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ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Timberwolves made an unexpected surge up the defensive ladder this season. Despite a lack of astute defenders, Minnesota closed the NBA regular season ranking 13th in defensive rating, surrendering 111 points per 100 possessions.

Daunte Wright was fatally shot last year by a suburban Minneapolis police officer. Katie Wright says she was injured while she was briefly detained this week by one of the same department's officers.

Dion Letcher's family has run a fertilizer business in Garden City, Minnesota, on the flat plains south of Mankato since the Eisenhower administration. Letcher is still not sure how to explain the accelerated costs of the chemical nutrients farmers use to feed corn and soybeans.

ISABELLA, Minn. — It's not hard to see how someone could get lost in the million-acre Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, or in the 2 million-acre Superior National Forest that surrounds it.

AUSTIN, Minn. ― People eat to fuel their body. This gives patients strength and stamina to power through the day.

ROCHESTER, Minn. — A review article by Mayo Clinic researchers emphasizes that early onset colorectal cancer, defined as being diagnosed when younger than 50, continues to steadily increase in the U.S. and other higher income countries. This increase, along with a decline in later-onset cases due primarily to screening have…

WORTHINGTON, Minn. — Dorothy Sietsema had a few choice words for Garrison Keillor.

ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Wild won home-ice advantage for the first round of the playoffs but lost a key player.

ST. LOUIS — No matter what happened Friday in St. Paul, Minn., between the Minnesota Wild and the Colorado Avalanche, coach Craig Berube said he wanted to see a strong closing effort from his hockey team. Strong forechecking, good defense, disciplined play.

ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Wild won't be getting upset by any more non-playoff teams.

Dave Gebhardt says the flat fields of Ukraine — Europe's breadbasket — look like those rolling, green corn and soybean acreages surrounding the farm he grew up on near Rochester, Minnesota.