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Rare Superman Comic Found In House Insulation
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- It’s considered the Holy Grail of comic books: Action Comics No. 1 from 1938, featuring the debut of Superman. And David Gonzales found one mixed in with old newspapers insulating a wall in a house he was renovating in a small town in Minnesota. Gonzalez did some research that confirmed the comic was valuable, though not as much as it could have been. He got into a ...
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Crews Recover Body From Mississippi River
ST. PAUL, Minn. (WCCO) – Crews say they have pulled a body from the Mississippi River near the Ford Dam south of the Minneapolis and St. Paul downtown areas. A spokesperson from the Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office said that the Ramsey County Water Patrol assisted Minneapolis Fire and the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office in recovering the body. They responded to the scene at ...
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Birdman Flying High For The Heat
MIAMI (CBSMiami) – While the majority of the focus of the thrilling Heat victory in Game 1 will be on LeBron James’ incredible play at the end of the game, there’s another player who was just as key to the Heat getting the win to open the series: Chris Andersen. Andersen set a career high with field goals made and points by going 7-7 and scoring 16 points in the Heat’s ...
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Minnesota loan program targets American Indian entrepreneurs
A Red Lake tribal member has opened a new restaurant in Bemidji with the help of a little-known state loan program targeting American Indian entrepreneurs. Given the high rates of high school dropouts and unemployment on the reservation, Marv Hanson hopes to be a role model for American Indians who want to start their own businesses. Hanson started The Marvelous Fish House and Market in ...
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Charges 2 Minnesotans others filed 1000-plus returns totaling $6.9M in refunds
Two Minnesotans are among four men charged with creating false identification information and bogus tax-preparation businesses, then conspiring with others to file more than 1,000 federal returns that gushed out nearly $7 million in ...
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Students mourn mudslide victims Dayton visits school today
Students at Peter Hobart Elementary School huddled around a memorial of flowers, teddy bears and balloons Friday morning, paying tribute to two students who died in a mudslide while on a class field ...
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Wis. Gov. Walker Touts State Ties During Trip To Iowa
WEST DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – Wisconsin’s Republican governor, Scott Walker, is introducing himself to Iowa Republicans as would-be presidential candidates often do — as one of their own. Walker tells about 600 of the GOP faithful at a party fundraising banquet in a Des Moines suburb that he spent his childhood in Iowa. That connection could help when saying hello to the ...
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Taconite Tax Will Help Pay For Iron Range Schools
DULUTH, Minn. (AP) – A Minnesota taconite iron ore tax increase will be used to rebuild and retool Iron Range schools. The 10 cent-a-ton tax increase was included in the state Legislature’s final omnibus tax bill signed into law by Gov. Mark Dayton Thursday. The per-ton tax increases to $2.56. The funding for school construction and improvement projects will be available through ...
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Minnesota Vikings new punter Jeff Locke a social crusader in his own right
< 200){ requestedWidth = 200; } Let us get this out of the way first, since the two will be linked and compared for as long as punter controversies somehow manage to captivate the public: Jeff Locke is not Chris Kluwe. The Vikings' rookie punter, like the one he is replacing, is a UCLA product. Locke graduated with a 3.885 grade-point average in economics; Kluwe turned down Harvard ...
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Colabello grateful after taking wild path to Majors
"It was everything I could've imagined it to be," said Chris Colabello of his Major League debut on Wednesday. (AP) DETROIT -- Chris Colabello never thought it would be easy. Not after all the hard work he put in playing seven years in the independent Canadian-American League without any clear path to the big leagues. So when a car crashed into Triple-A Rochester's team bus ...
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Organization Tips For Your Spring Cleaning
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Spring is finally in the air and a lot of people are gearing up for some good old fashioned spring cleaning. While you’re doing that, it’s a good time to get organized, which can be especially difficult if you have children. ';Organization is about saving time, money and convenience,'; home expert and mom of two Brianne Bauer said. Bauer shared ...
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Gov. Dayton To Address School Community After Landslide Tragedy
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) - Gov. Mark Dayton announced Friday morning he plans to address the students, faculty, staff and community members at Peter Hobart Elementary School following the tragic events that took place earlier this week involving four students. Two students were killed and two others were hurt while a group of fourth graders were at Lilydale Regional Park in St. Paul looking for ...
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Minnesota solar energy standard signed by Mark Dayton
Minnesota's investor-owned utilities will be required to get 1.5 percent of their power from solar energy by 2020 under legislation signed by Gov. Mark Dayton. The solar energy standard also sets a statewide goal of reaching 10 percent by 2030. The proposal was championed by the Minnesota Clean Energy and Jobs campaign. The coalition says the law takes Minnesota farther down the road to a ...
