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Orphaned elephant brings Africa closer to Otsego 2nd graders

11:49 AM, Mar 7, 2013

As a second grade teacher Erin Rehnblom is used to improvising.
So when her uncle informed Rhenblom he'd adopted a baby elephant for her students at Otsego Elementary, Rehnblom saw a path to a lesson plan that will carry her students through the year.

Lakeville South students open school food shelf

1:05 PM, Feb 28, 2013

In a dressing room where drama students get ready for their plays, Lakeville South High School also houses something intended to eliminate another drama that affects too many families, hunger.

Students tap MN program that offers college credit for free

9:47 AM, Feb 21, 2013

Students in Chris Kaus's physics class hustle to their seats, flip open their computers and prepare to crunch the data they've gathered on a daily lab experiment.

Nanoscience program brings big opportunities to students at DCTC

6:10 PM, Feb 14, 2013

Educators talk about preparing students for the 21st century. That's why Dakota County Technical College is going big on something small.

Locker ads highlight passion for learning at Wayzata Central Middle School

11:26 AM, Feb 7, 2013

A crowd of students surrounds Britta Vangen at Wayzata Central Middle School in Plymouth. She's staffing a cart crammed with colorful ads

St. Odilia Kindergartners get life lessons from elders

10:50 AM, Jan 31, 2013

Once a week the older students fill Havran's room at St. Odilia School in Shoreview, as well as Julie Ruzynski's classroom across the hall

Hopkins language program offers immersion hybrid

9:16 AM, Jan 24, 2013

The Juntos program is a teacher-driven initiative for immersion students and heritage Spanish speakers who want to continue their language education beyond the 6th grade.

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1 child killed, 2 rescued after gravel slide at St. Paul park

Authorities say one child is dead and another is still missing after at a gravel slide at Lilydale Park in St. Paul on Wednesday afternoon.

4:46 PM, May 22, 2013

State corrections employees 'falling through the cracks'

A former Minnesota Department of Corrections employee who no longer can work because of a prison assault could lose his employee insurance.

2:07 PM, May 22, 2013

Body pulled from Mississippi identified as missing Wis. teen

A body pulled from the Mississippi River in St. Paul Tuesday morning has been identified as a Wisconsin teen who authorities say jumped from a bridge.

1:29 PM, May 22, 2013

Man killed in head-on crash near Howard Lake

A 66-year-old man is dead after driving into oncoming traffic on State Highway 12 near Howard Lake.

8:08 AM, May 22, 2013

Police recover backpacks of 2 kidnapped Iowa girls

Investigators searching for a 15-year-old Iowa girl who was abducted this week have recovered her backpack along with one belonging to a 12-year-old who escaped from the kidnapper.

1:25 PM, May 22, 2013

How much new tax will high-income MN residents pay? Depends

A narrow band of Minnesotans will pay a higher income tax under the new state budget. How much more? That depends.

4:37 PM, May 22, 2013

Minn. teen songwriter Zach Sobiech loses battle with cancer

Zach Sobiech amazed those around him with his unwavering love of life and music, pursuing both with as much energy as he could muster while fighting a battle with terminal cancer.

10:20 AM, May 21, 2013

Minn. native loses horses in Oklahoma tornado

From 800 miles away, the images of Mother Nature's wrath in Oklahoma are breathtaking. From a few blocks, they're something else entirely.

9:39 PM, May 21, 2013

FBI fatally shoots man potentially tied to Boston bomber

A Florida man, believed to be an ethnic Chechen, was fatally shot Wednesday by an FBI agent who was questioning him about his ties to the Boston bombing suspects and about an unsolved 2011 triple murder in Waltham, Mass

1:17 PM, May 22, 2013

Authorities say missing SD man could be in Minnesota

South Dakota authorities are asking their neighbors in Minnesota to keep their eyes open for a missing elderly man in the early stages of dementia.

2:59 PM, May 22, 2013
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