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Copper Mining Runs Afoul of Wild Rice in Minnesota

MINNEAPOLIS -- Wild rice is sacred to the Ojibwe of Minnesota, but that may not be enough to protect it from the promise of jobs that a new copper-nickel mining industry would bring to the state. Lawmakers and business interests are working to loosen Minnesota's water quality standards to make it easier to start copper...

Dangerous Storm Threatens Thunderstorms, Tornadoes in Parts of US

The second major outbreak of dangerous thunderstorms and tornadoes is poised to sweep across parts of the United States in the coming days, following quickly on the heels of a storm that produced more than 1,800 severe weather reports earlier this week, including 66 tornado reports. The severe weather is expected to be...

Minn. Senator Objects to Religious Prayer in Senate Chamber

A debate over prayer and its place in Minnesota's state Legislature is heating up at the Capitol and it's Minnetonka's own state senator, Terri Bonoff who is at the heart of the fight. Sen. Bonoff (DFL-Minnetonka) said on Tuesday that she wants it to be not only a standard policy, but also an enforced rule, that any...

Overdose Leaves Minn. Teen Dead, 10 Hospitalized

BLAINE, Minn. -- One teen died and 10 teenagers and young adults were hospitalized Thursday after an apparent mass overdose on a designer hallucinogen at a suburban Minneapolis home, authorities said. Investigators said the state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension has identified the drug as 2C-E. It appeared the...

Bad Vibrations: Russian Bomb Squad Called to Disarm Sex Toy

A sex toy sparked a terror drill in Russia on Monday, when a bomb squad was summoned to defuse a vibrator. Anti-terrorism experts responded to a call from a post office in Petrozavodsk in the republic of Karelia, where an employee had discovered a package that was emitting a bizarre ticking noise, The Telegraph...

Background on Minnesota

Minnesota () is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state on May 11, 1858. Known as the "Land of 10,000 Lakes", the state's name comes from a Dakota word for "sky-tinted water".

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