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For 3rd straight year, Minnetonka school sending student to National Spelling Bee
Will Rooke turned away 48 competitors during last week's metro competition. Five others from the state also made it.
Business
Healthy eating is riding high in America – and so are Twinkies
A food industry report ranked Hostess second among growth leaders for midsize companies, behind Greek yogurt company Chobani.
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Rural Minn. hospitals fear fallout as work visas slow
As populations age in rural parts of the state and region, hospitals and clinics increasingly rely on immigrant doctors
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AP Exclusive: Price tag of North Carolina's LGBT law: $3.76B
Despite Republican assurances that North Carolina's "bathroom bill" isn't hurting the economy, the law limiting LGBT protections will cost the state more than $3.76 billion in lost business over a dozen years, according to an Associated Press analysis.
Senate to question Kushner over meetings with Russians
Senate investigators plan to question the president's son-in-law as part of their broad inquiry into ties between Trump associates and Russian officials or others linked to the Kremlin.
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California city to track every vehicle that enters
Cameras will scan vehicle license plates in Carlsbad.
Rachel Dolezal struggles after racial identity scandal
A white civil rights leader, fired because she led others to believe she was black, said she struggles to make a living these days because she was portrayed as a fraud.
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White House plans to pin blame on Ryan if health bill fails
Ryan had sought to carefully build a majority for the bill, but he had little choice but go along with the administration's gambit for a Friday vote.
Top Senate Dem opposes Supreme Court pick, vows filibuster
Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch "was unable to sufficiently convince me that he'd be an independent check" on President Donald Trump, Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer said.
Death rates up for middle age whites with little education
A sobering portrait of less-educated middle-age white Americans emerged Thursday with new research showing them dying disproportionately from what one expert calls "deaths of despair" — suicides, drug overdoses and alcohol-related diseases.
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Four dead in central Wisconsin, suspect caught
A police officer and three other people were shot dead in three separate towns in central Wisconsin on Wednesday. A suspect was taken into custody after a standoff that lasted several hours.
Hard times for Sears as retailer notes doubt about future
Sears, a back-to-school shopping destination for generations of kids, has said that after years of losing money that there is "substantial doubt" it will be able to keep its doors open. But it also insisted that its actions to turn around its business should help reduce that risk.
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Dylann Roof's friend gets 27 months for hampering investigation into church massacre
He impeded investigation into 2015 shooting at historic black church.
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Arkansas ends Robert E. Lee-Martin Luther King Jr. holiday
Arkansas' governor signed legislation Tuesday ending the state's practice of commemorating Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee on the same holiday as slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., leaving only two states remaining that honor the two men on the same day.
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