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A jury has been seated in the first trial to stem from the sprawling federal investigation into the nonprofit Feeding Our Future.

The Minnesota Vikings took Michigan quarterback J.J. McCarthy with the 10th overall pick in the NFL draft on Thursday night. The Los Angeles Chargers made a Minnesotan the fifth overall selection. Offensive lineman Joe Alt is originally from North Oaks and played for Totino Grace High School.

Artist Carl Gawboy has used his thirty years of experience teaching the history of fur trade relations on Turtle Island, also known as North America, to create hundreds of illustrations depicting stories of Ojibwe people and lifeways centered on entrepreneurship and freedom.

The Hennepin County Attorney’s office appears to be assembling a new prosecution team just days before an important hearing in the case of a state trooper charged with the shooting death of a motorist last July.

Dave Klepaida was one of the good Samaritans who came to the rescue of Sam Orbovich after his car started on fire during an accident on I-94 in St. Paul.

The University of Minnesota said the current students and the employee who were arrested had their civil trespass warnings set aside and are still allowed on campus.

Saturday marks one year since Minnesota became a refuge state for transgender people. The state’s status has reached far beyond its borders, leading a Russian couple to seek safety here in Minnesota.

Cube Critics Max Sparber and Alex V. Cipolle discuss “The Claw” and “The Beast”

In his first State of the City speech, Duluth Mayor Roger Reinert focused on key campaign themes including housing and street repair. He pledged he wouldn’t raise property taxes next year and said a major new housing development would break ground in June.

Residents of Duluth’s Park Point gathered this week to air concerns about rising property values and taxes — worries that have grown in the wake of billionaire Kathy Cargill’s high-profile purchases of several homes in the neighborhood.