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Stadium talk is back at the Minnesota Capitol. A bill providing tax exemptions and a liquor license for a proposed pro-soccer stadium has landed before the Legislature. Franchise owners hope to break ground yet this year.
 

Burnsville cops kill person with weapon in McDonald's parking lot

Burnsville's police chief declined to provide details on the suspect or weapon but said the officers involved were unharmed and wearing body cameras. State authorities are investigating.

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Crafting handmade cowboy boots the old way in northern Minnesota

In a small shop down a gravel road south of Akeley, Craig Bartels builds custom boots one foot at a time.

Warm weather triggers early ice outs on many Minnesota lakes

State climatologists say there is enough data on some state lakes to show a trend toward earlier ice out dates, indicating Minnesota's climate has changed. | Updraft

3 friars in Pennsylvania abuse case removed from duties

The Franciscan friars have been removed from their religious assignments in Minnesota and Florida. | Special report: Betrayed by Silence


 
 

Minnesota job vacancies widen as economy improves

Minnesota's ratio of unemployed people to vacancies was 1 to 1 in the final quarter of 2015 — the state's lowest job vacancy ratio in nearly 15 years, officials said Thursday. | Business

Automatic braking systems to become standard on most U.S. vehicles

Automatic brakes are designed to stop a vehicle before it collides with another object. Some 20 carmakers have agreed to make it a standard feature on nearly all new cars in the U.S. by 2022.

A St. Patrick's poem on shamrocks and stereotypes

"All that mindlessness, shouting and getting plain stocious / That isn't Irish, that's simply atrocious," writes author and Irish expatriate Frank Delaney in "Drowning the Shamrock."

Listen: Folk trio The Pines play songs off their new album 'Above the Prairie'

Twin Cities folk trio The Pines joined MPR News host Tom Weber the Maud Moon Weyerhauser studio for some conversation and music. David Huckfelt and brothers Benson and Alex Ramsey played songs off their new album "Above the Prairie."

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