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Walters to get called up and start Saturday
Email DETROIT -- Right-hander P.J. Walters will be recalled from Triple-A Rochester before Saturday's game to make his first start of the season against the Tigers. The Twins will wait until Saturday to make the move official, as they still need to make room for Walters on both on the 25-man and 40-man rosters. Kevin Correia, who was slated to start on Saturday, will now be pushed back to ...
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Precaution keeps Florimon out of lineup
Email DETROIT -- Shortstop Pedro Florimon, who left Thursday's game with a sprained right index finger, was held out of the lineup for precautionary reasons against the Tigers on Friday. Florimon, who injured his finger while sliding into third base in the second inning of the Twins' 7-6 loss, came in feeling better on Friday, but Eduardo Escobar made the start at shortstop in his ...
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Plouffe passes concussion test Thursday
Email DETROIT -- Third baseman Trevor Plouffe, who was placed on the 7-day disabled list with concussion-like symptoms on Wednesday, passed his ImPACT concussion test on Thursday. Plouffe sustained the injury when he was kneed in the back of his head by Dan Uggla while sliding into second base in Tuesday night's game in Atlanta. He showed signs of a concussion with sensitivity to light and ...
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Nebraska knocks out Gophers in Big Ten tournament
MINNEAPOLIS -- Stung by a bitter walk-off loss to Ohio State on Thursday, Nebraska promptly resurfaced Friday to avoid elimination on Day 3 of the Big Ten tournament at Target Field, knocking out local Minnesota in the process. Sophomore Pat Kelly's three-run homer punctuated a six-run fourth inning to propel third-seeded Nebraska to a 7-4 victory against Minnesota, bumping the Gophers out ...
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Man arrested for disorderly conduct in Keller Hall
University of Minnesota police booked a man for disorderly conduct at Keller Hall on Tuesday, according to a police report. The man, who is not affiliated with the University according to the report, was allegedly shouting obscenities at Facilities Management workers from the second floor. Owens may have gotten into Keller Hall through doors that FM propped open for cleaning, the report said. ...
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Man Looks To Turn Historic Duluth Jail Into Urban Destination
DULUTH, Minn. (WCCO) — For the past 20 years, the old St. Louis County Jail stood as a vacant reminder of trouble. It was an unwanted fixture in downtown Duluth...until a Twin Cities developer heard the cries of those looking to preserve the property. Now, Grant Carlson hopes to turn the jail into the most popular address in town. With its commanding view of Duluth, it seems hard to ...
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3 Years After Program’s Inception Kotila Has Century In World Series
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Three years ago, Century College decided to start a baseball program. They hired a man who had experience after taking Ridgewater Community College to the Junior College World Series. And now that’s where Dwight Kotila has the Century squad — getting ready for a run at a national title, just a few years after the program’s inception. ...
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Think Gas Prices Are Bad For Boaters Race Car Drivers Have It Worse
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – The national average for a gallon of gas has gone up 17 days in a row. But here in the Twin Cities, gas has dropped three cents to an average of $4.17 a gallon. That’s still quite a bit higher than the national average. And boaters are feeling the pinch. Last weekend on Lake Minnetonka, the price was $5.39 a gallon. But people with boats we talked with say the ...
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Cheaper Prince Tickets To Entice ‘Casual’ Fans
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – "Purple Rain" solidified Prince’s status as one of the greats. Like many Prince fans, Jesse McMonagle remembers where he was when he saw Prince's cinematic debut. "I snuck into 'Purple Rain' when I was in fourth grade," McMonagle said. And when tickets went on sale for a St. Paul stop on Prince’s "Live Out Loud ...
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Wedding Venues Services Seeing Rise In Bookings For This Fall
Same sex weddings in Minnesota are expected to bring in $42 million, and increased tax revenues of $3 million. ';This isn’t going just something that’s going to be a quick, ‘Let’s jump on the bandwagon and do this’ thing,'; said Eliesa Johnson of Photogen Inc. ';It really is going to affect the industry for the long-term.'; In talking with a ...
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Hospital Boy Injured In St. Paul Landslide In Fair Condition
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) - One of the fourth-graders injured in Wednesday's landslide in St. Paul is currently in fair condition, according to Regions Hospital and Gillette Children's Specialty Healthcare. The hospital announced Friday afternoon that Devon Meldahl was admitted to the trauma center on Wednesday. The landslide happened that afternoon in Lilydale Park, and it left Meldahl and ...
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Archdiocese to ordain largest class of priests since 2005
When Luke Marquard was a senior at a Faribault Catholic school, then Archbishop Harry Flynn told him he looked a lot like a priest Flynn knew. After a dinner for top graduates he hosted, Flynn sent Marquard a head shot of that priest, with a note: "This is what you're going to look like when you're older." "I thought, 'Oh, man, I am going to look like a ...
