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The points were split when the Moose Lake Area Rebels and the Dodge County Wildcats met on Friday. The game ended 1-1.

In Minnesota, as in much of the country, alternative approaches to handling youth crimes have been slow to gain public support. But Colorado has overcome these obstacles through a series of hard-won legislative victories and a commitment to measuring outcomes.

MINNEAPOLIS — There was a shooting inside the Mall of America on Friday night, a spokesman for the Bloomington Police Department has confirmed.

Extended youth probation was once heralded as an innovative alternative to prison for adolescents who commit violent crimes. Instead, an alarming number end up incarcerated for minor probation offenses.

As youth detention centers close, Minnesota runs out of places to rehabilitate kids who commit serious crimes.

Pour your favorite blend, put on Frank Sinatra’s “The Coffee Song” and dance, highly caffeinated, through the kitchen, for today is the mother of all holidays: National Coffee Day.

A Q&A with Star Tribune reporter Andy Mannix

More than a dozen Star Tribune reporters and photographers set out on a recent Saturday to document a city in transition.

Each day, Minnesota judges and prosecutors make life-altering decisions about children who break the law. Most kids end up entangled in the county court system, but some youth are offered an alternative, known as diversion. A child’s future can hinge on the path that is chosen.