Good morning! Mostly cloudy and chilly again today, with highs in the 50s and low 60s. Well, consider yourselves warned. For the second weekend in a row, Interstate 35W from downtown Minneapolis to Highway 62 is closing from Friday night through Monday morning. Hope you liked that detour from last weekend. The good news is that this weekend won't be as action-packed. | Forecast
Photos: Lynx win a decisive victory, thrilling fans
It's the Lynx's fourth league title in seven years, tying them with with the WNBA's first dynasty, the now-defunct Houston Comets. | NewsCut: A championship, champagne, and the boss
Clues few and elusive for motive of Las Vegas gunman

Stephen Paddock led such a low-key, private life that no one seemed to know him well, and those who did had no sense he was capable of the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history. | Some in GOP open to banning gun accessory used in Vegas

At a concert, find the exits; then enjoy yourself

Experts say there are some steps you can take to make yourself safer when bad things happen. | Minnesota vigils remember dead in Las Vegas

5 years after flood, lone road through Jay Cooke state park reopens

Massive flooding in 2012 washed out more than 70 sections of state Highway 210 through the park south of Duluth. After five years of construction, it's finally reopened, just in time for fall colors.

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Some parents push to remake school board elections in Osseo

The district serves kids from a wide swath of incomes and backgrounds, but its board is made up largely of people from mostly white, mostly well-off Maple Grove. Some advocates want to divide up the board by geography.

Minn., N.D. governors announce group to help resolve flood control dispute

The governors of Minnesota and North Dakota announced that they are forming a task force in the hopes of getting a flood control project for the Fargo-Moorhead area back on track.

Art Hounds: Film and photography expose environmental damage

This week, the Art Hounds recommend an exhibition at Nash Gallery, a choral festival and a silent movie set to live music.

Kazuo Ishiguro wins Nobel Prize for Literature

The Swedish Academy cited him for "novels of great emotional force, (he) has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world."

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