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Report ranks Minn. sixth in college debt
Last year's graduates left school owing an average of $25,558. The state ranked fifth the previous year.
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Reporter's notebook; Charter school financing
K.G. Wilson, minister of hope
Trooper sideswiped by drunk driver
Thanksgiving Day walk to end hunger
How to cook a turkey: Fernbrook Elementary
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- Blaine parks in gear
- Cities sign up for guaranteed savings
- Anoka and Ramsey counties might get grants for bike trails near rivers
- Veterans clinic sites narrowed
- Food and toy drives up the ante for 2009
- Now riders, nonriders can add up value of Northstar
- Mpls.-to-Duluth rail price tag climbs to $1 billion
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East Metro
Medical problem sets off 7-vehicle Roseville crash that kills 1
A seven-vehicle crash Tuesday afternoon in Roseville left a woman dead and another driver in critical condition.
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- Holiday lights: Send us suggestions
- Washington County commissioner heats up budget talks
- Afton offers a weekend of holiday cheer
- Pilot in Lake Elmo Airport crash is identified
- Woodbury attorney cleared of charges
- Woodbury recycling center hits its stride
- A new generation of high school sports coverage
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South Metro
School lunch fresh from farm
The Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan School District's new "Farm to School" initiative aims to put more local apples, corn and beef on cafeteria lunch menus.
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- Deep thoughts drive Eastview's girls
- Gymnastics on mind even on wedding day
- Wrestling could be lifted past football to top sport
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West Metro
Waconia ballroom septic system to shut down
It will be converted to a holding tank while permanent solution is considered.
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Sex offender charged with assaulting elderly woman at Kandiyohi County church
A convicted sex offender is charged with assaulting an elderly woman during a church tour in Kandiyohi County.
Minnesota lawmakers target charter school rules
Minnesota lawmakers will begin probing the use of state lease aid money that charter schools have used to fuel a building spree paid for with high-cost junk bonds.
Cities sign up for guaranteed savings
Some metro cities are getting a guarantee from contractors that improving public buildings is win-win-win.
Whistleblower
Isabelle Jessich: Happy return to 'my sweet home’
Isabelle Jessich's first foe was alcoholism. Her second was the court system. The more she fought to regain her rights, the harder the system fought to keep her a ward of the state.
Pine County caregiver a suspect in starving death
Authorities allege the man hired to care for a disabled girl conspired with her mother to falsify his time sheets.
Errant 'DECEASED' on letter prompts Minn. soldier's mom to sue
A Duluth soldier's mom, who has protested the war, wrote to her son stationed in Iraq. The letter came back to her erroneously stamped "DECEASED."
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- Minnesota lawmakers target charter school rules
- Economic forecast due: Signs point to deep deficit
- GOP's Demmer joins race for U.S. House seat
- Legislators scour for spare dollars for bonding projects
- Ethanol's boom goes bust
- State economist: A thorn in governor’s philosophy
- Pawlenty says he'll be 'holding the line on taxes'
- State Rep. Demmer tries again in Minn. 1st
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