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Dallas - Home furnishings manufacturer Groovystuff announced the names of the four student winners of its "Groovystuff by Design: Connecting Education with Industry Challenge." Students Ian O'Hare , Ami Seuki , Malachi Payne and Bethany DeLine placed first from their respective schools in the popular vote, conducted at the spring High Point Market, ... (more)

Minnesota state Rep. David FitzSimmons "made himself a hero for the cause [of] religious freedom" with his " civil marriage" amendment to what is now the state's new law permitting same-sex marriages .

A miserable start to spring planting for Minnesota farmers has greatly improved with a stretch of better weather.

Margaret Barry from Catholic University Columbus School of Law to Vermont Law School June Carbone from the University of Missouri, Kansas City to the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis-St. Paul.

An appeals court has upheld the murder conviction of Timothy Bakdash of Roseville, who is serving 40 years for the booze-fueled hit-and-run killing of a Wisconsin man.

Washington state's Legislature recently decreed that all statutes be rewritten to incorporate gender-neutral language.

Income tax, cigarette tax increases are in, along with $585 million for Mayo/Rochester and all-day kindergarten.

Main Category: Medical Devices / Diagnostics Also Included In: Cardiovascular / Cardiology ; Public Health Article Date: 20 May 2013 - 0:00 PDT The type of sensors that pick up the rhythm of a beating heart in implanted cardiac defibrillators and pacemakers are vulnerable to tampering, according to a new study conducted in controlled laboratory ... (more)

Matt Sundeen, vice president of sales and commercial lines producer at Maguire Agency, has been named Agent of the Year for 2013 by the Minnesota Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers .

Ball State University is looking into complaints by evolutionists that a science and religion class using material on intelligent design material is promoting Christianity to its students.

In honor of the beloved reality show's 10th birthday, a conversation with Rhonda Loverude, who wrote her doctoral dissertation on hegemonic heterosexuality in ANTM Over the course of its run, the dramatic Tyra Banks-hosted modeling competition-in which contestants try to out-fierce one another on the runway and in photo shoots to win a contract at ... (more)

The decision to be an entrepreneur came when he chose to "Do" rather than to "Be." That bit of advice and nine other insights grabbed us from the speech he gave to University of Minnesota engineering graduates last week.

Police departments and federal agencies across the country are using a certain type of polygraph despite evidence of a technical problem, McClatchy Newspapers has found.

Bill Gleason is an Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology.

Katerina Wong, an Eastview High School student, is one of two Minnesotans to have received a prestigious National Security Language Initiative for Youth scholarship-which will enable her to study in China for a single year.

Born Ashok Kumar Gulati on Sept. 20, 1942, in Gujranwala, India. Son of Jagjit Lal and Leela Wanti Gulati.

Four years ago, the University of Minnesota-Rochester started their first program.

The Friends of the Northfield Public Library welcomed Teresa Jensen, our new Director of the library and IT, with a gathering at the library.

Legend Green pins: 0 to 500 tickets Yellow pins: 500 to 1,500 tickets Red pins: 1,500 or more tickets Police departments that cover multiple cities have a pin in each of the cities they cover.

By Catherine Conlan, Monster Contributing Writer Hiring managers and HR pros will often close out a job interview by asking an applicant if he or she has any questions themselves.