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Minnesota Poll Confidence in personal finances up sharply
A new Minnesota Poll shows that 61 percent of Minnesotans rated their financial situation as good or excellent in June, a huge jump from February, when 45 percent gave their finances positive marks. An additional 29 percent rated their finances as fair, while 8 percent said their finances are ...
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Pilot who died in chopper crash was skilled respected
MAPLEWOOD, Minn. -- The pilot who died in a fiery helicopter crash in this east metro suburb Wednesday was a skilled, experience flyer and was remembered as a generous, loving family man. Mike Kramer flying dropping mosquito control pellets in ponds and marshes when his helicopter appeared to stall and fall from the sky. His Bell 47 chopper landed in an unoccupied garage in Maplewood and ...
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Mom Of Kidnapped Baby Says She’d Forgive The Suspect Her Friend
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – The mother of a 2-month-old baby taken from her home Tuesday says she forgives the woman accused of kidnapping her child. ';I’m not going to put her out as a bad person," said Christina Alonzo. "She is a really good person. I’ve known her for so long.'; Alonzo says the suspect, Thalia Benson, is a close family friend. Police arrested ...
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‘Just A Regular Guy From St. Paul’ Frank Remembers Vince Flynn
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Vince Flynn will be remembered around the world as the man who wrote enthralling political thrillers that millions of people couldn’t put down. But to me, and many others, he was a great friend, and just a regular guy from St. ...
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Good Question What Can You Buy With Food Stamps
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – In an average month, 514,900 Minnesotans receive SNAP benefits, formerly known as food stamps. The average monthly payment is $117.26 per person. In a visit to Bergan's SuperValu Foods, WCCO loaded seven items into a grocery cart - cookies, candy, ice cream, dishwashing detergent, hot macaroni and cheese, dog food, and steak - to test shoppers on their knowledge ...
Movie Review
Moneyball
Moneyball takes the underdog sports genre, one of the most fabled of Hollywoods fabled story arcs, and turns it inside out by taking us off the field of play and into the back offices of major league baseball, giving us a fascinating glimpse into all the managing, strategizing, tradin ... ...
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Northland Still Rebuilding After Devastating Floods
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – One year ago, Minnesota’s northland experienced some of the worst flooding it had seen in years. Heavy rain came so fast that roads washed away, creating large sinkholes. More than 3,000 homes were damaged. At the Lake Superior Zoo, some of the barnyard animals died, and two seals and a polar bear briefly escaped. One year later, Duluth and the surrounding ...
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Dozier Morneau go deep to back Correia
Dozier clocks a three-run shot off Sale MINNEAPOLIS -- Kevin Correia notched his team-leading eighth quality start and Brian Dozier and Justin Morneau homered to help carry the Twins to a 7-4 victory over the White Sox on Wednesday night at Target Field. Correia, who has been the club's most consistent starter this year, was solid yet again, giving up two runs on five hits over 6 2/3 ...
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Pilgrim Baptist Church celebrates 150 years
Deacon Thomas Echoles shares a story as the Rev. Gerald Dodd listens in as a group of church members gather for Bible study at the Pilgrim Baptist Church on Central Avenue in St. Paul. The church is celebrating its 150th anniversary with a series of events this weekend. (Pioneer Press: John Autey) Some called them runaway slaves, but Robert Hickman knew the men, women and children who ...
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Dakotas are wooing Minnesota workers companies
The states are appealing directly to workers and businesses in Minnesota, asking them to head for the border. This spring, when Minnesota lawmakers hiked the cigarette tax, created a higher top-tier individual income tax and expanded the sales tax to a handful of industries, a fresh round of interstate wooing ...
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St. Paul City Council urged to restrict size of new apartment buildings on Grand Avenue
University of St. Thomas neighbors say they are concerned with parties and parking as they urged St. Paul council members to restrict the size of new apartment buildings along Grand Avenue. About a dozen residents spoke out at a public hearing Wednesday on a proposal to limit the height of future apartment buildings along West Grand Avenue from just east of Fairview Avenue to Cretin Avenue. ...