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Byline: Melissa Lea Beasley-Lee On Nov. 2, the article ('Route 66 centennial drives bigger wedge between association, state') by Daniel J. Chacón, appeared in The New Mexican. In it, he [...]

Washington, D.C. -- One is spending a week in Tanzania. Another fronted his own rock `n' roll band. And another threw the opening pitch at a baseball game. When Congress [...]

Washington, D.C. -- Finally, Ralph Jacobson's customers have stopped dragging their feet about weatherizing their homes. Spurred by pending tax breaks that could save them hundreds of dollars on energy-efficient [...]

Washington, D.C. -- CORRECTION PUBLISHED 08/24/05: In this Q&A interview, Sen. Mark Dayton spoke incorrectly on three points: He visited a Nike contract factory, not a Nike plant; the factory [...]

Dee Henderson, the incarcerated former Mrs. Minnesota, has had her request denied to be transferred from a federal prison in Illinois to a state prison in Minnesota, her husband said [...]

Washington, D.C. -- CORRECTION PUBLISHED 08/12/05: This article incorrectly identified when an ABC/Washington Post poll was taken. It was taken in 2001. After her Parkinson's disease was diagnosed seven years [...]

Washington, D.C. -- A federal court has denied an appeal by a former Minnesota beauty queen that she was wrongly convicted of collecting nearly $194,000 in Social Security disability payments. [...]

Washington, D.C. -- Tucked into Congress' transportation bill is a $25 million gift to Twin Cities bicyclists, runners and walkers. Minnesota is one of four states included in a federally [...]

Washington, D.C. -- Jill Johnson, 21, paid a $600 fine after she tried to sneak a pipe and marijuana into a concert last summer, but she says she only occasionally [...]

Washington, D.C. -- Flanked by TV hosts, legislators and grieving parents, Dru Sjodin's mother led a rally Tuesday for the passage of legislation that would tighten government regulation of sex [...]

Washington, D.C. -- Gov. Tim Pawlenty on Thursday urged Congress to support legislation that would require the nation to produce 8 billion gallons of renewable fuel by the year 2012, [...]

Washington, D.C. -- A year after Nancy Tufford began taking Vioxx to help ease her shoulder pain, she could no longer make it through her aerobics class and had to [...]

Washington, D.C. -- Making another attempt to close the income gap between the country's highest- and lowest-paid workers, Rep. Martin Sabo, D-Minn., introduced legislation Tuesday that would limit the tax [...]

Washington, D.C. -- Inside Union Station, as police kept close watch on bustling crowds, Kim Hellmuth sat waiting to board a train. She had heard the news of the London [...]

Washington, D.C. -- As a first-grader, Garrett Nash blurted out answers before his teacher called on him. He tickled a student sitting next to him and sometimes bolted out of [...]

Washington, D.C. -- Two Minnesota teens were among 150 youths who traveled to Capitol Hill on Tuesday to seek more funding for diabetes research. A.J. Melhus, 15, of Apple Valley, [...]

- Popular senators: Barack Obama, a first-term Democrat from Illinois, ranked No. 1, while Minnesota's Mark Dayton and Norm Coleman landed in the bottom third of a SurveyUSA poll ranking [...]

A solemn task assigned by the U.S. Army to Senate Majority Leader Dean Johnson, an Army National Guard brigadier general in the chaplain corps, accounted in part for the lack [...]

Washington, D.C. -- Good thing John Jurek finally agreed to give his Social Security number to the woman on the phone who claimed she was calling from the White House. [...]

Washington, D.C. -- The world is ill-prepared for an influenza pandemic that could kill millions of people and shut down the global economy, a panel of public health experts said [...]

Washington, D.C. -- Two Iraqi labor leaders will visit St. Paul Thursday to promote workers' rights and to urge an end to the U.S. occupation. They are part of the [...]

Washington, D.C. -- It's a chemistry riddle that has stumped some of Minnesota's top scientists: What's eating away the steel structures on the Duluth Twin Ports waterfront? Steel in the [...]

