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• Twins' Joe Mauer wins MVP award
  Minnesota Twins catcher Joe Mauer is Major League Baseball's Most Valuable Player in the American League for 2009.November 23, 2009
• Governor's mansion decked out for holiday open houses
  The Minnesota Governor's Residence is all decked out for the holidays. And people can get a look at the decorations at three open houses in December.November 23, 2009
• Favre nearly perfect in Vikings' 35-9 romp over Seahawks
  Quarterback Brett Favre completed a career-high 88 percent of his passes for 213 yards and four touchdown passes, and the Vikings delivered their most complete performance of the season in a 35-9 victory over the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday.November 22, 2009
• Pastoral path runs through nursing homes, jails
  Callings from a higher power don't come in the form of a well-written letter or a carefully worded voice mail, so Jerry David understands why the ministerial path he's on has taken some detours.November 22, 2009
• Big acts make case for revisiting ticket scalping rules
  In the wake of Taylor Swift's recent Minnesota show, which left many fans shut out, state officials are investigating whether the rules around how tickets are sold should be tightened.November 20, 2009
• Ramsey County marks adoption day with 35 adoptions
  Ramsey County is observing National Adoption Day by finalizing the adoptions of 35 children to 24 families in one afternoon ceremony.November 20, 2009
• The tale behind 'The Messenger'
  A new film opening in the Twin Cities this week called "The Messenger" tells the story of two soldiers on casualty notification duty -- telling next of kin about the death of a soldier.November 20, 2009
• Childress signs extension with Vikings
  The man who brought Brett Favre to the Minnesota Vikings will be sticking around for a while.November 20, 2009
• Commission approves plan to renew Vikings' dome lease
  The commission that operates the Metrodome has approved a plan aimed at keeping the Minnesota Vikings in the stadium past the current lease expiration in 2011, even as the team says the move threatens the Vikings' future in Minnesota.November 19, 2009
• Non-profits analyze Give to the Max Day
  More than 3,300 Minnesota non-profits raised in excess of $14 million in charitable contributions earlier this week in the first known attempt to raise money for non-profits statewide in one day, on one Web site.November 19, 2009
• New Lutheran body to form after gay pastor vote
  The split over gay clergy within the country's largest Lutheran denomination has prompted a conservative faction to begin forming a new Lutheran church body separate from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.November 18, 2009
• Group staging protest of GAMC elimination
  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.November 18, 2009
• Community revives ailing mobile home park
  A St. Cloud-area mobile home park is showing that it is possible to turn around a park for the better, but it requires the cooperation of concerned citizens and most importantly, the park owner.November 18, 2009
• The Kerri Miller Book Club: 'Moral Man and Immoral Society'
  Reinhold Niebuhr was one of the most influential, and controversial, theologians and political theorists of the 20th Century. President Obama has called him his favorite philosopher. Two scholars discuss the essence of Niebuhr's philosophy and the book, "Moral Man and Immoral Society."Midmorning, November 18, 2009
• Visiting the land of invented languages
  Linguist Arika Okrent speaks many languages, including several such as Klingon and Esperanto, which someone sat down and invented from scratch. In her new book "In the Land of Invented Languages," Okrent explores nine centuries of linguistic invention, and the belief that a better language could lead to a better world.November 17, 2009

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