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Minnesotans who buy online soon will pay sales tax
Minnesota's brick-and-mortar retailers have long complained of being at a competitive disadvantage because they must charge sales taxes while their online rivals do not - a requirement that raises their ...
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Police Still Waiting For Evidence Statements Before Speaking On Uptown Shooting
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – It’s been almost two weeks since an officer-involved shooting left one man dead and two police officers with gunshot wounds in a south Minneapolis basement. Recently, Chief Janee Harteau has faced criticism for releasing few details about the case. Of the five officers involved, sources say three gave statements within 72 hours of the shooting. Police say the ...
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After Passing Away Teen Lights Up Scoreboard Again
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – A St. Louis Park teenager who died after a battle with leukemia is being remembered in a very special way. Eighteen-year-old Derrick Keller was a stand-out high school baseball player and was offered a scholarship to Southwest Minnesota State University. But before he could go to college, he was diagnosed with leukemia and passed away last summer. On Wednesday, the ...
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Generosity Takes Center Stage In HS Tennis Match
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – There are a lot of differences between Minneapolis Edison and The Blake School. The Blake School is a perennial power in tennis - and Minneapolis Edison is not. So when the two were matched up last week, there was little doubt what the result would ...
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Memorial Growing For 2 Students Lost In Lilydale Landslide
ST. LOUIS PARK, Minn. (WCCO) – Counselors were on hand at Peter Hobart Elementary School on Thursday for returning students, parents, and staff. And there’s a growing memorial that’s been set up outside the school as the community honors the two children who died in the Lilydale Park land slide — Mohamed Fofana, Haysem Sani — and also the two students injured in ...
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Arcia out of the lineup for fourth straight game
Email DETROIT -- Rookie outfielder Oswaldo Arcia was on the bench for a fourth straight game on Thursday, but Twins manager Ron Gardenhire said he wants to get him back in the lineup on Friday against the Tigers. Arcia didn't start any of the club's three games in Atlanta but did serve as a pinch-hitter in all three games, belting a pinch-hit homer in Wednesday's 8-3 loss. ...
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Mastroianni to be out six weeks after ankle surgery
Email DETROIT -- Outfielder Darin Mastroianni underwent successful surgery on his left ankle on Wednesday and is expected to be out six weeks. Mastroianni, who was moved to the 60-day disabled list on Wednesday, had a bone chip in his ankle repaired by team physician Dr. John Steubs in Minnesota. He initially sustained the injury when he fouled a ball of his ankle in Spring Training and ...
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Twins relievers effective despite heavy workload
Email DETROIT -- With Twins starters not going deep into games, the club's relievers have been called on to eat innings but have stayed effective. The Twins haven't had a starter go more than five innings since Vance Worley went six on Friday against the Red Sox. But Worley only went 3 2/3 innings on Wednesday and was optioned to Triple-A Rochester after his start. So manager Ron ...
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Suspended St. Paul attorney gets jail time after driving drunk
Rachel Lauren Toberman Rachel Toberman, a suspended St. Paul attorney who pleaded to obstructing legal process and drunken driving, was sentenced Thursday to 30 days in jail. Toberman, 32, tearfully told Ramsey County District Judge Robyn Millenacker that she was a different person than the one who hit a vehicle in January 2011 in the Sweeney's Saloon parking lot and then fought with ...
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Zach Sobiech funeral Mourners sing Up up up to bid him farewell
Balloons were placed outside St. Michael's Church in Stillwater on Thursday, May 23, 2013, for the funeral of Internet singing sensation Zach Sobiech, who was 18. (Courtesy of Shawn Hogendorf, Stillwater ...
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Two Harbors sexual harassment case splits Minnesota Supreme Court
The Minnesota Supreme Court has sent a case back to the trial court to determine whether a Two Harbors businessman sexually harassed three women employees, but two of the justices issued strong dissents and said they believe the women already proved their case. In his dissent, Supreme Court Associate Justice Paul Anderson said the court is sending a message to Minnesota citizens that victims of ...
