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Researchers from the Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota, and the University's Brain Tumor Program, have developed a new mouse model of malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors that allow them to discover new genes and gene pathways driving this type of cancer.

If handled correctly, selling beer and wine at college football stadiums and basketball arenas can be a profitable endeavor for universities.

Watching a crash test dummy being thrown around like a rag doll in a roll-over simulator gave 500 fifth-graders at Forestview Middle School in Baxter a good idea of what could happen if they didn't wear their seat belts.

We're going to tell you a little known story about a South Dakota native who challenged a president to end a war.

Propping up the Fourth Estate by DWIGHT HOBBES Bill Borea, anchor of Minneapolis Television Network's cablecast forum 'Spectator' , is, to say the least, a well-rounded fella.

A University of Minnesota dairy economist will speak at South Dakota University on Wednesday about current federal dairy legislation.

Kate O'Reilly's spring allergy survival kit includes the usual stuff - nasal sprays, allergy pills and a box of tissues.

Dallas - Home furnishings manufacturer Groovystuff announced the names of the four student winners of its "Groovystuff by Design: Connecting Education with Industry Challenge." Students Ian O'Hare , Ami Seuki , Malachi Payne and Bethany DeLine placed first from their respective schools in the popular vote, conducted at the spring High Point Market, ... (more)

Minnesota state Rep. David FitzSimmons "made himself a hero for the cause [of] religious freedom" with his " civil marriage" amendment to what is now the state's new law permitting same-sex marriages .

A miserable start to spring planting for Minnesota farmers has greatly improved with a stretch of better weather.

Margaret Barry from Catholic University Columbus School of Law to Vermont Law School June Carbone from the University of Missouri, Kansas City to the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis-St. Paul.

An appeals court has upheld the murder conviction of Timothy Bakdash of Roseville, who is serving 40 years for the booze-fueled hit-and-run killing of a Wisconsin man.

Washington state's Legislature recently decreed that all statutes be rewritten to incorporate gender-neutral language.

Income tax, cigarette tax increases are in, along with $585 million for Mayo/Rochester and all-day kindergarten.

Main Category: Medical Devices / Diagnostics Also Included In: Cardiovascular / Cardiology ; Public Health Article Date: 20 May 2013 - 0:00 PDT The type of sensors that pick up the rhythm of a beating heart in implanted cardiac defibrillators and pacemakers are vulnerable to tampering, according to a new study conducted in controlled laboratory ... (more)

Matt Sundeen, vice president of sales and commercial lines producer at Maguire Agency, has been named Agent of the Year for 2013 by the Minnesota Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers .

Ball State University is looking into complaints by evolutionists that a science and religion class using material on intelligent design material is promoting Christianity to its students.

In honor of the beloved reality show's 10th birthday, a conversation with Rhonda Loverude, who wrote her doctoral dissertation on hegemonic heterosexuality in ANTM Over the course of its run, the dramatic Tyra Banks-hosted modeling competition-in which contestants try to out-fierce one another on the runway and in photo shoots to win a contract at ... (more)

The decision to be an entrepreneur came when he chose to "Do" rather than to "Be." That bit of advice and nine other insights grabbed us from the speech he gave to University of Minnesota engineering graduates last week.

Police departments and federal agencies across the country are using a certain type of polygraph despite evidence of a technical problem, McClatchy Newspapers has found.