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Dennis Anderson: In southwest Minn., where Gov. Walz will hunt, pheasants benefit from passion

In Minnesota's pheasant hunting heyday, WCCO radio would broadcast live from the state's hinterlands on opening day, reveling in an event — in effect a state holiday — that was as much about community spirit as it was about the splendor, and magic, of roosters flushing into cobalt skies on…

Tribune News Service · Oct 12, 2022

Review: 'Sinister Graves': The third in the Cash Blackbear series focuses on missing Native women and children

"Trauma doesn't make you stronger," says Cash Blackbear in Marcie R. Rendon's remarkable "Sinister Graves," set in Minnesota in the 1970s. "You do that yourself." And Cash should know. She spent her childhood shunted from one white foster home to another, one beating to another, eventually coming out of the…

Tribune News Service · Oct 12, 2022

Maverick the 2,560lb pumpkin triumphs in ‘Super Bowl’ of gourd fests

Rhinoceros-size Minnesota native wins big in California and will compete once more before being retired to stud

The Guardian - US · Oct 11, 2022

NFL star Lewis Cine needed two surgeries after horror injury and will be lucky to play again

The Minnesota Vikings rookie suffered a serious injury at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in last weekend's game against the New Orleans Saints

Daily Mirror · Oct 10, 2022

Minnesota congressional candidate dies Oct. 5; 2nd District election will still take place on Nov. 8

Paula Overby—the Legal Marijuana Now Party candidate in Minnesota’s 2nd Congressional District—died on Oct. 5. Axios Twin Cities reported that Overby died “following complications related to a failing heart valve.” That day, Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon said that the congressional election will proceed as scheduled on Nov. 8…

Ballotpedia · Oct 10, 2022

Best photos from the Vikings 29-22 win over the Bears

The best pictures from the Vikings' Sunday's win against the Chicago Bears

USA Today Sports Media Group · Oct 9, 2022

Week 5 Bears vs Vikings: 3 takeaways at halftime

The Minnesota Vikings are making things look easy against the Chicago Bears

USA Today Sports Media Group · Oct 9, 2022

Minnesota Gov. Walz receives $6.3 million, with $8000 donations topping list

In Minnesota, Gov. Tim Walz is the number one fundraiser in state politics in the 2022 election cycle so far. According to the most recent campaign finance reports made to the Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board, the governor received $6,310,606 in total contributions and spent $2,642,137 between Jan.…

Ballotpedia · Oct 9, 2022

Keeping up on Lizzo: 8 highlights from the singer's eventful year since lockdown

During the seven years she lived in Minnesota, Lizzo occasionally would do something wild to get the local gossip mill spinning with that question. In the year and a half since emerging out of COVID-19 lockdown, the singer and rapper has frequently drummed up international headlines essentially asking the same…

Tribune News Service · Oct 7, 2022

False calls about active school shooters are rising. Behind them is a strange pattern

In September, schools across the country started getting hoax calls that active shooters were on their campuses. But nearly one month in, there are more questions than ever.

WEKU · Oct 7, 2022