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General Mills agrees to remove fruit images from its strawberry-less strawberry Fruit Roll-Ups

Your suspicions were right: strawberry-flavored Fruit Roll-Ups don't actually contain any strawberries, and that "made with real fruit" slogan stamped on boxes can be a bit of a stretch.Starting in 2014, packaging for the popular snack food will have to be more up front about both of those claims. ... More >>

Michele Bachmann's favorite gun is the Bushmaster AR-15 used in Newtown [VIDEO]

During an appearance on Jan Mickelson's radio show late last year, Michele Bachmann said her favorite gun is the Bushmaster AR-15 rifle.SEE ALSO: Thomas Caffall, Texas A&M shooter, was a Michele Bachmann supporterThat's the same controversial high-capacity gun used by Adam Lanza to kill 20 child ... More >>

GOP platform's new anti-porn stance unexpectedly mirrors Bachmann's pledge

SEE ALSO:-- Michele Bachmann pledges to ban "all forms of pornography" if elected president-- Bachmann pledge: Black families were better off during slavery than they are under Obama-- Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch: "There is a way to have a more 'forcible rape'" [VIDEO]While running for pres ... More >>

Issac Aguigui, alleged leader of Army plot to assassinate Obama, was a page at 2008 RNC

SEE ALSO: Longfellow Park Obama threat: Is murdered cat a message for the president?Four years ago, Issac Aguigui was in St. Paul, serving as a page during the 2008 Republican National Convention. Now, he's facing murder charges and allegations he was the ringleader of an Army plot to assassinate Pr ... More >>

Wade Michael Page, Wisconsin Sikh temple shooter: Image circulating [PHOTO]

This morning, a photo of Wade Michael Page -- the 40-year-old U.S. Army veteran suspected of being the sole gunman responsible for the Milwaukee-area Sikh temple shooting that left seven dead yesterday, including Page himself -- began to circulate around the internet.The photo was released by the So ... More >>

US Bank sued by city of Los Angeles for 'turning Wall Street fraud into Main Street blight'

SEE ALSO: US Bank closes UC Davis branch, cites "intolerable" Occupy protestsMinneapolis-based US Bank is one of the biggest, baddest slumlords in Los Angeles, the city alleges in a civil lawsuit filed yesterday. The suit reportedly seeks "potentially millions of dollars in penalties and restitution ... More >>

Beezow Doo-Doo Zopittybop-bop-bop [MUGSHOT]

​A man named Beezow Doo-Doo Zopittybop-bop-bop was arrested last Thursday near the Wisconsin state Capitol in Madison.That's his real name. Weird Wisconsin, indeed.

Fitch downgrades Minnesota's credit

​Minnesota's excellent credit rating got knocked off its feet yesterday by Fitch Ratings, thanks to the government shut down. We've gone from a triple-A rating to double-A plus. The upshot is that the state will have to pay higher interest rates when it borrows money. But before everyone sta ... More >>

Michele Bachmann schedules Iowa presidential announcement

​Michele Bachmann will announce on Monday again that she's running for president -- just in case anyone missed the last time she said she was running for president, or the fawning national press reports that have followed. This time will be different, though. Reuters says she'll make the an ... More >>

Five reasons to welcome The Rapture

​As the world cowers in fear of the Great Retribution "about" to befall us, we have to wonder what we're so afraid of. Firstly: if everything is reduced to nothingness tomorrow, then our unexistence probably won't bother us too much. I mean, gnomes and unicorns don't seem too upset about their ... More >>

Everything you thought you knew about the killing of Osama bin Laden is wrong

A story too good to be true?​The story of the killing of Osama bin Laden at the hands of Navy SEALS would have been compelling stuff in its own right. But it turns out the story ain't quite what it used to be. Here are the big headlines you probably thought were true about bin Laden's killing -- ... More >>

Beauty queen stripped of title for "eating too many tacos"

The pageant has a strict "no fat chicks" policy.​A beauty queen in Texas lost her title, according to Reuters, for a variety of infractions, including eating too many tacos.The 17-year-old Miss San Antonio, Domonique Ramirez, was initially stripped of her crown in late January, with pageant direct ... More >>

Wisconsin police hunt down Democratic senators over union-busting bill [UPDATES]

Photo: Mark Riechers/FlickrDemocrats abandon ship in Madison.​Republican Gov. Scott Walker wants to strip public employee unions of their collective bargaining rights, and he's threatened to call out the Wisconsin National Guard on public employee union members if they go on strike. And now, ... More >>

Phil Jensen, S.D. lawmaker, offers bill justifying homicide against abortion providers

S.D. Rep. Phil Jensen says this is all a misunderstanding.​A bill that could make murdering an abortion provider a justifiable homicide was apparently this close to becoming law in neighboring South Dakota. But Phil Jensen, the Rapid City Republican and avid abortion rights opponent who authored ... More >>

Scientist trying to grow meat in a lab--to keep cows off spaceships?

We prefer grass-fed...​At the Medical University of South Carolina, Vladimir Mironov, an M.D. and Ph.D, is trying hard to grow meat. Yes, you read that right--he's bioengineering the stuff--or at this point, animal skeletal muscle tissue--in a small lab in Charleston at the school. According to an ... More >>

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Julie "Jitterbug" Pearce sounds changed by Haiti

Photo courtesy Julie PearceJulie Pearce comforts an earthquake victim in Hait​Remember Julie "Jitterbug" Pearce, the former reporter at KBJR-TV in Duluth who quit her job to put her nursing skills to work with relief efforts in Haiti after the massive earthquake there in January? She says sh ... More >>

Swine flu summit aims to "keep the world working" during pandemic

Leaders gather in Minneapolis with purses full of hand sanitizer

Justice Department/USDA going after agriculture monopolies

In what is being described as "unprecedented," the departments of justice and agriculture will be teaming up to go after anticompetitive agricultural monopolies.

Plainview milk products recalled over salmonella fears

A Plainview, Minn. dairy cooperative has voluntarily recalled some of its products in light of a salmonella scare.

Craigslist will drop controversial "Erotic Services" category

The popular online classified site bows to pressure from law enforcement.

Westlaw rises to legal publishing fame by selling free information

St. Paul company outprofits Gannett, McGraw Hill, New York Times

Duh: Poor people have less access to healthy food

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