Thursday, November 26, 2009
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State trooper escapes injury when squad is hit by drunken driver
The driver's arrest was one of 33 made by the State Patrol statewide as part of a Thanksgiving crackdown.
Thanksgiving Day walk to end hunger
How to cook a turkey: Fernbrook Elementary
NewsBreak for Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009
Reporter's Notebook: A seedy solution
Bus crash investigation
From the scene of tour bus accident 
Free Caribou Coffee?
Reporter's Notebook: Judge vs. juror
NewsBreak for Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009
NewsBreak for Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009North Metro
Northstar fine-tunes runs for workers, fans
The rail line shifted weekday downtown departures by 5 minutes, and added a run after the Vikings-Bears game.
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North Metro prep sports
- Totino-Grace turns to its star time and again
- Drama is gone as Centennial girls pull together
- Totino-Grace defense faces stiff challenge in Sartell
Today's North Metro events
East Metro
Washington County takes harder look at low-income housing
The housing authority takes some heat in Washington County as some commissioners question need for funding.
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- Holiday lights: Send us suggestions
- Washington County raises cost of going to jail
- Federal prosecutor to join First District Court in Hastings
- Enhanced penalty possible for West St. Paul teacher guilty of sex abuse
- Minnesota may use private prison in Appleton
- Video advances are a big crime-solving aid in metro area
- A new generation of high school sports coverage
East Metro prep sports
- Totino-Grace defense faces stiff challenge in Sartell
- All-metro second, third teams
- Eden Prairie takes red-eye flight
Today's East Metro events
South Metro
Rollover closes ramp from Hwy 52 South to I-494 East
An southeast-metro highway ramp remained closed Wednesday night, hours after a semitrailer truck rolled over.
More South Metro News
- Charges allege dad molested baby sitter
- Bloomington mother, daughter convicted in day-care death
- Perking up in Shakopee
- Movable barriers could ease south-metro traffic
- Scott County: Infrastructure, transit top issues
- Lakeville Arts Center may seek endowment
- Northfield's beloved bookmobile goes back in garage
South Metro prep sports
- Title drought ongoing for southern hockey teams
- All-metro second, third teams
- Tuesday's prep schedule
Today's South Metro events
West Metro
Bloomington mother, daughter convicted in day-care death
Demar Hicks, 22 months, died of asphyxiation after being strapped too tightly in a car seat while no adults were around.
Photo right: Harmony Newman
More West Metro News
- Feeding a need to help others
- Charges: Buffalo High teen killed by wrong-way driver
- A bridge worth saving, but no money to save it
- Wal-Mart tries to fit Eden Prairie’s vision for future
- Losing trees but saving 'hoot' habitat
- Bending the waters of Nine Mile Creek
- St. Louis Park will replace fire stations
West Metro prep sports
Today's West Metro events
1 dead in St. Paul shooting; four others being questioned
A man was shot to death Thanksgiving morning in St. Paul, and police are trying to determine whether or not the shooting was accidental.
NE Minneapolis home invasion leads police to pot-growing operation
A man dressed up in what appeared to be a Haz-Mat suit attempted to break into a northeast Minneapolis house Thursday morning, but his effort was foiled by the homeowners, police said.
Feeding a need to help others
A snippy comment at church sparked a Chaska couple's enduring effort to help fill the food shelves Up North.
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Generous heartsMinn. man charged in UI vandalism to stay in jail
A federal magistrate has ordered a Minnesota activist arrested in the 2004 animal rights vandalism at the University of Iowa to remain in jail so prosecutors can appeal an order to release him pending trial.
Charges: Buffalo High teen killed by wrong-way driver
Todd Lifto was charged with criminal vehicular homicide with DWI charges possible, the Wright County attorney said, in the death of Buffalo High senior Jonathon Kramnic.
Photo right: Todd Lifto
Bloomington mother, daughter convicted in day-care death
Demar Hicks, 22 months, died of asphyxiation after being strapped too tightly in a car seat while no adults were around.
Photo right: Harmony Newman
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