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Newsweek Magazine published its list Monday of America's top schools for 2014, and nine Minnesota schools made the list of 500. Newsweek bases its school rankings on the institutions that do the best job of preparing their students for college.
Police say a Buhl, Minn. bar was burglarized late Saturday evening. According to the St. Louis County, police received a call of a burglary at Billy's Bar that took place sometime overnight Saturday, Sept. 6. The suspect(s) entered the business and took an undisclosed amount of cash and checks.
Wildlife managers say Minnesota pheasant hunters this fall should find similar conditions to last year, but that the long-term decline in the rooster harvest is expected to continue. The Department of Natural Resources' annual roadside survey shows a 6 percent increase in the pheasant population from 2013 despite a severe winter, a slow start to spring and heavy rains in June.
Two Minnesotans are having anything but the "case of the Mondays" after winning the $11.7 million in Minnesota's Hot Lotto. The winners are Rhonda and Joseph Meath. WCCO Radio's Edgar Linares spotted them entering the lottery headquarters Monday morning.
The new St. Paul Saints ballpark currently under construction in Lowertown now has a name. The ballpark, which will open next year, will be known as the CHS Field. A deal was announced Monday morning that gives the naming rights to the Twin Cities-based CHS Inc., an agriculture cooperative.
The University of Minnesota issued a crime alert after a student was threatened with a large screwdriver in an attempted armed robbery Thursday.
St. Paul's Como Zoo welcomed a baby zebra early Sunday morning. According to Como Zoo officials, zookeepers believe the foal was born sometime in the late hours of Saturday or early hours of Sunday. When zookeepers came in on Sunday they found the baby up, walking and following its mother.
Now that summer's winding down, a lot of us are going from working out outdoors to a more regular gym routine.
The city of St. Paul is starting a $2.5 million repair and resurfacing project for most of its 20 worst-rated roads. Construction on about half of the roads will start Monday and is slated to go through mid-October. Work will begin Sept. 22 on another four roads.
Today's students have more reasons than ever to care about engineering.
Kevin Jarrett isn't your typical computer teacher. His students build walls from clay, sand and water. They design parachutes from coffee filters. And it's perfectly fine if the things they build don't work the first time.
Organizers say hundreds of volunteers have collected about three tons of trash during a cleanup of Minnehaha Creek near the Twin Cities following heavy summer floods. The Minnehaha Creek Watershed District says volunteers and park workers spent most of Sunday cleaning up and assessing damage along Hiawatha and Nokomisthe lakes and the creek, which branches off the Mississippi River.
Since Race to the Top was launched, schools across the country have adopted new, rigorous education standards, implemented stringent teacher evaluation systems and are developing data collection systems to better inform instruction.
More than three million job openings in the U.S. go unfilled for months, according to the President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness.
A Metro Transit Green Line train collided with a car Sunday afternoon. According to Metro Transit officials, the accident occurred around 4:30 p.m. when a car attempted to turn left in front of a westbound train.
