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Exploring the legal trade in at-risk wildlife
This is not the highly publicized, illicit trafficking in such goods as ivory and rhino horns. Millions of vulnerable wildlife specimens are legally admitted through U.S. customs each year.
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The fine art of eating gross amounts of food
In the end you eat too much, throw away less than you'd like, and wish that someone would put motor oil down by the transit plaza so you could be dragged by a rope to the bus.
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Duluth enjoying a new image, and it's been long in the making
Such positive attention is the envy of midsize cities across America. So how did Duluth do it? City leaders started long, long ago with careful plans, lots of patience and, most recently, loud cheerleading.
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Misdiagnoses are getting a closer look with help of local doctor
Doctors and safety advocates have targeted many causes of patient harm — such as bungled prescriptions, excessive imaging scans and wrong-site surgeries — but have given little attention to an equally common cause: making the wrong diagnosis.
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Motorcyclist killed in Washington County crash
The fatal crash occurred just before 8 p.m. on Saturday.
Lion trophies just a drop in vast exotic species trade
Vulnerable but coveted, animals and plants at risk of being endangered are traded into the U.S. every year, and it's completely legal.
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Gallery: Carrie Underwood performs to a sold-out crowd
Carrie Underwood performs to a sold-out crowd at the Minnesota State Fair in Falcon Heights August 29, 2015.
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Following national trend, nonprofits grow in Minnesota's smallest towns
Rural counties have seen number of organizations rise even as populations have fallen
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Gallery: Duluth, a rebirth on Lake Superior
So many towns in Minnesota are constantly trying to remake themselves. It's working in Duluth.
Changing Minneapolis puts squeeze on industrial land
Factories and warehouses now occupied by churches, schools and apartments.
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Runaway truck damages Duluth's Sacred Heart Music Center
The nonprofit estimated $50,000 in damages and vowed to pursue repairs.
Minnesota summers lure the faithful from their pews
A new study finds that U.S. counties with the highest volume of "natural amenities" have some of lowest rates of church membership.
Downtown St. Paul library to close this fall for renovations
Updates will include innovation center and new spaces for meetings.
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