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As he contemplates the closure of a nearly 100-year-old family-owned trucking business, Duluth's Mike Monson is struggling to find a glimmer of hope.

Past and present taconite workers will receive letters from the University of Minnesota in coming weeks inviting them to participate in a massive screening for a rare lung disease.

A random sample of current and former Iron Range taconite workers will receive letters inviting them to participate in a screening program for a rare lung disease.

Submitted by Journal Staff on June 25, 2009 - 12:33pm. Community News The Northern Lights Association annual trek to Koochiching County Senior Center, International Falls, is set for July 10.

It's likely the city of Virginia, Minn. is already done repainting their prized water tower back to its original name, but for some time this weekend, the town was all queer.

A highly visible act of vandalism in Virginia. Someone climbed on top of the downtown water tower, and changed the lettering from "Queen City," to "Queer City." Police got the call early Monday morning.

Filing criminal complaints in Minnesota has its challenges shared by metro police officers and county sheriff's deputies alike.

KBZK/KXLF chief meteorologist Mike Heard is taking some time off over the next couple to pursue another passion.

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2) Which performance, song, play, movie, painting or other work of artA had the biggest influence on you and why? I'm not sure I can name a single work of art that was/is most important.A As a fiction writer and playwright, I am still more guided by my musical sensibility than anything else.A I was a musician first, a guitar and bass player, and ...

Submitted by acohill on Fri, 06/05/2009 - 07:57. Google Squared is an odd little Google experiment that the company just released, probably to try to counter the even odder Wolfram Alpha search tool.

Despite pending federal legislation that promotes renewable, clean energy and creates new jobs, people in rural areas are being denied the promise of a green economy, according to the American Loggers Council .

Yukon was primed, tense, his legs ready to spring. "Yukon!" Chuck Schweikert commanded.

Retailers Jim and Julianne Paulsen of Rocks the Jewelers in Virginia, Minn., run a company that facilitates gold parties, like this local gathering held in March.

In January, I told the story of Sami DeBenedet, now 6. Diagnosed two and a half years ago with the incurable disease neurofibromatosis, tumors will grow on nerves anywhere on or in Sami's body throughout his life.

A St. Paul man has pleaded guilty to killing another man in 2005, then sinking the body in a northern Minnesota lake.

Here is the latest Minnesota news from The Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS Classes resume today at two Twin Cities schools that had closed out of concern over probable cases of swine flu.

The "Untold Stories" series continues Thursday, May 7, with poet Mark Nowak reading from his new collection, Coal Mountain Elementary, and the Twin Cities Labor Chorus conducting its premiere performance.

Wetherill was arrested in August 2007 in south Minneapolis. He is expected to appear Tuesday in St.

Daniel Zamlen, an 18-year-old freshman at the University of St. Thomas from Eveleth, Minn., had been missing since April 5. A body recovered from the Mississippi River is confirmed to be that of a University of St.