Madeleine Baran
Reporter
Minnesota Public Radio
Madeleine Baran Feature Archive
Homeless shelters for adults in St. Paul are running out of room, while providers and city officials work to open an overflow shelter as soon as possible before the temperature drops.
(11/21/2009)
Long before glaciers rolled through Minnesota, a massive pool of water circulated throughout the Twin Cities, and soon, residents will be able to line up at a well in St. Paul, and fill up their jugs with the water that experts say is about 30,000 years old.
(11/21/2009)
Federal officials say the despised
Asian carp may have breached an electronic barrier designed to
prevent it from invading the Great Lakes and jeopardizing their $7
billion sport fishery.
(11/20/2009)
A former St. Paul School District employee has been charged with stealing more than $21,260 from the school system.
(11/19/2009)
A man tried to run over a student in the parking lot of a Duluth high school Thursday morning, and nearly hit a school official while fleeing the scene, police said.
(11/18/2009)
St. Paul police have arrested two young men suspected of taking part in a series of random attacks shown in a video posted on the Internet.
(11/18/2009)
A group of low-income people and advocates will stage a "never-ending emergency room waiting line" outside of the Hennepin County Medical Center on Wednesday, to protest the elimination of General Assistance Medical Care.
(11/18/2009)
Becker County Sheriff's divers recovered the body of a 62-year-old duck hunter from Rat Lake on Tuesday afternoon.
(11/17/2009)
Community members have prevented the planned demolition of a former speakeasy in St. Paul, a place where "pretty girl entertainers" mingled with mobsters during the heyday of the Roaring '20s.
(11/17/2009)
A 45-year-old man who had been living at the Hastings Veterans home was sentenced Monday for the fatal beating of a fellow resident.
(11/16/2009)
Duluth elections officials will conduct a ballot recount next Thursday, in response to a request by a city council candidate who lost by 153 votes.
(11/12/2009)
A court watchdog group has demanded the resignation of Hennepin County Judge Stephen Aldrich, after the judge allegedly made a joke about murder during a hearing on a domestic violence restraining order.
(11/12/2009)
A drunk driver led West Hennepin police on a dangerous chase with her two children in the back seat and an open bottle of rum in a diaper bag on Thursday, according to police.
(11/11/2009)
Law enforcement officials are investigating an apparent homicide, after finding a dead man inside a vehicle in Washington County on Tuesday.
(11/11/2009)
An Anoka man died Tuesday after he was struck by a truck while riding his motorcycle.
(11/10/2009)