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Minnesota's teen birth rate dropped 31 percent between 2007 and 2011.

Our STD rate might be on the rise, but at least Minnesota's teens are having safer sex: Between 2007 and 2011, the number of teens giving birth in the state dropped by more than 30 percent.

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Fulton told the PiPress the bandage on his face is from a recent skin cancer surgery.

On Monday afternoon, Rob Fulton, the former director of the St. Paul-Ramsey County Public Health Department, ensnared himself in the same trap that caught former Hill-Murray football coach (and Joe Mauer's cousin) Mark Mauer.

SEE ALSO: Clark Griffith after dropping trou on Grand Avenue: "Last night was awesome"

Fulton, a 72-year-old Minneapolis resident, responded to an online escort ad. But after agreeing with a woman to exchange money for sex, he found out that the ad was actually placed by the St. Paul Police Department and the escort he thought he was dealing with was really an undercover cop.

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Collins apparently faked being straight rather effectively during his relationship with Moos.

In the Sports Illustrated piece in which he became the first major-sport male pro athlete to come out of the closet, NBA big man Jason Collins describes the gradual process by which he came to terms with his homosexuality.

"When I was younger I dated women," Collins writes. "I even got engaged. I thought I had to live a certain way. I thought I needed to marry a woman and raise kids with her. I kept telling myself the sky was red, but I always knew it was blue."

SEE ALSO: Chris Kluwe on out gay athlete: "Big kudos to Jason Collins"

So naturally, in the hours following Collins's big announcement, TMZ caught up with his ex-fiancée, Minneapolis native and Blake School graduate Carolyn Moos.

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Northwestern NoDak: Lots of jobs, lots of money, lots of dudes, and not enough ladies to go around.

Yesterday, The Awl published a story by the Star Tribune's Maya Rao about her trip to the sausage fest otherwise known as Williston, North Dakota.

SEE ALSO: Legendary North Dakota: Top 8 Reasons No-Dak Is So Damn Sexy!

Williston is located in oil-rich northwestern North Dakota, a region so starved of women that one entrepreneurial spirit tried last year to organize a party that would've involved shipping in ladies from the Twin Cities, Chicago, and other urban areas in hopes oil workers could somehow convince them to stick around. So as you'd expect, the 20-something-year-old Rao proved to be quite popular during her short visit.

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More Minnesotans were diagnosed with STDs last year than live in Hibbing.

According to the latest data from the Minnesota Department of Health, last year set a record for the number of reported chlamydia cases in Minnesota. In 2012, there were 18,048 cases, a 7 percent increase over the 16,898 reported the year prior.

SEE ALSO: Male birth control pill, Gamendazole, being developed at University of Minnesota

Overall, STDs in the state rose by 10 percent last year compared to the previous year, and there was a similar increase from 2010 to 2011.

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Despite a BCA investigation, Scannell continues to serve as county attorney.

Four months after he was hit was a court order to stop communicating with a 17-year-old girl with whom he was romantically involved, Cook County Attorney Tim Scannell is under investigation for possible criminal charges.

SEE ALSO: Matthew Ellsworth gets probation for having sex with student

The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension recently appointed former U.S. Attorney Thomas Heffelfinger to review their case against Scannell and make a call as to whether charges should be filed.

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"College Boobs" Twitter accounts combine copious cleavage with school spirit.

The #boobment has come to Minnesota... sort of.

SEE ALSO: Top 19 anonymous confessions on U of M Facebook page

Two Twitter accounts are asking University of Minnesota students to send pictures of their breasts as a way to express their maroon-and-gold pride, or something.

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Craig has spent more than $200,000 contesting a misdemeanor charge he pleaded guilty to. Not exactly the paradigm of fiscal responsibility!

Folks gave dough to GOP Sen. Larry Craig because they believed in his politics and wanted to help continue his career in the U.S. Senate. Instead, they might end up paying lawyers to argue that Craig really does have one of the widest bathroom stall stances known to man.

SEE ALSO: Larry Craig airport bathroom sex still hilarious on the The Daily Show

Craig wants to use campaign funds to foot the bill for the $216,000 he's spent trying to get the misdemeanor charge he pleaded guilty to in August 2007 removed from his record. But during a hearing before in U.S. District Court yesterday, Judge Amy Berman Jackson sounded less than persuaded by the reasoning Craig and his counsel are employing.

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Gassman wants to make Iowa the only state to prohibit no-fault divorce in hopes it'll help his granddaughter keep her pants on.

Iowa Rep. Tedd Gassman, R-Scarville -- a town that borders Minnesota -- wants to ban no-fault divorce. The reason? He's concerned divorce results in children who live with single parents sleeping around.

SEE ALSO: In Iowa, women can be lawfully fired for being so sexy, they make their boss contemplate an affair

As hard to fathom as that logic is, it's the argument he made on behalf of his bill during a news conference Monday. Even harder to believe? With the support of six other Republicans, Gassman's bill was approved by a House Subcommittee and may get another hearing.

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Police say LaPoudre charged some of the highest rates they've ever seen.

One of Lora LePoudre's Nokomis neighbors thought she worked as a day trader. Another thought the south Minneapolis mother of three was a house cleaner. Turns out she's a high-end prostitute who goes by the alias of "Hilary Holiday."

SEE ALSO: Wisconsin Olympian Suzy Favor Hamilton lived double life as prostitute, worked in Mpls

LePoudre was arrested on December 11 in an Eden Prairie Southwest Station condominium she apparently used to meet johns. She's been charged with a misdemeanor count of prostitution for which she could spend 90 days in jail and pay a $1,000 fine. That's a relative drop in the bucket considering her rates started at $400 an hour.

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