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Boston bombing suspects: What's known about Tsarnaev brothers so far?
REUTERS/FBI/HandoutDzhokhar TsarnaevThe suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing case are brothers who appear to have roots in Chechnya, a region of Russia long roiled by Islamic insurgency.But they...
View ArticleNext stop on Gov. Dayton's 'Meeting with Mark' tour is Albert Lea
Gov. Mark Dayton continues his series of trips around the state to talk about the state budget with a stop in Albert Lea on Monday.He'll be at the Albert Lea High School at 6 p.m. on April 22 for his...
View ArticleThoughts on the Boston bombing developments
Thoughts on Boston/Cambridge/Watertown (based on nothing more than the amazing live TV coverage, mostly by CNN, which seems to have sent their whole organization to Boston):We need to be extremely...
View ArticleSt. Paul youth activities get $16,000 raised at Midway Men's Club State Fair...
St. Paul officials have accepted a $16,000 donation from the Midway Men's Club and say they'll use the money for youth activities around the city.The group raised the money at its concession stand at...
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Testimony: Michele Bachmann knew of improper payouts
Since the hometown press isn’t exactly all over this ... Jennifer Jacobs of the Des Moines Register reports: “Congresswoman Michele Bachmann was aware of the financial arrangement between an Iowa...
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Testy times at the Capitol as angry Republicans walk out of committee meeting
These are testy times at the Capitol.A dozen Republicans walked out of a noontime House Ways and Means Committee session Friday, saying they were angry over “process.”Interestingly, the GOP didn’t...
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Minneapolis Gateway redevelopment planted seeds of revival
CC/Flickr/ya3hs3The Gateway redevelopment gave us the elegant Northwestern National Life Insurance Building (now ING, 20 Washington Ave. S.) whose graceful columns continue to anchor the Nicollet...
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Meet the new face of STEM: Shefali Mehta
Meet a woman who received a microscope as a gift when she was 8 years old, and was thrilled by it. A woman who took the SAT exam when she was in seventh grade, so she could qualify for a teen algebra...
View ArticleWhere Bachmann campaign probes stand after a busy week
There’s been a good amount of movement in the various ethics investigations into Rep. Michele Bachmann’s presidential campaign this week, so let’s recap.Here’s one potentially new detail right off the...
View ArticleTalking with the taxman about poetry — and deductions
“Talking With The Taxman About Poetry” is the whimsically named 1986 album by Billy Bragg and 1926 poem by Russian and Soviet poet Vladimir Vladimirovich, but there’s nothing whimsical about the...
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Bob Dylan at Midway July 10; SPCO musicians voting by mail
In June, Bob Dylan will launch a summer tour that would knock most people flat, even those who aren’t 71 years old. (He’s currently on a spring tour that runs through May 5.) He’s coming to Midway...
View ArticleArtisan coffee comes to North Korea
Curious coffee lovers now have a reason to visit North Korea.Pyongyang is home to a hip new coffeeshop serving "third wave" coffee -- a buzzword that marks a recent generation of specialty and...
View ArticleFAA furloughs staff: Sequest-Air has landed, and flights are late
Planes arriving in the airspace above New York area airports Sunday night began to stack up in holding patterns, with delays ultimately stretching out to about 80 minutes. In Los Angeles delays on...
View ArticleIn US-China talks on cyber conflict, a top Chinese general owns to dangers
Whenever US officials visit China these days, they come with a high-priority mission: to emphasize how much damage China-based cyberattacks are doing to the relationship between the two nations.So, is...
View ArticleCanadian police arrest two suspects in alleged bomb plot
Canadian police arrested several suspects Monday after an alleged terrorist bombing plot.Authorities apprehended what they called an Al Qaeda-supported attack on a busy route of Canada's national...
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Navarre Corp. plans to cut 148 Minnesota jobs
A Minnesota logistics and supply-chain management company is poised to cut about 150 jobs as it shuts down and relocates a significant portion of its New Hope operations.Navarre Corporation recently...
View ArticleExplosion outside French Embassy in Libya highlights security challenges
A bomb that exploded outside the French Embassy in Tripoli marks the first time that a diplomatic mission in the Libyan capital has been targeted by terrorists since the take down of Muammar Qaddafi in...
View ArticleBoston bombing: Amid city's slow return to normalcy, a moment of silence
While the city of Boston is trying to get back to business as usual, many of its residents are still grappling with the tragic attack at last week’s Boston Marathon, in which three people were killed...
View ArticleIn US affidavit on Boston bombing, new details about what happened
Near midnight of April 18, 2013, a driver sat alone in his Mercedes SUV on a street in Cambridge, Mass. Hearing a tap, he rolled his window down. Suddenly a man reached in, opened the door, and jumped...
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'Soda wars' tactics are reminiscent of earlier 'lead wars,' historians find
CC/Wikimedia Commons/Thester11Starting in the 1920s, the lead industry organized to fight bans, restrictions, even warnings on paint-can labels.Many public-health officials and others have argued that...
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