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A body was found in the trunk of the gold Lexus in the middle of this picture.

Today, a body was found inside the trunk of a gold Lexus towed to Wreckers Services at Glenwood and Lyndale Avenues in Minneapolis.

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Details at this point remain scant, though a crime lab was on the scene early this afternoon.

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Fittingly, Minneapolis City Hall will be among the first places in the state to host gay marriages.

Wanna be one of the first gay couples to tie the knot and have your wedding officiated by none other than a smiling Mayor R.T. Rybak to boot? That can be arranged. Just be at Minneapolis City Hall at midnight on August 1 (or whatever night ends up being the first when gay weddings can occur -- the specific date remains in question, but it'll be sometime in early August).

SEE ALSO: Mark Dayton signs gay marriage bill into law

City Hall will be opening as soon as possible the day gay marriages become legal in Minnesota, and according to a city release, there's no better place for a wedding.

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If the city's plan comes to fruition, the property that is currently home to the Strib will look like this in three years.

Zygi Wilf isn't the only one whose wallet got fatter as a result of the Vikings stadium deal. Another big winner was the Star Tribune, as the paper stands to make a pretty penny selling the right-next-to-the-new-stadium property it owns for redevelopment.

SEE ALSO: New Vikings stadium design revealed [IMAGES]

This afternoon, Minneapolis officials unveiled a $400 million plan that would convert the Strib's property, which has a market value of more than $15 million, into downtown's largest park, two office towers, and 300 residential units and retail stores.

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Gilmore's mugshot following his June 16, 2011 arrest.

Conservative activist, blogger, and lawyer John Gilmore has sued the city of Minneapolis for $10 million over a "baseless" June 2011 arrest that made him seem "bigoted, intolerant and prejudiced toward Muslims... Muslim women in particular," the Downtown Journal, citing court filings, reports.

THE BACKSTORY: John Hugh Gilmore, Minnesota Conservatives blogger, arrested for harassing Muslim women [VIDEO]

On that June evening, Gilmore was in downtown Minneapolis for a conservative conference headlined by Andrew Breitbart when he allegedly started harassing two women wearing Muslim headscarves. Witnesses and cops said Gilmore took photos of the women, demanded to know why they were in the U.S., and said things like, "This is America, welcome to America, this is the western world."

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Sarah: "We need to have conversations about race, but it's so touchy that we have to really calculate how we say everything."

As her submission to the "Judgmental Maps" blog became an internet sensation yesterday, the creator of the Minneapolis one asked us to remove her name from our post.

THE BACKSTORY: Judgmental Mpls neighborhood map might offend you, will probably make you laugh [IMAGE]

Sarah -- she asked us not to use her last name for this piece -- was concerned her controversial creation was "being misinterpreted by about 75 percent of folks." Later in the day, we connected with her on the phone and got her to expand on the point she was trying to make with her map.

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Minneapolis, judged.

Live in Loring Park? According to the "Judgmental Maps" blog, you're really in the land of "gay renters."

:::: UPDATE :::: Judgmental Mpls map creator speaks out: "The whole thing is satirical"

The latest entry on the blog takes a snarky, possibly offensive look at the City of Lakes, complete with attempting-to-keep-it-real neighborhood names like "Target Corp zombies roaming the skyway" (downtown), "people who can't afford Southwest Minneapolis" (Lake Nokomis area), and "drunk college students" (Dinkytown).

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Yup, that about sums it up.

Live in Minneapolis and find yourself fretting about where you'll stash your car during the latest (and hopefully last) assault by The Winter That Won't End? Don't worry about it.

SEE ALSO: Winter of 2012 fourth warmest in Twin Cities history [GRAPHIC]

The official Minneapolis Snow Emergency Twitter account reported earlier this morning that "We can't declare a Snow Emergency after 4/1 (city ordinance) but crews will be out today, tonight and tomorrow treating/ clearing streets." St. Paul, however, isn't encumbered by a similar ordinance.

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Not a picture of the actual mortar found in Minneapolis

A World War II-vintage Japanese mortar (right) was found in a Lyn-Lake wall, of all places.

Barack Obama is worried about guns on Minneapolis streets, but maybe he should be concerned about bombs, too.

SEE ALSO: Mitt Romney's Minnesota F-bomb

When they took down a wall as part of a renovation project, homeowners near West Lake Street and Aldrich Avenue South thankfully didn't get a blast from the past, though they were in for a huge surprise.

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Photos by Aaron Rupar

Vandals tagged all sides of the Temple Israel building near Franklin & Hennepin.

-- Update at bottom of post --

Temple Israel was defaced overnight by vandals who defaced the synagogue in numerous spots with graffiti.

SEE ALSO: Walker's Spoonbridge sculpture defaced with Kony graffiti [PHOTO]

It's unclear to us if there's any message hidden in the tags, but if you think you see something, let us know in the comments. The Jewish holiday of Passover began yesterday.

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Image by Tatiana Craine

The MPD reported that one out of every 1,000 women in the city was raped in 2011, the highest rate in the nation.

If you judged by the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports, you'd think Minneapolis has been the national leader in "forcible rapes" (it's a real statistical category, not just the brainchild of Paul Ryan) since 2007.

SEE ALSO: Minneapolis guns incidents, violent crime crept up in 2012

But you shouldn't judge by those numbers. Because according to a Star Tribune report, the city has been over-reporting rapes for years.

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