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They can be difficult enough to understand if one is not well versed in legal or insurance issues, but sometimes they even stump lawyers.

The American Legion hall in Minneota was crowded on Saturday night, both with area residents and a staggering variety of sweet treats laid out on buffet tables for the annual Chocolate Affair.

The National Weather Service predicts snow to fall inA Northfield after noon. But before you get your much-neglected snow blower out of the garage, less than an inchA of snow is expected to fall.

It's nearlyA the fourteenth of February and Eternal Love approacheth on gossamerA wings gilded by advertising dollars.

The worldwide diabetes epidemic is taking a huge toll in Minnesota. One-third of all adults in the state either have diabetes or are pre-diabetic, with blood glucose levels that are higher than normal.

The federal money was given to colleges across Minnesota. Riverland Community College is one of 11 schools to receive money from the Minnesota Department of Health to help pregnant and parent students in school.

Third-graders Curtis Hatcher, left, and Kashawn Pierce read Tuesday at the FAIR school, operated by the West Metro Education Program, in Minneapolis.

Licensed resource teacher Olivia Stewart read a story, "Ron's Big Mission," to second grade students at Earle Brown Elementary School in Brooklyn Center last September.

Terms [like jazz or classical] have a certain use for identifying general areas of style, and then we have to start dealing with the individual approaches.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speaking against the war in Vietnam at the St. Paul Campus of the University of Minnesota.

Liana Palaikis, EarthClean's director of product development, demonstrates how the company mixes its powdery TetraKO product with water to form a gel that snuffs out fires.

Property taxes on Minnesota businesses would be slashed by about 30 percent over the next six to 12 years under legislation the Republican-controlled Legislature is almost certain to pass this year.

MANKATO, Minn - After a successful first week in the new interim location, the Children's Museum of Southern Minnesota will now have extended hours of operation.

DNR Staff Report Charges were filed earlier by the Jackson County attorney's office against a Jackson County man in southwestern Minnesota for allegedly shooting a cougar on Nov.

Republicans in St. Paul are pushing for Minnesota to become the newest right-to-work state.

The executive committee of the Legislative-Citizen Commission on Minnesota Resources pushed back today, asserting its authority in a dispute involving the attempted firing of its executive director.

University of Minnesota Board of Regents Chairwoman Linda Cohen in a statement today detailed her approach regarding former Republican House Speaker Steve Sviggum, now a university regent, who recently accepted a position with the Minnesota Senate Republican Caucus as its communication director and executive assistant.

A panel of judges has approved the discharge of a 64-year-old pedophile from Minnesota's Sex Offender program.

Referendums in Minnesota and North Carolina both look likely to ban gay marriage.

A decade after the No Child Left Behind law rewrote the nation's education policies, President Obama freed 10 states from some of its crucial provisions Thursday, including a deadline for bringing all students to proficiency in reading and math by 2014.