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Curt Brown

Reporter | General Assignment

Phone: 612-673-4767

In addition to covering regional issues and writing profiles, Curt contributes to the “Escape Artists” travel blog and writes bi-weekly Sunday “My Minnesota” mini-profiles, offering a sense-of-place look at intriguing Minnesotans.
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Around again: Old Met's last home plate

After nearly 29 years, the winner of a piece of Twins history reclaimed it from a friend. Now he says he may put it up for sale.

Updated: July 01, 2010, - 09:47 PM

DNA tests turn DWI case on its head

New DNA evidence seems to show the confessed driver was really the passenger in a crash that killed a 19-year-old.

Updated: June 23, 2010, - 06:38 AM

Feelings raw as nurses return from strike

Union accuses 3 hospitals of locking out some nurses.Eeven though the historic strike is technically over, the acrimony and emotional fallout are, if anything, worse.

Updated: June 11, 2010, - 08:01 PM

A birthday three-peat in Coon Rapids

Like mother, like daughter, like granddaughter: A Coon Rapids mom shares a June 1 birthday with her mother and her newborn.

Updated: June 07, 2010, - 09:58 PM

For seven years, monks have had no peace

Vandalism has plagued a Buddhist temple near Rochester for seven years. Neighbors and police are outraged and baffled.

Updated: May 29, 2010, - 08:59 PM

Mike Veeck: Still out in left field

The Saints' Mike Veeck is confident his team's brand of entertainment can survive the new outdoor game in town.

Updated: May 22, 2010, - 10:04 PM

U scientists are battling global wheat scourge

The battlefields are 8,000 miles away in Africa and the Middle East. But a strike force of University of Minnesota plant experts is devising strategies to win a high-stakes war that could prevent famine, starvation and political unrest.

Updated: May 20, 2010, - 08:27 PM

Witness: 'If they saw me, they would have killed me'

An altered jogging route led a retired St. Paul firefighter to ground zero of the deadly police shooting.

Updated: May 05, 2010, - 06:54 AM

Charges: Cop shot in head, his seat belt buckled

Joshua Martin was charged as an accomplice in killing of Maplewood Sgt. Joe Bergeron. 'We smoked that cop,' the charges quote Martin as telling a friend.

Updated: May 03, 2010, - 06:07 PM