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Good afternoon! Look in the sky tonight and you might get a show. A geomagnetic storm may deliver a potentially awesome northern lights display the next couple of nights across Minnesota. If you need a definition, the aurora is a "luminous glow of the upper atmosphere caused by energetic particles entering the atmosphere from above," according to the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. You can just call it "ooh" and "ah" tonight and Friday. | Forecast
 

Students get notice Regency Beauty Institute immediately closing 79 campuses

In a statement posted to the school's website, the company said "the organization does not have the cash to continue to run the business."

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Train crashes into Hoboken, N.J., terminal, killing 1, injuring scores of people

Gov. Chris Christie says one person was killed after a train approached the platform at a high rate of speed and crashed through barriers. The roof of Hoboken Terminal has partially collapsed.

When Mrs. Eisele took Manhattan: Big city failed to awe Minnesota journalist

In 1936, Country Home magazine sent its "rural correspondent of the year" Susan Eisele on a trip to NYC. With a 6-week-old in tow, she soaked up the city and hit it off with hard-bitten newspapermen.

Minneapolis panel greenlights filming of controversial HBO drama

The TV network says "Mogadishu, Minnesota" will be a financial boost for the area while portraying lives of Twin Cities Somali Americans, but opponents of the series worry it will cast a bad light on the community | Previously: Protests break out in Minneapolis over HBO production


 
 

'Cup Noodles' turns 45: A closer look at the revolutionary ramen creation

Today instant ramen is consumed in at least 80 countries -- with culturally specific adaptations. The U.S., for instance, gets shorter noodles, because Americans don't slurp them up like the Japanese.

Wells Fargo CEO faces more criticism from lawmakers

In his opening remarks, Stumpf refused to accept the contentions made by Sen. Elizabeth Warren and others - that the bank's cross-selling incentives were to blame for the scandal. | Wells Fargo's unauthorized accounts likely hurt customers' credit scores

Early votes: High interest buoys Clinton in key states

More people are seeking or casting early ballots in the critical states of North Carolina and Florida than at this point in 2012, with Hillary Clinton the likely beneficiary, as early voting shows signs of surging nationwide. | Election 2016

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