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  • Tim Walz claps his handsPolitics

    Tim Walz shakes up the 2024 race: 5 insights on Harris’s new running mate

    By Steve Karnowski, John Hanna, and others
  • Hands holding a pile of white mushroomsHealth

    Calls to poison control centers are surging thanks to a bumper crop of wild mushrooms in the Midwest

    By Steve Karnowski and The Associated Press
  • This photo supplied by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Minnesota shows cash from a bag that was left at the home of a juror in a massive fraud case, June 2, 2024, outside Minneapolis, Minn. Authorities have confiscated cellphones and taken all seven defendants into custody as investigators try to determine who attempted to bribe the juror to acquit them on charges of stealing more than $40 million from a program meant to feed children during the pandemic. (U.S. Attorney’s Office for Minnesota via AP)Politics

    Massive $250 million theft from federal food aid program made possible by Minnesota agency’s lax oversight, audit finds

    By Steve Karnowski and The Associated Press
  • This July 29, 2013, photo shows a case of freshly-stamped Marlboro cigarette cartons at M. Amundson Cigar & Candy Co. in Minneapolis. Smokers in Minneapolis will pay some of the highest cigarette prices in the country after the City Council voted unanimously Thursday, april 25, 2024 to impose a minimum retail price of $15 per pack to promote public health. (Mark Zdechlik/Minnesota Public Radio via AP, file)Health

    Minneapolis imposes $15 a pack minimum for cigarettes—$2 more than NYC—to curb smoking

    By Steve Karnowski and The Associated Press
  • Jerry Hal SalitermanLifestyle

    Second wheelchair-bound ruby slippers thief revealed in Minnesota ‘Wizard of Oz’ theft case

    By Steve Karnowski and The Associated Press
  • FILE – MyPillow chief executive Mike Lindell speaks to reporters outside federal court in Washington, June 24, 2021. On Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024, a federal judge affirmed a $5 million arbitration award against the MyPillow chief executive in favor of a software engineer who challenged data that Lindell claims proves that China interfered in the U.S. 2020 elections and tipped the outcome to Joe Biden. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)Politics

    Federal judge affirms decision that MyPillow’s Mike Lindell must pay $5m to software engineer who disproved his 2020 election tampering claims

    By Steve Karnowski and The Associated Press
  • Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison is hugged by Nicole Smith-Holt during a press conference, Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2024, in St. Paul, Minn. Her son Alec passed away due to diabetic ketoacidosis after he was forced to ration his insulin due to its high cost. Ellison announced Wednesday a settlement with Eli Lilly in his litigation against the 3 largest insulin manufacturers. (Glen Stubbe/Star Tribune via AP)Health

    Minnesotans can buy insulin for just $35 a month over the next 5 years under a state settlement with Eli Lilly

    By Steve Karnowski and The Associated Press
  • Ruby slippersLifestyle

    Septuagenerian ruby-slippers thief avoids jail but has to pay $300 a month for plan to ‘destroy an irreplaceable part of American culture’

    By Steve Karnowski and The Associated Press
  • Rhys ThomasLifestyle

    Aging mobster who stole Dorothy’s ruby slippers may have just 6 months to live and should avoid jail time, lawyer argues

    By Steve Karnowski and The Associated Press
  • FILE – MyPillow chief executive Mike Lindell, speaks to reporters outside federal court in Washington, June 24, 2021. MyPillow chief executive and prominent election denier Mike Lindell said Friday, Jan. 12, 2024 that Fox News has stopped running his company’s commercials, disputing the network’s assertion that it’s simply because he hasn’t paid his bills. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)Politics

    Mike Lindell suggests Fox News is trying to silence him by stopping MyPillow ads while network says his company hasn’t paid the bills

    By Steve Karnowski and The Associated Press
  • St. Paul City Council members, from left, Mitra Jalali, Anika Bowie, Rebecca Noecker, Saura Jost, HwaJeong Kim, Nelsie Yang and Chenique Johnson are introduced at the start of the inauguration ceremony for St. Paul City Council members in St. Paul, Minn. on Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024. The youngest and most diverse city council in the history of Minnesota’s capital city was sworn into office Tuesday, officially elevating the first all-female St. Paul City Council into public service at City Hall. (John Autey /Pioneer Press via AP)Politics

    Minnesota capital St. Paul makes history as first large U.S. city with all-female council

    By Trisha Ahmed, Steve Karnowski, and others
  • MinnesotaPolitics

    Minnesota just designed a new state flag explicitly intended to be less racist. Here’s what they changed (everything)

    By Steve Karnowski and The Associated Press
  • FILE – Two feral hogs are caught in a trap on a farm in rural Washington County, Mo., Jan. 27, 2019. Minnesota, North Dakota and Montana and other northern states are making preparations to stop a threatened invasion from Canada. Wild pigs already cause around $2.5 billion in damage to U.S. crops every year, mostly in southern states like Texas. But the exploding population of feral swine on the prairies of western Canada is threatening spill south. (David Carson/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP, file)Environment

    Feral Canadian ‘super pigs’— ‘the most invasive animal on the planet’— are threatening the northern U.S. and billions of dollars worth of crops

    By Steve Karnowski and The Associated Press
  • WELLAND CANAL-03/06/04-PHOTO098067-Images of the Welland Canal for an upcoming feature on the anniversary of the St. Lawrence Seaway. The “Flight Locks,” so named because they look like a flight of stairs, are the three locks that have tandem channels for two-way traffic. The ship at left is heading south into lock five at its low-water mark, from lock four which is at its high-water mark.(Photo by Peter Power/The Toronto Star)pmp (Photo by Peter Power/Toronto Star via Getty Images)Success

    Strike shuts down major U.S. shipping route used to haul $12 billion in cargo last year after workers said they’re ‘1,000 nautical miles apart on wages’

    By Steve Karnowski and The Associated Press
  • Wizard of Oz red slippersLifestyle

    76-year-old man expected to plead guilty to nearly 2-decade cold case over theft of Judy Garland’s ruby slippers

    By Steve Karnowski and The Associated Press