Новости за 23.01.2017

Opponents say decision was made with insufficient evidence, but district disagrees.

By most accounts, traffic flowed reasonably well in the southwest metro on Monday morning, the first day of the dreaded Nine Mile Creek bridge closure that will impact more than 90,000 drivers daily.

Defender Brent Kallman, who grew up in Woodbury and attended high school there, joins four others who played with the Loons during their NASL days.

Ra’Shede Hageman and De’Vondre Campbell, two former Gophers defensive standouts and teammates at Minnesota in 2013, played important roles for the Falcons in their 44-21 victory over the Packers that earned Atlanta a trip to the Super Bowl. Hageman, in fact, had one of the most talked-about defensive plays of the game when he made a strong bull rush up the middle and then sacked Aaron Rodgers from his stomach by reaching out and tripping the Packers’ QB with his hand. The play came on 2nd-and-10... Читать дальше...

You thought the Packers had a pretty good season, right? Well, there was some pretty good blame-throwing after Green Bay was whipped in the NFC title game. Take a look.

The Twin Cities country-rock favorites served as the backing band for his new solo album, "Americana," due April 21.

The new solar array in Marshall will provide power to Xcel under a 25-year contract.

The victim was thrown to the ground and hit his head, witnesses said.

“The Girl Who Drank the Moon” wins children’s literature’s highest honor. Also honored was Minneapolis writer Caren Stelson for “Sachiko,” published by Minneapolis’ Carolrhoda Books.

Here’s the road ahead, based on my experience in the Reagan and Obama administrations.

As you probably already know and are also probably sick of hearing over and over and over again, the Vikings in 2016 became the sixth team since 1990 to miss the playoffs after starting a season with five straight wins. The fifth team to do it will be in the Super Bowl in a couple of weeks. The Falcons started 5-0 last season before losing eight of their final 11 games, including one to the Vikings, to finish at .500. Sound familiar? After their collapse in 2015, the Falcons didn’t make sweeping changes. Читать дальше...

If Trump embodies the people, who were those millions of bodies insisting that he doesn’t represent them?

The North Loop neighborhood, which already has staked its claim as a hot spot for chef-driven restaurants, is increasingly becoming a shopping destination for people from around the Twin Cities and visiting from out of town.

Eagan-based WSI Sports partners with Love Your Melon (LYM), a Minneapolis firm that makes warm hats for kids battling cancer.