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The Minnesota Fringe Festival opened Friday in Minneapolis, and one of the performances being presented throughout the next ten days is "Hermann the German: The Scandal That Rocked New Ulm."

Minority teachers needed to increase diversity in Minn. schools Most teachers white despite growing immigrant population Check out this story on sctimes.com: http://www.sctimes.com/story/news/local/minnesota/2014/08/01/minority-teachers-needed-increase-diversity-school/13498903/ Minnesota ranks just below the national average on the ratio of ... (more)

The Standish and Ericsson neighborhoods have many assets: lakes, parks, restaurants, shops, light rail, a farm.

It has been more than two decades since Marie DeNicola launched Mainstream Boutique.

On this date in 2007, 13 people were killed when the I-35 West bridge collapsed in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Jim Williams has been watching birds and writing about their antics since before "Gilligan's Island" went into reruns.

Minneapolis-area police have arrested a man in connection to an armed robbery that left a man lying in the road with a gunshot wound.

Seventeen-year-old Lucy is staying at her grandparents' tiny cabin in northern Minnesota for the summer.

Oxygen is discovered, Adolf Hitler presides over the opening of the Olympics, a new superhero is introduced, tragedy strikes the University of Texas, and a new all-music TV network debuts, all on this day.

Who: Andy Vyskocil is executive chef, Rival House Sporting Parlour, 411 Minnesota St., St. Paul; 651- 255-0645; rivalhousestpaul.com A firefighter or a race-car driver.

This year's FLOW Northside Arts Crawl brought more than just great art. Organizers promoted healthy eating as one of the main messages of the festival.

Shakir was interred in Marion Memorial Garden Cemetery on Saturday, July 12, in his hometown of Salters, S.C. A memorial celebration of life for him is scheduled for Sunday, August 10 at 3 p.m. at Macalester College Weyerhaeuser Chapel located at Grand Avenue and Macalester Street in St. Paul.

Anti-abortion activists in Minnesota are protesting outside of a new Planned Parenthood affiliate in Richfield despite the fact that the facility doesn't offer abortion procedures, Cosmopolitan reported .

The Minnesota Department of Transportation tells the Mankato Free Press that GeoStabilization International of Grand Junction, Colorado, has begun work on Highway 19. The east-west route that crosses near Minneapolis has been closed since June.

Dr. Lisa Freitag is a former pediatrician in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She wrote some guest posts for us in 2013, and we are delighted to have more of her insightful presence here.

Arepas are made with cornmeal, from a dough similar to tamale masa that's been formed into a thick patty and griddled.

Morning rush hour traffic backed up near Loring Park and the Walker Art Center, near the entrances to 35W-I94, Lyndale Ave South and Hennepin Ave South.

U.S. House Speaker John Boehner is scheduled to make an appearance in Minneapolis next month.

Whitewater has developed a series of more than 60 online courses that teachers can take on their own time and use to meet licensing requirements.

The first taproom in either downtown, this cool space with floor-to-ceiling windows in the first floor of the Rossmor Building has been packed since day one.