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				<title>Gary Schiff bows out of mayoral race</title>
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			 Gary Schiff officially pulled out of the Minneapolis mayoral race Wednesday afternoon.

Schiff's announcement comes after a difficult weekend on the campaign trail. On the floor of the endorseme...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:50:24 -0600</pubDate>
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				<title>Wis. Sen. Mary Lazich on abortions: In the &apos;60s, &quot;you needed to get one to become a woman&quot; [VIDEO]</title>
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			 Last week, Wisconsin lawmakers approved legislation forcing women seeking abortions to have an ultrasound before going through with a procedure to terminate their pregnancy. Gov. Scott Walker is...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:09:57 -0600</pubDate>
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				<featured_headline>Wisconsin&apos;s abortion debate gets heated [VIDEOS]</featured_headline>
			
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				<title>Helicopter crashes in Maplewood [PHOTOS]</title>
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			  This morning, a helicopter reportedly doing mosquito-control spraying in the area of the Maplewood Nature Center crashed into a detached garage.The condition of the pilot is unknown, but a vehi...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:10:48 -0600</pubDate>
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				<title>Funny or Die spoofs Michele Bachmann&apos;s retirement announcement [VIDEO]</title>
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			 With original footage like this, some might argue there's no need for a spoof of Michele Bachmann's retirement announcement. Nonetheless, Funny or Die came out with one.SEE ALSO: Stephen Colbert...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:12:16 -0600</pubDate>
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				<featured_headline>Funny or Die spoofs Bachmann [VIDEO]</featured_headline>
			
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				<title>Vince Flynn dies at 47</title>
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			Best-selling Minnesota author Vince Flynn died earlier this morning at United Hospital in St. Paul after a long battle with prostate cancer, WCCO reports. He was 47.During his 16-year career, Fly...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:35:20 -0600</pubDate>
				<author>Aaron Rupar</author>
			
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				<title>Twin Cities among best metros for the young, broke, and single, study says</title>
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			  Young, single, broke, and live in the Twin Cities? According to a new study put together by the Money Under 30 blog, you're probably spending less nights falling asleep by yourself while watchi...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:30:00 -0600</pubDate>
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				<featured_headline>MSP among top metros for broke and single</featured_headline>
			
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				<title>Bradlee Dean&apos;s street team members smacked by irate, bag-toting woman [VIDEO]</title>
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			 Bradlee Dean and his You Can Run But You Cannot Hide "ministry" landed in hot water last summer for conducting shady fundraising at an Iowa Hy-Vee store.SEE ALSO: Bradlee Dean mocks Rachel Maddo...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:25:00 -0600</pubDate>
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				<featured_headline>Dean&apos;s minions smacked by bag-toting woman [VIDEO]</featured_headline>
			
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				<title>Michele Bachmann calls Edward Snowden a &quot;traitor&quot; [VIDEO]</title>
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			 Amy Klobuchar thinks NSA leaker Edward Snowden should probably be prosecuted. But Michele Bachmann did her one better today on the House floor by coming right out and calling Snowden a "traitor....]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:44:36 -0600</pubDate>
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				<featured_headline>Bachmann calls Edward Snowden a &quot;traitor&quot; [VIDEO]</featured_headline>
			
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				<title>Long-time Minneapolis City Council Member Sandy Colvin Roy ends bid for re-election</title>
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After 16 years representing Ward 12 on the Minneapolis City Council, Sandy Colvin Roy is ending her bid for another term. Her announcement comes after a late-April DFL ward convention that en...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:58:06 -0600</pubDate>
				<author>Olivia LaVecchia</author>
			
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				<featured_headline>Mpls City Council incumbent ends bid</featured_headline>
			
