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Police have arrested 19-year-old Christopher Tarrell Clark on suspicion that he killed a man in north Minneapolis last month. When Minneapolis cops arrived in the 2700 block of Humboldt Avenue North... More >>
Michele Bachmann raised eyebrows last week with her comment blaming President Barack Obama for the Casey Anthony verdict. "Well, I've been visiting all the primary states, and I've been talking to p... More >>
Big Joe Gustafson, the former Hell's Angel who ran a north Minneapolis crime ring for years, has just been thrown in jail. Gustafson turned himself in to Hennepin County Jail at 11:05 p.m. last night... More >>
Buffalo Wild Wings has started the summer off with some spicy-hot profits: shares of the company are at an all-time high. The stock hit a share price of $68.38 two days ago, more than 50 percent up f... More >>
Minnesota State Troopers were out 600-strong--every single one of them--on the highways on Maroon Day (Thursday, June 30)--traditionally the deadliest traffic day of the year. They pulled over 2,502 p... More >>
Sean Matti, the Purdue college student and former Roseville Area High School football star missing in Indiana, has been found dead this morning. He was 22. Authorities pulled Matti's body from Lake F... More >>
In an open churchyard in south Minneapolis, a group of grown men and women are pretending to be airplanes. They buzz past one... More >>
Joseph "Big Joe" Gustafson, a former Hell's Angel-turned bail bondsman who terrorized north Minneapolis for years, has been charged with seven felonies -- and he's on the run. Authorities aren't sayi... More >>
Matt Taibbi's piece on Michele Bachmann in Rolling Stone this week borrows liberally from a 2006 cover story by former City Pages reporter G.R. Anderson Jr. So much so that Abe Sauer of the Awl calle... More >>
Buffalo Wild Wings has stepped things up a notch in its attempt to get this year's football season back on track: The Minnesota-grown company is offering six free wings to anyone who likes its petitio... More >>
Best Buy has already taken over the technical support world with its Minnesota-grown Geek Squad. Now, the company is claiming that it owns the word "geek." The electronics chain recently sent a cease... More >>
With just 10 days to go until a possible state government shutdown, top GOP leaders are asking Gov. Mark Dayton to call a special session to deal with the state's $5 billion budget deficit. House Sp... More >>
A federal jury in Minneapolis has decided that the risks of a blockbuster drug made by Johnson & Johnson were well-established, directly contradicting a verdict another jury reached last fall. C... More >>
GOP members of a Senate panel have passed a resolution authorizing the entire body to intervene in the lawsuit filed by Gov. Mark Dayton to keep essential services running in the case of a government ... More >>
First Newt Gingrich, now T-Paw: the glitter rainbow is everywhere. Our former governor and current GOP presidential contender was signing books in San Francisco today at a conference on health care. ... More >>
Nevada millionaire Robert M. Lee, 83, is apparently the kind of guy who thinks his bags of money give him the right to be a major dirty old man. While flying on his private jet to Rochester for a doc... More >>
Next weekend, more than 100,000 people will watch a parade on Hennepin Avenue and raise high a universal symbol of gay liberation: the rainbow... More >>
It's been three weeks since the tornado devastated north Minneapolis--and many victims are still waiting for their landlords to make things right.... More >>
The family of Benjamin Bryan Newton, the little boy killed last week as the result of a tragic accident at a Shoreview chiropractor's office, has set up a memorial fund. Donations will help pay for ... More >>
This is just awful. An 18-month-old boy died yesterday as a result of a tragic accident in a chiropractor's office while his mother lay strapped to a table, unable to save her son. The boy crawled u... More >>
Police have identified the man found charred beyond recognition in a St. Paul alley Wednesday morning as 30-year-old Quincy Antwain Blue. Blue was involved in Minneapolis music as a rapper, original... More >>
A little boy stumbled across a horrifically charred body in a St. Paul alley this morning. We don't have much information about the bizarre scene yet, but St. Paul police said that a three-year-old ... More >>
Popular Minneapolis poster designer Adam Turman's "Save Second Base" T-shirts are supposed to be all about fighting breast cancer. But this week, they sparked a Twitter war over whether they demean th... More >>
Minneapolis put out a call for volunteers, and people answered fast. Two thousand people have signed up for Saturday's big cleanup, and now the city doesn't need anyone else. And don't bother showing... More >>
Last week in our cover story, Achilles Heel, we wrote about a man whose Achilles tendon ruptured after he took the antibiotic Levaquin.Now, the drug makers are on trial in Minneapolis in federal court... More >>
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