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Poll Minnesota resorts motels bullish on summer season
The majority of Minnesota resorts and campgrounds polled in a recent survey, 84 percent, expect their 2013 summer season to be as good as or better than last year, according to Explore Minnesota Tourism, the state-funded tourism promotional agency. The poll was released on the eve of the Memorial Day weekend holiday, traditionally the kickoff of the summer vacation season. Explore Minnesota ...
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Minnesota Legislature Jobs jobs jobs Pioneer Press editorial
As they review lawmakers' performance at the Minnesota Legislature, business advocates have new worries about the impact of higher taxes on the state's competitiveness and job growth. They're worthy worries: Weakening the business climate weakens the jobs climate. "Every Minnesotan will pay more -- in the form of higher taxes, higher prices or higher fees," says the ...
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Fossil area closed after 2 boys die in Minn. park
Authorities on Thursday recovered the body of a second child killed when a rockslide hit a group of fourth-graders in a St. Paul park a day earlier, and announced that the popular fossil-hunting area would be closed ...
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Matula Search Picks Up Near Mississippi River
EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. (WCCO) – More than three weeks after an Eden Prairie woman disappeared, friends and family will pick up the search again and look along the Mississippi River in the town of Rice, and then again in the Eden Prairie area. Mandy Matula, 24, was last seen on May 1. She had been arguing with a former boyfriend, David Roe. Roe shot himself the next day in the parking lot of ...
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Son Honors Father’s Memory With Watermelon
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Memorial Day is this Monday, a day when Americans remember those who gave their lives for their country. Many families are busy decorating the graves of loved ones before services on Monday. And for most, that means bouquets of flowers or planting an American flag. But there’s one grave at Fort Snelling National Cemetery that’s most unusual — A ...
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3 Mpls. Locks Close To Recreational Traffic
[…] locks on the Mississippi have been closed to fun boating because of heavy water flow. WCCO-TV and the AP say: "The closures affect the Upper and Lower St. Anthony Falls locks in downtown Minneapolis, ...
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Search for missing Minn. woman to continue
Matula's family reported her missing when she didn't show up for work the next morning. Roe agreed to come in for police questioning, but shot himself in the Eden Prairie police parking lot and later ...
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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 rookie Vikings 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 after ...
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Joe Mauer Minnesota Twins dont need a team meeting
Twins catcher Joe Mauer says that despite the team's eight-game losing streak, a team meeting isn't needed yet. (Pioneer Press: Sherri ...
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Boy Scouts approve plan to accept openly gay boys
Photo credit: Getty Images | Members of Scouts for Equality hold a rally to call for equality and inclusion for gays in the Boy Scouts of America as part of the "Scouts for Equality Day of Action" in Washington, DC. (May 22, ...
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SDS aims to pressure administration
The main goal of University of Minnesota student group Students for a Democratic Society this fall semester will be trying to enact the three points of its proposed referendum. The referendum, which included a 10 percent pay cut to any administrator making more than $200,000, passed with 85.5 percent of the few thousand students who voted. In his response to SDS’s referendum, President ...
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Students remembered at grief stricken school after field trip tragedy
"It's just so sad to think something that tragic had to happen to innocent kids," said sixth grader Grace Hayden, who remembered her trip to Lilydale park not long ...
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Family friends gather Zach Sobiech while Clouds continues to soar
STILLWATER, Minn. -- On a day when there wasn't a cloud in the sky above Stillwater, hundreds gathered to celebrate the life of a young man whose music continues to soar in the charts. Family and friends poured into the Church of St. Michael Thursday morning for the funeral of Zach Sobiech. One hour before the service started, it was standing-room only. "[We're here] to honor a ...
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Curiocity Food Truck Feature — Neato’s Burgers
With so many new -- and delicious -- food trucks hitting the streets of the Twin Cities each summer, it’s almost too tough to keep up. Well, fear not, we’re here to help. Here’s this week’s food truck ...
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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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