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Washington Bridge Collapse Hits Close To Home For Minnesotans
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — We’re following the latest developments Friday morning on a story that touches very close to home for Minnesotans. A portion of a bridge on a busy interstate in Washington state collapsed Thursday, sending two cars into the water below. It happened about an hour north of Seattle on Interstate 5. Investigators are working to try to figure out what caused a ...
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Minnesotans to start paying Amazon tax
Minnesotans will have to start paying online taxes come July. Well, they have to already. But come July, they will actually do it. Thats the result of the new regulations that will apply Minnesota's 6.875 percent sales tax to big e-commerce sites such as Amazon.com, part of the states new omnibus tax law, according to the Pioneer Press. Minnesotas big retailers, such as Target and Best Buy, ...
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Jail owner hopes to lock up filmmakers before building apartments
The owner of the former St. Louis County Jail in Duluth still wants to convert the property into living space, but he hopes to lock up a few filmmakers first. The Duluth News Tribune reports on the role the vacant jail will play in the upcoming Duluth Superior Film Festival. Grant Carlson, who owns the jail, wants to hold a reception there in the hopes of staging film shoots there. In the long ...
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$30M bioenergy facility planned for Twin Cities
Rendering company Sanimax is planning to build a $30 million facility that would turn food waste into natural gas and compost. Finance & Commerce has details on the plan, a venture of Montreal-based Sanimax (which has a presence in South St. Paul, where the facility would be located) and Green Energy Partners of Denmark, Wis. The natural gas produced by the plant would be used to power the ...
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Minnesota resorts expect stronger summer than 2012
After a long winter, Minnesota's tourism businesses are betting that state residents are eager for summer. The Pioneer Press reports that 84 percent of Minnesota resorts and campgrounds expect the 2013 summer season to be as good or better than last year. Nearly half predict higher revenues, according to state tourism agency Explore Minnesota. One thing that could put a damper on ...
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Fallon could get verdict on Cadillac account soon
2013 Cadillac ATS Minneapolis-based Fallon Worldwide, which this week collected an industry Effie award for its 2012 Cadillac ad, will soon find out if it'll keep the account. General Motors put the lucrative account up for review earlier this year, putting Fallon into competition with three other teams (including one from its own parent company, Publicis). Adweek reports that Cadillac plans ...
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Snapshot High of 71 + Twins blow lead + Highway bridge collapses + Boy Scouts end ban on gay marriage Video
Perryman, who took over as CEO of the company when it was near bankruptcy in 1987, is the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal's Women in Business Career Achievement winner. Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer of Facebook, speaks at the 24th Annual Conference of the Professional Business Women of California (PBWC) in San Francisco on Thursday. Sandberg received $26.2 million in ...
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Minn. Judges Serve Lunch At Dorothy Day Center
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota Supreme Court justices, Court of Appeals judges, and other members of the judicial branch will be serving lunch to the needy at the Dorothy Day Center, as part of an effort to reach out to people in the ...
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Gov. Dayton Signs Solar Energy Standard
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota’s investor-owned utilities will be required to get 1.5 percent of their power from solar energy by 2020 under legislation signed by Gov. Mark ...
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Ely Inspection Station To Open For Summer Season
INTERNATIONAL FALLS, Minn. (AP) — U.S. Customs and Border Protection says the Ely inspection station will open for the summer tourist season ...
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Rangers Coach John Tortorella Explains Benching Of Brad Richards
Brad Richards was a healthy scratch Thursday night when New York stayed alive in the Stanley Cup playoffs with a 4-3 overtime victory in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference semifinal series against the Boston Bruins. Richards, a star player earning $12 million this season, stayed on the ice with the extras Thursday during the morning skate. He then confirmed that Rangers coach John Tortorella had ...
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St. Paul K-9 handler gets new start with new partner
In February, Longbehn’s former partner Kody, a 9-year-old German shepherd, was fatally stabbed in the basement of a St. Paul home by a suspect. Kody had only two more weeks to go before he would have been able to retire from the St. Paul Police Department. His attacker was shot and killed by ...
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Block E's future finally brighter?
Block E has long been cursed with misfortune and a bad reputation. The acquisition of the mall of the same name, which stands on a block with a troubled history, may signal a change in fortune for the area.
Block E. For residents of Minneapolis the downtown city block has been a source of good times and bad, highs and lows, affluence and squalor, for almost one hundred years. Read more
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