Changes To CenterPoint Energy Bills Not Welcomed By All
CenterPoint Energy customers may soon notice a significantly higher utility bill this winter. That's because the company has changed to a new way of billing.
Watch CBS News
CenterPoint Energy customers may soon notice a significantly higher utility bill this winter. That's because the company has changed to a new way of billing.
As unemployment benefits get extended for the nation's jobless, there is one Eden Prairie man who won't need it.
Making saves are a key part of any hockey game, as goalies perform acrobatics to keep the opponent's puck from entering the net. But the biggest save at a recent girl's hockey tournament in Edina didn't involve the puck at all, but rather, a referee.
Putting purchases onto plastic is a way of life in our consumer-driven society. And of all the credit cards issued, one-in-four Americans has the card "that pays to Discover." The Delaware-based credit card company reported a 2009 net income of $1.3 billion.
In their cozy little plastic pens, laying atop beds of fresh straw, dairy farmer Jim Scherer has his calves back where they belong. Three of his Holstein calves were stolen from his Freeport farm on Nov. 28, becoming the latest in a string of thefts from central Minnesota dairy farms.
Apple Valley officials are investigating after a woman allegedly poured gasoline inside her Apple Valley home, lit it on fire and threatened to kill herself.
Efforts to win legislative approval of a new publicly-owned Vikings football stadium are coming down to the wire. One of the questions, if a stadium is eventually approved, is where would the new stadium be built?
Five hundred miles west of the Twin Cities is the sprawling Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. It is one of the poorest and most depressed parts of America, where poverty is deep, alcoholism affects eight of 10 families and 70 percent of its children never finish school.
As the nation's retailers continue to celebrate a very positive Black Friday, it appears more is in store for a big Cyber Monday.
As families gathered around the Thanksgiving dinner table, there's a pretty good chance that at some point conversations touched on childhood memories. And some of the fondest of those memories may have involved trees.
Despite a nationwide controversy over full body scans and aggressive airport pat downs of passengers, Minnesotans voiced more concern about just getting to the airport.
News of Lockheed's intentions to phase out the plant by 2013 is sending shock waves throughout the city of 67,000 people.
An annual holiday spending sentiment survey shows Twin Cities' shoppers are feeling more confident about the economy.
In Sebeka, a town of just 700 people, politics and personalities are hard to cover up. And there are no hiding people's feelings for Chief of Police Eric Swenson.
In a place where livestock is a big part of the rural fabric, animal rights can be a sensitive subject. It's one reason a group of students at Eden Valley-Watkins middle school formed a group to discuss the topic.
The day after Thanksgiving is affectionately known as "Black Friday." It's one of the busiest shopping days of the year. But expect to see a lot of those door-busting deals earlier this year, due largely to the recent recession.
On Tim Leonard's Carver County farm, a nice spell of warm and dry fall weather means he's just about to wrap up another bumper crop. But even that bumper harvest can't satisfy a rising world demand for corn and other grains.
For Steve Leighton, the bond to his fellow soldiers formed in 1966, when he was an American advisor to a unit of the 42nd Battalion of South Vietnamese Rangers.
In the dining room of their Victoria home, Steve and Donna Leighton sort through the pictures and patches of a time many would just as soon forget.
