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After a string of lawsuits and settlements with students' families and former employees, costs of legal insurance for St. Paul Public Schools jumped almost 280 percent this year.

Victor Barnard had always been known as a charismatic leader with an easy smile and pleasant demeanor.

The rookie City Council's agenda involving goats , Styrofoam and earplugs in recent months earned Lisa Bender some ribbing Monday night during an interview interspersed with improv comedy at Bryant Lake Bowl.

To truly get a taste of Minnesota's finest beers, sometimes it's best to make a weekend of it.

Minneapolis may ax Columbus Day on sctimes.com: http://www.sctimes.com/story/news/local/minnesota/2014/04/22/minneapolis-may-ax-columbus-day/8016405/ The City Council is expected to vote Friday on a resolution that would rename the federal holiday "Indigenous People's Day" on all city communications.

The third stop of the 2014 Come Up Tour presented by etnies went down this past weekend in Minneapolis, Minnesota at the Familia HQ Skatepark.

Microsoft Technology Centers are uniquely equipped to help customers innovate - to imagine the possibilities and then quickly design and develop solutions.

Obento-ya and Tanpopo. They really do a good job of retaining the cultural aspect, not just focusing on sushi.

Indeed, passage from the "nicest" state in the union to the politest country in the Western Hemisphere is downright pleasant.

Attorneys for a man suing the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis plan to release a deposition transcript and video clips from the deposition of Archbishop Nienstedt Tuesday at 11 a.m. The plaintiff in the suit has alleged abuse at the hands of a priest in the 1970s.

According to the Star-Tribune , a small dog was killed after being attacked by a large-breed dog on Sunday night at the Martin Luther King Jr. park in Minneapolis, Minn.

Michael Hall's new picture book "It's an Orange Aardvark!" is a featured selection in the Children's Book of the Month Club and will be read Thursday in more than 600 Barnes & Noble stores across the country.

Minneapolis is a city which boasts of many dumpster rental companies. Therefore residents do not have to search very hard when garbage gets accumulated in their homes or any other property.

So you think that getting government certification will put your small business on Easy Street? It doesn't exactly work that way, but it can't hurt, according to experts in the field.

Minneapolis, already stewing over the idea of the Southwest Light Rail plan that runs through the Kennilworth Corridor, grew even more upset Friday when plans showed the trains running above grade, not below it.

The yearly Best of the Twin Cities soiree is Thursday. After spending this past week celebrating the finest in everything our magnificent metro has to offer, it's high time to kick back, drape ourselves in the glamor of old Hollywood, and party down.

Minnehaha Senior Living residents, clockwise, Maurice Shaw, partly visible lower left, Clarice Jepson, Shirley Schoenike, Peter Martin, Gordy Parker and Jennie Berlovitz sat down for a game of Texas Hold 'em at the new housing complex in south Minneapolis.

Minneapolis, MN April 20, 2014 CyberPower Systems , Inc., a global leader of innovative power protection and power distribution equipment for data center and SMB environments, recently announced that it has been recognized in the CRN Data Center 100 annual list, featuring technology vendors whose solutions are vital for powering today's data ... (more)

There's been a surge in requests to repair broken Minneapolis streetlights, but location has played a part in levels of service.

Saturday, April 26, may be just another day in the Twin Cities, but it's a day the Twin Cities will broadcast to the world.