Bill Would Help Foster Youths With School Records
Federal lawmakers proposed a bill Thursday that would give social workers better access to school records in an effort to improve education for foster children.
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Federal lawmakers proposed a bill Thursday that would give social workers better access to school records in an effort to improve education for foster children.
A panel of top state officials has approved the sale of 77 mineral rights leases to four companies that want to prospect for copper, nickel and other valuable metals in scenic northeastern Minnesota.
Federal officials have designated three Minnesota trails national recreation trails.
Secretary of State Mark Ritchie is opposing attorney fee awards for those who sued over political redistricting.
Democrat Jim Graves says he doesn't expect competition from the Independence Party as he challenges Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann in Minnesota's 6th District.
A mistrial has been declared in the campaign fraud trial against ex-presidential candidate John Edwards.
The mayor of a town in south Minnesota has been arrested for allegedly assaulting his estranged wife, according to a report.
The chief House sponsor of the Minnesota Vikings stadium legislation won't run for a new term in the Legislature.
Former President Bill Clinton will be the headline speaker for a Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party dinner in August.
Minnesota House Republicans are showing off the slate of candidates they believe will renew the party's majority in November's elections.
On Friday, President Barack Obama will be in Minneapolis, visiting the Honeywell campus, but he's also raising money. And tickets to his fundraiser can cost up to $40,000 a pop.
Occupy Homes MN protesters are planning to reoccupy the south Minneapolis home that protesters and police having been tussling over this last week.
U.S. Sen. Al Franken says he plans to pursue legislation requiring encryption of all laptops containing private medical information, after holding a hearing Wednesday on aggressive debt collection practices in Minnesota hospitals.
Republican U.S. Rep. Chip Cravaack (crah-VACK') says there's little difference between the three Democrats competing to challenge him in one of the country's battlegrounds for control of Congress.
A coalition plans to announce a legal challenge to a proposed constitutional amendment that would require voters to present photo IDs at the polls.
