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OSHKOSH, WIS. Unmanned military truck goes out for a test spin on factory grounds The scene looked like something out of a Stephen King horror story. A lime-green military truck barrelled down a road with its lights flashing, its engine roaring — and its driver’s seat empty. But this unmanned truck was well-behaved. Known as TerraMax, it stopped at a four-way intersection, waited its turn as …

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Four accident victims from two serious crashes on Hwy. 610 in Brooklyn Park remained hospitalized on Saturday night, with one person still in critical condition and the three others in fair condition. The accidents occurred about a mile apart on Hwy. 610 in Brooklyn Park during Friday afternoon’s rush hour and closed a portion of the road for the evening. Police said that traffic had been heavy …

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Police in Duluth are investigating the city’s first fatal shooting of the year. More Crime News

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A Shoreview father died while rescuing his son on Turtle Lake Friday night. “Miles was one of the nicest people I ever met, very

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For many corn farmers, atrazine is life-giving, a guarantee that their crops will be as bountiful as weather permits. For some environmentalists, atrazine is life-deforming, a risk to wildlife and possibly even people. Nearly 50 years after farmers first began spraying atrazine on their fields, the widely used herbicide is doing more than killing weeds. It’s also stirring conflicts over how to …

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Wally’s Supermarkets, which has stores in Devils Lake and Grafton in North Dakota and in Roseau, Minn., is for sale. More Business News

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DULUTH Is the greatest of the Great Lakes becoming, as one headline writer recently suggested, “Lake Inferior?” For those who depend on the world’s biggest body of fresh water to float their sailboat, lap up to their dock or transport their cargo, Lake Superior’s lowest water level in 81 years is no joke. “I’ve been here since 1959, and it’s never been this low,” said Joel Johnson, manager at …

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MORE ONLINE ” More information about water levels and other Great Lakes issues is available at the Army Corps of Engineers website: www.startribune.com/a3022. ” And you can watch freighters come in and out of Duluth harbor by monitoring this webcam: www.startribune.com/a3024.

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After last weekend’s fatal wreck blamed on road rage, Roadguy heard it over and over: Why don’t slower drivers just move out of the left lane? One answer: Because they don’t really have to. Many states have freeway signs that say “slower traffic keep right,” and in much of the world, the inside lane is reserved for passing only. In 2000, the Legislature voted in favor of enacting such rules in …

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STATE OF MINNESOTA PROGRAM ” To get prices of drugs or order from Canada, call the Minnesota LinkAge Line at 1-800-333-2433 or go to www.minnesotarxconnect.com. MINNESOTA SENIOR FEDERATION PROGRAM ” Call Monday through Friday 10 a.m. to noon or 1 to 3 p.m. at 651-783-5045 or toll-free at 1-866-783-5045 , or go to www.mnseniors.org.

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Like millions of Latinos living and working in the United States, Martha Urgiles had a personal stake in the immigration bill that died last week in the U.S. Senate. “I have relatives who have [legal] papers and others who don’t,” said Urgiles, 19, of Minneapolis. “I was hoping that it would go through. It would have changed their lives.” The bill, pushed heavily by President Bush and immigration …

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People across the country are probably making a few extra phone calls, or sending extra text messages, or listening to music, or even surfing the web. That’s because they finally got their iPhones. Video: Jason DeRusha Reports More Consumer News

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Paramedics took two people to Regions Hospital this morning after a stove fire in a St. Paul apartment building.

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Officials at Minnesota State University Moorhead have put up 14,255 U.S. flags on Nemzek Field on campus. More Local News

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When Miles Xiong saw his 2-year-old son in a Shoreview lake Friday, he didn’t think twice before going in after him, his family said tonight.

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