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• Schmidt Brewery to sell pristine spring water
  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. Nov 21, 2009
• Former IronWorld USA attraction in Chisholm shuttering doors
  The Iron Range attraction once known as IronWorld is closing its doors Friday. Nov 19, 2009
• Asian carp may have invaded Great Lakes
  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. Nov 20, 2009
• New Shubert Center to finally break ground
  After 10 years of non-stop lobbying and fundraising, the Minneapolis group Artspace will finally break ground Thursday on the new Minnesota Shubert Center in downtown Minneapolis. Nov 18, 2009
• North Dakota oil patch is booming
  Rising oil prices are bringing new exploration, and hundreds of millions of dollars to North Dakota oil fields. Aug 28, 2006
• 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. Nov 19, 2009
• Nursing homes on the brink of budget disaster
  In the next installment of our series, The State Budget in Your Backyard, we look at how potential state budget cuts could affect nursing home residents in White Bear Lake. Jan 20, 2009
• Archbishop Nienstedt joins anti-abortion demonstration
  Hundreds of demonstrators were outside the Planned Parenthood clinic in St. Paul Friday morning for an annual Good Friday demonstration protesting legalized abortion. Apr 10, 2009
• NEH chairman speaks live at the National Press Club
  Jim Leach, chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities and a former Republican congressman who represented Iowa for 30 years, speaks live at the National Press Club. Midday, Nov 20, 2009
• Lawsuit seeks to block home foreclosures in Minn.
  The lawsuit claims a new federal program that's meant to help struggling homeowners refinance their mortgages fails to give them proper notice of why they've been rejected, or the right to appeal. Jul 28, 2009
• High court upholds mortgage lenders' registry
  The Minnesota Supreme Court has ruled 6-1 that the Mortgage Electronic Registration System, or MERS, did not violate Minnesota law by failing to disclose which lenders actually owned a homeowner's mortgage. Aug 13, 2009
• 'Into Temptation' puts a modern slant on a priestly story
  The city of Minneapolis is one of the stars of "Into Temptation," a new movie that gets its world premiere at the Edina Theater on Thursday. Aug 25, 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. Nov 20, 2009
• Most federal weatherization funding in Minn. remains unspent
  Six months after Congress allocated billions of federal stimulus dollars to weatherize low-income homes and create jobs, much of the money remains unspent in Minnesota and the rest of the U.S. Sep 2, 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. Nov 20, 2009