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Every Friday, Mike Augustyniak will be picking up a new cocktail recipe from a local mixologist. Throughout November, he's getting his inspirations from Parlour in downtown Minneapolis. This week's selection: their Sidecar, a classy spin on one of the original cocktails.
Thursday morning, Twitter became a publicly traded company. Stocks soared and put the value of the social-media company at more than $30 billion. So with Twitter in the news, we wondered about one of its most well-known symbols -- the hashtag.
Parents will live in another state while their children move to Minnesota to play hockey. It may sound extreme, but schools say it's happening. Now, some college students are calling on lawmakers to crack down.
There aren't many foods that bring back more memories than the grilled cheese sandwich. But who makes Minnesota's best grilled cheese? Viewers' votes sent Matt Brickman to Don's Café in Morris, Minn.
American Indian activists and others plan to demonstrate against the Washington Redskins' nickname ahead of the team's game against the Minnesota Vikings Thursday night. The groups plan to march to the Metrodome for a rally.
Betsy Hodges, a Democratic member of the Minneapolis City Council, emerged as the winner of the race for mayor of Minnesota's largest city Thursday night. Hodges received the most votes of the 35 candidates in Tuesday's race but fell shy of an outright majority. Minneapolis uses ranked-choice voting, which allows people to make up to three choices of candidates on their ballots. Ballots are reassigned as candidates are deemed out of contention.
When it comes to math, Minnesota students aren't just making the grade. Our fourth graders are now actually among the top scorers in the country.
For the first time, the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension's lab matched unidentified remains to reopen a cold case. And the family of Pearline Walton finally has some answers to the questions they've been asking since she went missing from Minneapolis 20 years ago.
This week's snow has added to an already wet crop, and that means a lot of farmers will rely on grain dryers to dry out their corn. "You can't dry it, you can't combine it, and you can't get it done," said Peter Leuer of Leuer Farms.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is taking trans fats entirely out of the food supply, as health officials said the heart clogging fats are simply unsafe. "I think that is good," Meghan Dail. "I mean obviously it's a huge problem in the U.S."
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A legislator has taken to the Michigan Senate floor to apologize for putting false information about the sighting of wolves outside a day care center in his resolution urging Congress to strip gray wolves of endangered species protections.
Fourth-grade students in Minnesota scored at the top nationally in math and above the national average in reading, according to national test results released Thursday.
A 26-year-old northern Minnesota man faces a fine of almost $400 after admitting to shooting and killing a tundra swan, a federally protected bird, last month, the Department of Natural Resources says.
A southern Wisconsin family who had lost hope of ever seeing their cat after he ran off five years ago has been reunited with the gray tabby. A Racine woman turned Sammie into the local Wisconsin Humane Society after being concerned the declawed kitty that'd been hanging around her home for months would not survive the cold weather.
