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Walz's House seat won't be easy for DFLers to keep

The wide-open race to replace DFL U.S. House Rep. Tim Walz features eight Democrats and only one Republican, so far. But the shifting political landscape in southern Minnesota favors the GOP, and voters are restless.

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Study: Rain and snow can transport chemicals to Minnesota's lakes, rivers

A new study offers an explanation to why pharmaceuticals and other chemicals are found in remote Minnesota lakes. Research over the past decade has found drugs and chemicals like the insect repellent DEET are common in surface water.

Immigrants line up to renew work permits as program ends

After a looming Oct. 5 deadline, no one else can renew under a program that has let nearly 800,000 immigrants brought to the United States as children work even though they lack legal papers.

Rate my police officer: St. Paul police launch survey

The St. Paul Police Department wants to know how they're doing at their job -- and they're launching a survey to find out.

Minnesota fitness firm VP, friends, indicted in Chicago

A Friday statement from the U.S. attorney's office in Chicago says the suspects made nearly $900,000 in illegal profits buying shares in Life Time Fitness Inc. earlier in 2015.

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Ex-Bemidji school leader pleads guilty to child porn charges

Prosecutors say Brandon Bjerknes created a false online identity to convince young girls to send him sexually explicit photos.

Yellow wristbands, segregation for Florida homeless in Irma

In the storm's wake, homeless people and their advocates are complaining that some of them were turned away, segregated from the others, denied cots and food, deprived of medication refills and doctors' visits, or otherwise ill-treated during the evacuation.

What evil depends on: 'Good people to be quiet'

William Weaver, who helped integrate his Southern high school, recounts painful memories of football games he played with teammates he says may now wish they would have said something supportive.

Man dead in shooting outside St. Paul strip club

Officers were called to the Lamplighter Lounge about 2 a.m. Friday on a report of a shooting.

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