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This week's Excellent Educator is Val Rae Boe, who has a passion for helping children with disabilities. Boe has put her heart and soul into creating the Karner Blue Education Center in Circle Pines, which is a brand new state-of-the-art facility that's an oasis for kids with special needs.
Human remains found in western South Dakota's Lawrence County last week have been identified as those of a man whose disappearance 14 years ago prompted searches in three states. The remains are those of David F. Johnson, a retired dentist from Buffalo, Wyoming, who was reported missing on June 5, 2000, according to the Lawrence County Sheriff's Department.
Ethan Reid, author of "The Undying," from Simon & Schuster shares his list of the creepiest vacation spots around the world for Halloween.
Vice President Joe Biden has urged Democrats in northeast Minnesota's Iron Range to get out the vote for U.S. Rep. Rick Nolan. Biden spoke Thursday at Hibbing Community College to try to give a boost to Nolan, a first-term Democratic incumbent who's locked in a tight race with GOP candidate Stewart Mills.
At more than 5,500 miles, it's the longest-continuous international border. Three-hundred-thousand people cross it legally every day at more than 100 checkpoints. But just how secure is the border? Dr. William Beeman is a professor of Middle East anthropology at the University of Minnesota.
The name is simple, but the insides aren't. Minneapolis' Costume Rentals holds one-of-a-kind costumes you can't find anywhere else. It's a non-descript building in Northeast Minneapolis. The type you'd drive right by.
The rescuers who pulled five children from a car that crashed into a St. Louis Park retention pond were honored for their bravery Thursday night. The men braved frigid conditions on Nov. 21, 2013, when a car swerved off the road and into a pond. They say they are not heroes. "We were still doing our job [that we were] trained to do," said Cpt. Paul Rosholt of the St. Louis Park Fire Department.
Upbeat music played while Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivered an upbeat message to a crowd of 2,000 at St. Paul's Macalester College Thursday. "I'm still feeling that grandmother glow," Clinton said. The new grandma touted Minnesota's economic recovery as a model for all states.
The track list for one of the most anticipated albums of the year, in Minnesota at least, was announced Thursday. Cities 97 released the track listing for their Cities 97 Sampler volume 26.
A partial solar eclipse has a whole lot of folks excited. "I think that we're going to get some really great views of the sun," said Dave Falkner of the Minnesota Astronomical Society. "There's a huge sun spot group to go along with the eclipse, and it's just really exciting."
Visitors to St. Paul's Como Zoo are in for a special and rare treat in the coming months. For the first time in the zoo's 117-year history, the zoo's staff are preparing for the births of two newborn gorillas.
A Twin Cities woman, who lost her husband to the Ebola virus, is being denied Social Security survivor benefits. Decontee Sawyer says that's because the country where he died won't release his death certificate. Patrick Sawyer got sick in July after traveling from Liberia to Nigeria.
A controversial football team is coming to town and not everyone is on board because of their name and mascot. At a press conference Thursday, the National Coalition Against Racism in Sports and Media announced a rally, called "No Honor In Racism Rally," which will be held during next week's Vikings game.
Gov. Mark Dayton is taking heat for avoiding reporters with questions about a key insurance provider's exit from the state's health care exchange.
The Minnesota Republican Party scrambled Thursday to revise a television ad that accuses Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton of incompetence after the grandmother of a 4-year-old boy whose death was highlighted in the spot complained it was inappropriate.
