Downtown Minneapolis highway closure could trigger traffic tangle this weekend
The closure of I-94 from Hwy. 55 to I-394 starts Friday night and lasts until Monday morning.
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Minnesota weather: Patchy sunshine, quiet and comfortable Friday
Friday brings a mostly dry day across Minnesota as clouds attempt to thin for some filtered afternoon sunshine, though more rain is on the way for the start of the weekend....
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Meet the Lynx: The WNBA’s top playoff seed is chasing the franchise’s fifth championship
Olivia Miles, Napheesa Collier and Kayla McBride headline a deep Lynx roster. Here’s who to know and what to watch as they open the playoffs against the Liberty....
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Ken Barlow is forecasting a cloudy…but mild Friday
Good Friday morning! Today will be a cloudy, mild and dry day. Areas of fog this morning will thin out, but it will remain mostly cloudy through the day. A few sunny breaks are possible this afternoon, but the clouds will hang tough. A few more showers are headed our way on Satur...
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Some Minnesota State campuses likely to close amid financial strain
The warning comes the same week the U of M says it needs to cut its budget by $225 million.
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New food tours are serving up different tastes of the Twin Cities
Routes in Minneapolis, St. Paul and Stillwater are winning over travelers with ‘Lutheran sushi’ — and helping locals rediscover their own backyards.
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Vikings are getting big returns from their young D-line — without making a dent in the salary cap
Jalen Redmond and Levi Drake Rodriguez headline a young six-man unit that counts just $9.4 million against the salary cap and has emerged as an early strength for the 2-0 Vikings....
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CDC vaccine recommendations are at a standstill, and unanswered questions are piling up
NEW YORK (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration recently approved a new flu vaccine that tested well in older adults. But the federal agency responsible for telling doctors and the general public how to use it has made no recommendation on it. The Centers for Disease Control and...
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Brehm: Minneapolis needs to eliminate addiction. Instead, it’s enabling it.
Permanent infrastructure is a statement of expectation: Installing sharps containers says we expect drug use here.
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Cheers & Jeers: Candidate debates, Jacob Frey’s advice, MSP Airport’s escape hatch and more
Plus: Jeers to Omar Jamal’s long-running grift and KARE-11’s removal of Jana Shortal from the airwaves.
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Lynx end late-season skid with rout of Fever, enter playoffs on a high note: ‘We found our mojo’
Playing without rookie star Olivia Miles, the Lynx led by as many as 36 points in their 86-66 win over Indiana. Minnesota opens the WNBA playoffs Sunday against the Liberty....
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Yemen’s civil war returns and overwhelms hospitals with ‘a very dangerous situation’
ADEN, Yemen (AP) — Tarek al-Salami, aged 7, sat in a diaper, looking frail. Normally, the malnutrition and diarrhea that weakened his tiny frame would have been treated within a few days, but nothing is normal in Yemen anymore. Tarek’s father carried him on foot from the southwes...