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Ammonia leak in Swift plant

In Worthington, several Swift plant employees were hospitalized after an ammonia leak on Tuesday morning shut down the JBS Swift Plant, MORE »

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In what has to be the lamest vampire attack ever, 45-year-old Jonathon Sharkey, "The Impaler," pleaded guilty to gross misdemeanor counts of harrassing a teenage girl via email, after she tried to endMORE »

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Schubert vs. solar

By Mary Turck, News Day blog

Minneapolis decided to use most its $3.6 million in federal reconstruction money to fix up the Schubert Theater rather than to fund a solar energy project.MORE »

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News Day: GM in MN / Franken-Coleman blow-by-blow / Health care saga / more

By Mary Turck, News Day blog

We’re trying out a new format – headlines here, individual articles when you click on individual headlines, or the entire blog on one page when you click on the MORE »

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MN GM dealers: Who's going down?

By Mary Turck, News Day blog

Minnesota has 149 GM dealers, reports MPR, and Tuesday they will learn which dealershMORE »

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War Reports

By Mary Turck, News Day blog

Somalia Five police were killed in a roadside bombing, and government forces retook a police station that had been overrun by rebels, MORE »

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World/National Headlines, June 2 2009

By Mary Turck, News Day blog

World/National Headlines

Sri Lanka journalist beaten Poddala Jayantha, a journalist whose campaigns for press freedom have led him to be consideredd an opponent of the government, was abduct

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Congrats to St. Kate's!

By Mary Turck, News Day blog

After 104 years, the women's college is now a university -- St. Catherine's University.MORE »

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School director faces embezzlement charges

By Mary Turck, News Day blog

Last summer, the Minneapolis school district revoked the charter of the 40-year-old Oh Day Aki/Heart of the Earth school, a school originally founded by the American Indian Movement that had become a MORE »

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Strike threat at Strib

By Mary Turck, News Day blog

Over at MinnPost, David Brauer continues with analysiMORE »

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