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Pulltabs, other charitable gambling up 8.6 percent across Minnesota
After a decadelong slide, pulltabs, bingo and other forms of charitable gambling are bouncing back in Minnesota, with gross receipts expected to top $1.1 billion, according to the Minnesota Gambling Control Board. Updated 9:16 PM
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Peterson's foot injury not believed to be serious
The initial exams revealed no serious damage, but Adrian Peterson's status for Sunday’s game remains unclear.
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St. Paul to get more plows, new leadership to manage snow removal
Mayor Chris Coleman, responding to a chorus of complaints about slick and bumpy city streets following last week’s storm, is doubling the city’s use of salt and sand, speeding up the purchase of new trucks and shaking up management of its street maintenance division.
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Government sells remaining stake in GM, loses $10.5 billion on bailout
The Treasury Department sold its final shares of the Detroit auto giant on Monday, recovering $39 billion of the $49.5 billion it spent to save the dying automaker at the height of the financial crisis five years ago.
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Brain bypass helps North Dakota teen injured by shotgun blast
Dr. Eric Nussbaum, a neurosurgeon at United Hospital in St. Paul, applied a common procedure to an uncommon wound after a 14-year-old Kaelan Macdonald was injured in a hunting accident that sent a stray pellet zipping between his left eye and eye socket to lodge inside an artery in his brain.
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Backers push anti-bullying bill in 2014 Minn. legislative session
Efforts to strengthen and expand on the state’s 37-word law gained momentum as a legislative showdown begins to take shape...
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Cold dis-comfort: Antarctica set record of -135.8
Feeling chilly? Here's cold comfort: You could be in East Antarctica which new data says set a record for "soul-crushing" cold.
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Mourners in South Africa flock to Mandela memorial service
Joyous, singing South Africans are pouring into massive memorial service for Nelson Mandela that is expected to draw some 100 heads of state and other luminaries, united in tribute to a global symbol of reconciliation.
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Texas woman expected to pleady guility to sending ricin to Obama
A Texas woman is expected to plead guilty to sending ricin-laced letters to President Barack Obama and New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg.
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Too many scrape by with 'peephole driving'
“Peephole driving” is the death-defying belief that peering through a Frisbee-sized porthole in your windshield enables you to see well enough to drive in winter.
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Andrew Lloyd Webber's 'Oz' opens at St. Paul's Ordway
REVIEW: Andrew Lloyd Webber's adaptation of the Judy Garland film sweeps a viewer into its mysterious world like the tornado that spirits Dorothy from Kansas to Oz.
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3 Twin Cities acts named in A.V. Club's Year in Band Names rundown
Among the locals featured in the annual tally: one jam band, one art-popper and one all-time favorite.
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