Thursday, November 26, 2009
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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.
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 
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Reporter's Notebook: Judge vs. juror
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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
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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
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.
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- 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
- Lakeville Arts Center may seek endowment
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
Wanted for St. Louis Park: A poet who knows it
Residents of St. Louis Park, it's time to wax rhapsodic.
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- 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
Today's West Metro events
A 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 driver's arrest was one of 33 made by the State Patrol statewide as part of a Thanksgiving crackdown.
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 arrested
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.
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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- Pawlenty's lawyer defends cuts to nutrition program
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