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Republican candidate Michele Bachmann spent Saturday shaking hands in Iowa diners and strolling through bustling farmers market as she tried to capitalize on her early popularity in the state that kicks off the presidential campaign season.
Republican leaders and the governor will try again next week to resolve the budget impasse. Both sides said a few days away from each other might be a good thing over the Fourth of July holiday.
"Can we recall legislators or the governor?" asks Barbara of White Bear Lake.
A government shutdown could create a huge setback for Minnesotans who are already in need. Funding for some programs that prevent homelessness is no longer available.
The blind are losing reading services. A help line for the elderly has gone silent. And poor families are scrambling after the state stopped child care subsidies.
Despite the Minnesota government shutdown, you still have to pay your state taxes. But don't expect to receive any tax refunds for now.
Former Albert Lea City Manager Jim Norman has been sentenced to 90 days electronic home monitoring and five years probation for using the city-issued credit card for personal purchases.
A campaign aide to Tim Pawlenty says the Republican presidential hopeful raised $4.2 million in the fundraising period that ended Thursday.
The Minnesota government shutdown is threatening delivery of tons of food to pantries statewide.
With Minnesota's state government closed for business, the focus shifted Friday to who's to blame.
A state hotline that helps seniors is one of many casualties in Minnesota's state government shutdown.
Stillwater prison guard John Hillyard will keep his job while many state government operations come to a halt, but he's worried about the inmates becoming restless. Correction officers at state prisons are working without support staff. Daily activities and programs as well as recreation and inmate visits are canceled.
Dylan Burger's work to become an Eagle Scout has been sidetracked by politics.
Minnesota stumbled into its second government shutdown in six years on Thursday, with a partisan divide over taxes and spending to close a $5 billion deficit becoming only more bitter as a midnight deadline came and went without agreement.
All bets will be off at Canterbury Park Friday night and beyond, unless a budget deal can be reached at the Minnesota State Capitol.
