07/16/11 The NBA-owned Hornets nearly ace the test of Ken Berger's criteria for contraction. As the league looks to stanch yearly losses amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars, what other franchises meet the mark?
07/16/11 The Eighth District congressman wants to move his two preteen sons closer to his wife's work in Boston.
07/16/11 Minnesota Congressman Chip Cravaack says attack ads are pressuring him to begin running for re-election...
07/13/11 Chicago-based MillerCoors could be forced to remove nearly 40 brands of beer from Minnesota liquor stores, bars and restaurants because of the state government shutdown.
07/13/11 Your favorite bar might close because of Minnesota's shutdown. About 300 bars across the state have expired purchasing licenses, according to the Minnesota Licensed Beverage Association.
07/12/11 The city of Shoreview has joined St. Paul and North St. Paul in opposing the proposed financing for a Vikings stadium in Arden Hills -- and other suburbs may follow.
07/11/11 With some big free agents already having been signed and players being swapped in blockbuster trades, the NHL has already undergone massive change in a couple of week. Mike Richards is a King, Brad is a Ranger and Brent Burns is Shark. Heatley has gone Wild. The Flyers blew up their team, Chicago dumped a contract and Buffalo decided to spend. All this madness calls for some order. The following ...
05/19/11 Champlin Park High School senior Desiree Shelton has seening bullying first-hand after she and her girlfriend sued her high school for the right to participate in a winter dance event.
05/18/11 Former state Sen. Tarryl Clark has bought a condo in Duluth to set up residency in her carpetbagger move to try to hijack the 8th District congressional seat.
05/17/11 CI DIVISION Dakota United 9, New Prague 3 North Suburban 11, Buffalo 1 Thunderbolts 15, Burnsville/Lakeville 15 Baseball SUBURBAN
05/14/11 It's not exactly a celebration of carp -- that pervasive piscatorial scourge of Minnesota lakes and wetlands. But the Chisago Lakes Lions Carp Festival next Saturday is an attempt to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
05/13/11 The city of St. Cloud is divided between two congressional districts in the House GOP's proposed redistricting plan. So are Brainerd and North Mankato. It has to be so, the map's author told the St. Cloud Times . State Rep. Sarah Anderson, R-Plymouth, told the paper that the mapmakers tried to split as few cities and counties as possible. But some had to be carved up, to achieve population ...
05/13/11 Residents of northeastern Minnesota would be represented by longtime Democratic Congressman Collin Peterson under a congressional redistricting plan, proposed by Republican legislators this week.
05/11/11 A Republican-controlled state House committee on Tuesday quickly approved a congressional redistricting plan that would create four relatively safe GOP districts and split rural Minnesota into three horizontal districts stretching from Wisconsin to the North and South Dakota borders.
05/10/11 Duluth, MN (Northland's NewsCenter) -- Two American hikers held in Iran since 2009 are set to appear in court Wednesday morning.
05/08/11 Former state Senator Tarryl Clark announced Sunday she is seeking the DFL nomination to run against U.S. Rep. Chip Cravaack (R-Lindstrom) in the 2012 election.
05/05/11 Westbrook After a long cold, snowy winter, and spring it seemed like the perfect time for a really fun time. The Westbrook Area Volunteers had a great idea to pick people up from the doldrums of winter and a very cold spring....
05/04/11 PHOENIX -- Justin Upton hit a tiebreaking homer to lead off the eighth inning and the Arizona Diamondbacks roughed up Jorge De La Rosa for one inning to beat the Colorado Rockies 4-3 Tuesday night.
05/04/11 American hiker Sarah Shourd said she is traumatized by her prison experience in Iran and will not return there for trial on May 11th. Iranian authorities detained Shourd last year, along with her fiance and Minnesota native Shane Bauer and their friend Josh Fattal.
05/03/11 Badminton ST. PAUL CITY Central 6, Highland Park 1 Harding 5, Como Park 2 Johnson 7, Humboldt 0 Baseball ST. |