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Nine days after they combined for 52 points and 27 rebounds in a game at Utah, Karl-Anthony Towns and Gorgui Dieng together had 50 points and 30 rebounds against the Bulls.

The University of Minnesota's corpse flower bloomed overnight and a few thousand visitors lined up for the privilege of smelling its pungent smell that some compared to rotting fish.

It’s a real Washington whodunit — who tested the boundaries on State Department policy? It matters because the threat of hacking is real.

If you can’t make the top three in Iowa and New Hampshire, you won’t win, and you’re wasting others’ investment of money, time and emotion.

I chatted with Gophers women’s basketball coach Marlene Stollings on Friday for a Q&A that ran in Sunday’s paper. The first question I asked her was about the program’s opportunity to seize some momentum in the local sports market by continuing to play well while other teams were faltering. Stollings took that question and ran with it as an opportunity to remind everyone, once again, that if they haven’t seen senior Rachel Banham play … well, they really should. Said Stollings: “I think one of... Читать дальше...

If he’s honest, he’ll look around as he approaches the end of his term and see that the tide of war is not, in fact, receding.

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The bus crashed into parked cars and a post office in St. Paul.

Portion of Minnehaha Avenue in St. Paul was closed after the accident.

“We know that if students are reading at grade level by grade three, they are more likely to have success in later grades,” said district spokeswoman Barb Olson.

Of the many decisions the NFC North champions must make this offseason, one of the more interesting ones centers on left tackle Matt Kalil. Last offseason, the Vikings exercised their fifth-year option on Kalil, the fourth overall pick in the 2012 draft. That gave them contractual control of Kalil for 2016, which will be the final year of his rookie deal. Because Kalil was a top-10 pick at a premium position, his option figure is an $11.1 million base salary, which would make him one of the NFL’s highest-paid left tackles in 2016. Читать дальше...

The comedian said of the halftime ad, "This really is a validation of all the work I've done all these years."

Kapp is working on his memoir and will set aside a chapter dedicated to concussions.

The rare event was rather underwhelming; now staff members are coaxing the plant into a more impressive bloom.

Highlights of the day in photos from around the world.