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				<title>Gun rights group plans to pack heat at Open Streets</title>
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			 The Twin Cities Gun Owners &amp; Carry Forum is planning a string of "Open Streets -- Open Carry" events this summer.SEE ALSO: City Pages' Bob Davis coverage gets love on Colbert Report [VIDEO]
...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:52:23 -0600</pubDate>
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				<title>Amy Klobuchar defends NSA monitoring, says it prevented dozens of &quot;potential terrorist attacks&quot; [VIDEO]</title>
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			 Al Franken and Amy Klobuchar are both members of the Senate Judiciary Committee and therefore are as plugged in as anybody when it comes to matters pertaining to the NSA, FISA, and Patriot Act.R...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:00:44 -0600</pubDate>
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				<featured_headline>Klobuchar: NSA monitoring prevented terrorism</featured_headline>
			
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				<title>Man was sleeping in dumpster when he was loaded into Minneapolis garbage truck</title>
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			 As if using a dumpster for your bedroom isn't grim enough, a homeless man was lucky to escape serious injury this morning when he was loaded into a garbage truck along with the trash he was slee...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:30:28 -0600</pubDate>
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				<title>Minnesota&apos;s economy one of the fastest growing in the nation</title>
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			  The economic news out of the Land of 10,000 Lakes so this year has been remarkably good. For instance, we gained more jobs in a recent six-month stretch than any half-year since Reagan's heydey...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 08:40:16 -0600</pubDate>
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				<featured_headline>MN&apos;s economy one of the fastest growing</featured_headline>
			
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				<title>PedalPub driver responds to the haters [INTERVIEW]</title>
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			 Melissa Summers works full-time for Nice Ride, but she's a five-year veteran PedalPub driver. In fact, she put her son through college with the money she made captaining the leg-powered, booze-f...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 07:55:33 -0600</pubDate>
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				<title>&quot;Superhuman&quot; gray-haired woman steals decorative planter from Lift Bridge Brewing [VIDEO]</title>
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			 In a feat of strength Lift Bridge Brewing CEO Dan Schwarz described as "unbelievable," a gray-haired lady was caught on tape stealing a $125 decorative planter from the brewery's Stillwater head...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 14:28:08 -0600</pubDate>
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				<featured_headline>&quot;Superhuman&quot; woman steals planter [VIDEO]</featured_headline>
			
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				<title>Two robbery-at-gunpoint incidents in Grand Avenue Kowalski&apos;s parking lot this month</title>
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			 The Kowalski's Market on Grand Avenue has been the site of two scary robberies this month.SEE ALSO: Clark Griffith after dropping trou on Grand Avenue: "Last night was awesome"Around 10:30 p.m. ...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:30:54 -0600</pubDate>
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				<featured_headline>Two people robbed at gunpoint at Kowalski&apos;s</featured_headline>
			
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				<title>Minneapolis officials taking heat for $200 million Central-Nicollet streetcar plan</title>
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			 Last month, the legislature gave Minneapolis officials the authority to create a "value capture district" that would divert property taxes from under-development parcels to help pay for a $200 m...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:40:14 -0600</pubDate>
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				<featured_headline>Mpls officials taking heat for streetcar plan</featured_headline>
			
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				<title>Gary Schiff loses campaign manager, fire department endorsement</title>
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			 The DFL endorsement convention Saturday didn't go very well for anyone -- it did, after all, end in an endorsement-less pizza party -- but Gary Schiff suffered a particularly difficult day, losi...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:31:13 -0600</pubDate>
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				<title>Drunk daycare provider was &quot;drinking because she was having a bad day,&quot; charges say</title>
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			  Sandstone, Minnesota, daycare operator Carrie Richardson has been charged with felony counts of child neglect and child endangerment after a 22-month-old in her care wandered onto a busy highwa...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 10:47:20 -0600</pubDate>
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				<title>Kurt Zellers shares toast with Leinenkugel&apos;s president to make amends for &quot;bathwater&quot; diss</title>
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			 Over the weekend, Rep. Kurt Zellers, R-Maple Grove, traveled to Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, to share a toast with Leinenkugel's president Jake Leinenkugel.SEE ALSO: Zellers confuses everyone with...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 09:41:35 -0600</pubDate>
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				<featured_headline>Zellers apologizes for &quot;bathwater&quot; diss</featured_headline>
			
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