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Big changes are in store for a program meant to help law enforcement take impaired drivers off the streets. State leaders are revamping the Drug Recognition Evaluator (DRE) training program after allegations of misconduct during the Occupy protests at Peavey Plaza last spring. Witnesses posted videos online, and claimed an officer was offering drugs to protesters to get them to participate in the program.
The St. Louis County Medical Examiner's Office identified the skeletal remains of a 56-year-old man whose body was found on the Iron Range in early May.
For the fifth consecutive year, the number of teenagers who gave birth in Hennepin County has decreased. According to Hennepin County officials, the number of teen births in 2007 was 1,170. In 2011, the number was 692. Teenagers are defined in the data as young women aged 15-19.
My thoughts and feelings on Joss Whedon's Much Ado About Nothing are conflicted. On the one hand, I found the movie tiresome and awkward on first viewing, like watching your roommate teach his cat how to play fetch. Yet, after learning how Much Ado was made, I grew to like the project more, as it has some real punk rockish, let's-make-a-movie spirit -- the exact stuff I'd like to see more of both in Hollywood and the indie scene.
Uncertainty, or the feeling of it, is the central force in "Wish You Were Here." The movie wants you to constantly question whether or not its main man (Joel Edgerton) is a villain...or just a guy who makes exceptionally dumb decisions. And as long as you give a damn about Edgerton's welfare, the movie works pretty well.
The Obama administration on Friday proposed lifting most remaining federal protections for gray wolves across the Lower 48 states, a move that would end four decades of recovery efforts but some scientists criticized as premature.
Signa Saunders, of Brainerd, Minn., boarded a ship for France in 1918 alongside soldiers headed into battle with the goal of doling out donuts for those in the line of fire. She recalled in her memoir, "Soldiers, Sinkers and Pie," what it was like to be on board.
If you don't automatically know what I'm talking about when I say "Old Economy Steve," odds that you actually are an Old Economy Steve just increased. To bring you up to speed, Steve is a meme that surfaced in the last couple months.
Even the recent cool temps can't stop St. Paul pools from opening with summer hours on June 8. Como Regional Park Pool, Highland Park Aquatic Center, Phalen Park Beach and Great River Water park will stay open seven days a week beginning Saturday.
Minnesota has recorded its first case of anthrax in a cow since 2008. The Board of Animal Health said Friday that tests confirm a 4-year-cow found dead Monday on a farm in Pennington County of northwestern Minnesota died of anthrax. The beef herd had not been vaccinated against the disease. Board spokeswoman Bethany Hahn says a veterinarian will lift the quarantine on the herd 30 days after the cow's death if there are no further cases.
The process to demolish the shuttered Ford Assembly Plant in St. Paul will begin next week as community leaders press forward to envision what will replace it. The Ford Plant closed its doors in December 2011 after 86 years of operation.
Hennepin County has received more than three-dozen applications for same-sex marriage licenses under Minnesota's new law allowing gay marriage. Minnesota's largest county received 38 applications Thursday, the first day the county began accepting applications for same-sex marriages.
Police in Mankato have arrested a suspect after a woman was found dead and a man was injured in an incident Thursday morning. Police responded to the incident on the 1400 block of Second Avenue at about 10:30 a.m. Thursday.
The monster is back, and she's settled in for a summer spell at Lake Nokomis this year. Minne, the Lake Monster, has sampled a number of local lakes to call home since first appearing at Lake Harriet four years ago.
Target Corp. is planning a new organic and natural store brand as it works to rev up its grocery business. The big-box retailer says the new brand, called Simply Balanced, will start with drinks and snacks like corn chips.