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Minnesota Twins promote P.J. Walters delay Kevin Correias next start
DETROIT -- Armed with strong numbers at Comerica Park, journeyman right-hander P.J. Walters is being promoted from Triple-A Rochester to start Saturday afternoon's game for the Twins against the Detroit Tigers. Walters, 28, has gone 1-0 with a 2.92 ERA in two career starts in Detroit. Overall against the high-powered Tigers lineup, Walters is 1-1 with a 3.20 ERA in five outings (four ...
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Minnesota Twins Trevor Plouffe feeling better after head injury
DETROIT -- While all indications were encouraging for Twins third baseman Trevor Plouffe, he said he had yet to be informed whether he suffered concussion Tuesday night. "I mean, was it not a concussion? Has that been stated?" Plouffe said Friday afternoon. "I don't even know. They haven't told me anything, trust me. I just do all the stuff they tell me to do. I never ...
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Minnesota lawmakers raise taconite tax to help pay for Iron Range school construction
Minnesota's per-ton tax on taconite iron ore produced in the state will increase a dime this year, and the extra money will be dedicated to help rebuild and retool Iron Range schools. The taconite provision was included in the 2013 Legislature's final omnibus tax bill, which Gov. Mark Dayton signed into law Thursday. The per-ton tax on taconite will increase to $2.56. Half the ...
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Bayport well owners warned of water standard changes
A cluster of private well owners near Bayport is being told to start filtering their water -- because of changing safety standards for a local pollutant. The state Department of Health mailed letters May 24 to owners of 130 wells in Bayport, Baytown Township and West Lakeland Township. The state has changed its allowable limits for a pollutant called TCE -- so those limits are now under the ...
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St. Paul begins search for answers after mudslide that took two young lives
"We are just heartbroken. I prayed all the way here and I will pray all the way home," said Laurie Amos of St. Louis Park as she places flowers by a makeshift memorial in front of St. Louis Park's Peter Hobart Elementary School on May 23, 2013, to honor two students who died on a field trip to Lilydale Regional Park in St. Paul a day earlier. (Pioneer Press: Scott ...
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Lilydale Park landslide Injured boys identified
< 200){ requestedWidth = 200; } The two St. Louis Park fourth-graders injured in the Lilydale Regional Park landslide were identified as Lucas Lee and Devon Meldahl, St. Paul police said Friday afternoon. The conditions of the boys, both from St. Louis Park, were not immediately known, said Patty Dunn, spokeswoman at Gillette Children's Specialty Healthcare. The boys were on a ...
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Movie Blog ‘Hangover’ ‘Fast Furious’ Franchises Drive On
As bad as so many sequels are, I often find myself feeling sorrier for the characters in them than the audiences who subject themselves to overly familiar franchises. I mean, think about it. Can you imagine being the characters in the Hangover series? Caught in an endless cycle of increasingly less amusing catastrophes, coping with the growing certainty that some unjust, omniscient force with a ...
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Todays MLB starting lineups May 24
Below are starting lineups that have been made public by the clubs. A lineup is not official until it is handed to the umpire. Additional lineups will be added as they become available: Atlanta Braves: 1. ...
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Mpls. to pay $3M in police misconduct case
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- The city of Minneapolis has agreed to pay more than $3 million to settle a lawsuit filed by the family of a man who died after struggling with police at the Minneapolis ...
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Roseville police seek help identifying mall groping suspect
Roseville police are asking the public to help identify a man suspected of groping a woman in a Crossroads of Roseville Mall parking lot Saturday, May 18. The 51-year-old woman was reportedly putting items into her trunk around 8 p.m. when she felt someone grab her butt and partially push her into the trunk of her car, according to information provided Friday by Roseville police. The man then ...
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Intense sports training school eyes national expansion
Third grader Mason Johnson from Lakeville stopped and did some work on his laptop atop some hockey equipment bags--in between academic classes and ice hockey ice time at Northern Educate Hockey Academy, a K-12 school with three hours of ice time each day is a program is on the cusp of a massive expansion--at the Eagan Ice Arena Tuesday morning May 21, 2013. (Pioneer Press: John Doman) For ...
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Ex-Minneapolis police officer facing more sex charges
The latest round of criminal charges filed against a former Minneapolis police officer accused of soliciting young girls online include allegations he repeatedly had sex with a 16-year-old he lured to his car during the summer of 2010. Eight additional charges were filed Friday against Bradley Schnickel in Anoka County District Court, bringing the total number of criminal counts now facing the ...
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Xcel agrees to pay penalty in chemical fire that killed five men
. Xcel Energy will pay $150,000 in penalties for workplace safety violations at one of the utilitys Colorado power plants where five men died in a chemical fire. Five California men died Oct. 2, 2007, at the utilitys Cabin Creek hydroelectric plant near Georgetown, Colo., after a fire broke out inside a drained water tunnel connected to the plant. The men were resealing the tunnel when a ...
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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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