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The owner of a White Bear Lake tattoo parlor charged this week in connection with a cross-country scheme to buy and sell stolen body parts was open about his collection in online posts before his indictment. Matthew R. Lampi, 52, of East Bethel, was indicted this week on charges of conspiracy and interstate transport of stolen goods: human remains including brains, lungs and stillborn babies, ...

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Re: “Some Mother’s Day memories are complicated — I had put up boundaries for my own protection. Then I had to tear them down,” by Peggy Wehmeyer, Sunday...

Airports will be thrown into chaos next week as security workers walk off the job, just days out from Christmas. 

The DOE-funded collaboration will help make computer modeling more potent, actionable for the future of plasma science and sustainable energy

Here's a look at the engineers making meaningful contributions to code and community, especially amid a challenging year.

The dangerous illegal drug fentanyl was seized in a Barling traffic stop where methamphetamine and fentanyl were seized.

Bidding on the 17 cars topped $900,000 Tuesday — two days before the auction is scheduled to end.

Early readers of the Chicago Tribune often referred to the paper not by its name but as “the Andy Gump paper,” demonstrating an importance comics had in the daily lives of readers that is hard to imagine today, writes Rick Kogan.

Stephen Becker produces the shows Thinkand Anything You Ever Wanted to Know. For five years, as part of the Art&Seek team, Stephen produced radio and digital stories, along with the podcast "The Big Screen," with Chris Vognar, movie critic of The Dallas Morning News. His 2011 story about the history of eight-track tapes was featured nationally on NPR’s All Things Considered. Before coming to KERA, Stephen was the film and television editor at The Dallas Morning News. In 2008, he ...