Friday, November 27, 2009
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Church movement aims to reclaim Christmas
More and more congregations spend Black Friday rethinking consumption.
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
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Santa Claus needs sanitizer, too
Not deemed worthy of early H1N1 flu vaccination, mall Santas are counting on hand sanitizers and the kindness of strangers (to keep their sick children at home).
More North Metro News
- Now riders, nonriders can add up value of Northstar
- Armed bank robber sentenced to 10 years under plea agreement
- Northstar fine-tunes runs for workers, fans
- Anoka County closes jail, cuts costs
- Groundbreaking must wait for Hipp Farm in Blaine
- Anoka County burn clears way for life
- An assist for youth
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
Holiday lights: Send us suggestions
If you have an amazing holiday display, or know someone who has one, please send the information to us for our interactive map.
More East Metro News
- State trooper escapes injury when squad is hit by drunken driver
- Washington County takes harder look at low-income housing
- 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
- A new generation of high school sports coverage
East Metro prep sports
- 5A: QB Alt is back at his peak after injury interruption
- 4A: Seniors keep Sabres unbeaten
- Totino-Grace defense faces stiff challenge in Sartell
Today's East Metro events
South Metro
Empty rail cars are riling up neighbors in Lakeville
The cars being stored on tracks near homes have drawn graffiti and loitering. The owner says there is nowhere else to put them.
More South Metro News
- State trooper escapes injury when squad is hit by drunken driver
- Rollover closes ramp from Hwy 52 South to I-494 East
- 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
South Metro prep sports
- Eagles dare foes to score; they rarely do
- Title drought ongoing for southern hockey teams
- All-metro second, third teams
Today's South Metro events
West Metro
Wanted for St. Louis Park: A poet who knows it
Residents of St. Louis Park, it's time to wax rhapsodic.
More West Metro News
- Now riders, nonriders can add up value of Northstar
- Bloomington mother, daughter convicted in day-care death
- 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
West Metro prep sports
- Eagles dare foes to score; they rarely do
- 5A: QB Alt is back at his peak after injury interruption
- 2009 Prep Bowl is on!
Today's West Metro events
Now riders, nonriders can add up value of Northstar
Choosing to take the shiny new commuter train known as the Northstar Line (or not) is a personal numbers game.
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All aboard: Northstar commuter railA touch of home on Thanksgiving
Members of a Minnesota National Guard company in Afghanistan played touch football in a Morale Bowl, of sorts.
Santa Claus needs sanitizer, too
Not deemed worthy of early H1N1 flu vaccination, mall Santas are counting on hand sanitizers and the kindness of strangers (to keep their sick children at home).
State trooper escapes injury when squad is hit by drunken driver
The State Patrol's crackdown led to 33 arrests.
Two held in shooting that killed St. Paul teenager
A 15-year-old boy was shot to death Thanksgiving morning in St. Paul and two people have been arrested, although police say they are still trying to figure out whether the shooting was accidental.
Minneapolis residents repel intruder, call police, get hauled in
A man dressed in what appeared to be a hazardous-materials suit attempted to break in to a northeast Minneapolis house where there was an apparent marijuana-growing operation, but his effort Thursday morning was foiled by the homeowners, police said.
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- Pawlenty's lawyer defends cuts to nutrition program
- Effort builds to repeal nuclear power ban
- Legislators take a field trip to the Metrodome
- Library is pressed to take gang force report off Web
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