Washington, D.C. -- Minnesota-bred Marcus Peacock, a low-profile but senior figure in President Bush's budget office, has been nominated to be deputy chief of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. If [...]

Washington, D.C. -- She'd figured them out before. There'd been 'selenography' in the second round and 'nemathelminth' in the sixth. Then she'd stumbled through 'coelostat' and 'samizdat' in rounds seven [...]

Washington, D.C. -- Minnesota has two remaining hopes for victory in the 78th Scripps National Spelling Bee today. After four rounds of competition Wednesday, two young Minnesotans are still in [...]

If you're hoping to score a job with The Donald, here are some tips. Yell. Interrupt. Curse. Stand up. Yell some more. That much was clear Saturday during the Minneapolis [...]

If there's one thing 12-year-old Phil Holt learned this summer, it's that duct tape can't fix everything. Phil and six other boys, ages 10 to 13, spent the past week [...]

Sneakers double-knotted and a pedometer hooked to his belt, Hennepin County Public Health Director Todd Monson was ready -20 minutes early - for his 23-flight descent. On his floor of [...]

Half a century ago today, Bill Gleason was playing the waiting game. He wanted news of his wife, Ann, who was in labor. He wanted news of the triplets she [...]

Someday, Earnest Lockett hopes he'll be able to stand on his own two feet. He wants to get a job, stay sober and be a good role model for his [...]

His fiancee had dreamed of returning to her native Ethiopia and helping children. Now that Fregenet Tafesse Woubshet is gone, Dana Roskey is chasing the dream for her. Woubshet was [...]

A Minneapolis man leaving his apartment building Wednesday morning for a weekly breakfast date accidentally drove over a sleeping woman, killing her, authorities said. Charles Johnson, 67, planned to meet [...]

This year, July 4th passed in relative peace on Lake Minnetonka. Unlike last year, when a man died after falling overboard near Big Island, officers and boaters alike enjoyed an [...]

As her 4-year-old son, Daniel, stood curbside, arms outstretched to catch a Tootsie Roll from the clowns marching by, Linda Romans sipped her water and laughed. 'He's a small fish [...]

This July 4th, Mike Cavanaugh and his family are staying a little closer to home. Cavanaugh, 35, has taken his boat out to Big Island on Lake Minnetonka almost every [...]

The first two times, it burned to the ground. Then it was flattened by a windstorm. And then it was razed. Now in its fifth incarnation, the Lake Harriet band [...]

Today's Celebrate Northeast Parade won't just be recognized throughout northeast Minneapolis: This year, it's going national. The parade, in its 75th year, will be featured on Dateline NBC in a [...]

These guys have sharp eyes - and sharp reflexes. That much was clear not far into an eight-hour, 20-mile canoe trip down Minnehaha Creek last week with waterway experts Mike [...]

Huddled under blankets to guard against a brisk wind, groups of girls nudged each other and whispered eagerly: 'Where's Mia? Where's Mia? Do you think she'll sign my ball? I'll [...]

There was once a time when Minneapolis children couldn't play on the grass in their city's parks. Not for baseball. Not for picnics. Not for kickball. Then came Theodore Wirth, [...]

To those close to him Tim Power is known as 'the great storyteller.' Invite the Catholic priest for dinner and you might hear about how he used to preach in [...]

It's time to break out the sunscreen and flip-flops. Barring harsh weather, 10 beaches on Minneapolis lakes will open at noon today. Wading pools and water parks also are set [...]

CORRECTION PUBLISHED 06/12/04: It was reported in this article that the Minneapolis City Council's Public Safety Committee had rejected a resolution to set up a task force to study a [...]

Two struggling commercial areas - Payne Avenue in St. Paul and a stretch of Lake Street in Minneapolis - will get boosts from a new alliance of funding partners hoping [...]

Residents near the Lake of the Isles can rest easy: It's going to be a truck-free summer. Work on the Minneapolis lake will soon end for the summer, meaning that [...]

For Bob McKewin, life's needs boil down to these: a comfortable place to sleep and plenty of good food. He has the first, thanks to a room at Ebenezer Park [...]