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Richard Meryhew

Reporter | Regional

Phone: 612-673-4425

Richard Meryhew covers state news. In 2006, he authored an award-winning series on Kirby Puckett's life and he has played a key role in team coverage of many of the state's biggest stories in recent years.

Doctors who err escape penalties

The Minnesota Board of Medical Practice often shies away from punishing doctors whose mistakes harm patients or who demonstrate a pattern of substandard care, a Star Tribune investigation has found.

Updated: February 06, 2012, - 06:01 PM

Minimum standards mean less discipline

Despite lawsuits and loss of surgical privileges, one doctor wasn't suspended until he failed to accept supervision.

Updated: February 06, 2012, - 04:42 PM

State fails to offer full disclosure

Minnesota's medical board doesn't provide access to malpractice awards and other records that are readily available in other states.

Updated: February 06, 2012, - 03:59 PM

March 28, 2008: Agonizing wait ends for news from Iraq

They don't know how or when he died or whether he was tortured. They don't know where his body was...

Updated: December 13, 2011, - 11:02 AM

Bringing 9/11 home

A World Trade Center beam from New York City forms the centerpiece of a memorial planned for Marshall, Minn.

Updated: August 10, 2011, - 10:25 AM

July 2: State shutdown hits home - and wallet

Layoffs and curtailed services in wake of budget impasse have some Minnesotans angry, others fearful.

Updated: July 01, 2011, - 10:55 PM

Driving I-94 from city to city now borderline nuts

Construction projects in the busy area where Minneapolis and St. Paul meet are slowing and frustrating commuters.

Updated: June 04, 2011, - 11:22 PM

Voters say: Enough already

In politically diverse House District 25B, folks wonder how compromise became a four-letter word at the Capitol.

Updated: May 29, 2011, - 09:32 PM

May 22: North Minneapolis tornado toll $166 million and likely to rise

Hundreds of residents left homeless by Sunday’s tornado sifted through the ruin of their homes and neighborhood amid a treacherous landscape of downed trees and power lines.

Updated: May 23, 2011, - 11:30 PM