National conventions are often used to cast a spotlight on a party’s up-and-comers, and even off-hour slots are fought over.
But noticeable by his absence from the Democratic podium next week in Denver will be Minnesota U.S. Senate candidate Al Franken, who is not expected to be among the featured speakers.
Franken, a comedian known nationally for [...]
They will fly an estimated 6,234 miles to Anaheim, Seattle, Oakland, Toronto and back to the Twin Cities. They will be on the road for 15 nights and play 14 games.
This will be the longest road trip since 1969, when the Twins were gone for 17 days and played 15 games. It was a five-city [...]
The last of the reporters were filing out of his office Sunday afternoon when Yankees Manager Joe Girardi spun out of his chair and approached a bookshelf behind him. He reached for a blue binder on the shelf that contained scouting reports.
That quickly, Girardi had put aside the Yankees’ first series victory in almost a [...]
Republicans came to Minneapolis for their 1892 national convention. The riverfront hall where that event took place is now gone, but old drawings at the Mill City Museum point out where it stood.
Visitors can also channel political history at the Minnesota State Fair. Sitting or future presidents Teddy Roosevelt, William Taft, Calvin Coolidge and Dwight [...]
“We will start near the George Rogers Clark monument and tour the Old Cathedral Church,” explained Donna Pickett, field trip tour director for the society. “This tour is diverse and includes a stop at the French House as well as the structures now part of the Indiana Territories Historic Site, a composite of structures once [...]
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown handed President Bush good news on two fronts Monday: a modest increase in Britain’s troops for the tough Afghanistan fight and a fresh European effort to squeeze Iran’s nuclear ambitions.
The deeply unpopular prime minister seemed to calculate he had more to gain politically by being hawkish than he risked losing [...]
The annual trip for West Bloomfield High physics students was cut short Wednesday when the student complained of sickness and was taken to a medical facility at the park in Sandusky, Ohio, said Joey Spano of the West Bloomfield School District.
The boy then admitted to having eaten a pot brownie.
Cedar Park officials contacted a school [...]
MINNEAPOLIS - A bus carrying students and their chaperones
home from a band trip to Chicago rolled over on a highway Saturday,
killing one student and injuring the dozens of others on board,
authorities said.
The bus was traveling west on Interstate 94 about 30 miles
northwest of Minneapolis when it rolled shortly before 6 a.m. and
skidded into a ditch, [...]
The Utah Jazz are inching closer to a playoff spot and will shoot for their fourth straight win this afternoon, when they pay a visit to the Minnesota Timberwolves at the Target Center.
The Northwest Division-leading Jazz are currently fourth in the Western Conference playoff standings, and will put their 16-21 road mark to the test [...]
Not only have they never played together, only one has any real inkling of how the project is likely to unfold. They have just five days to rehearse before the shows world premiere at the tiny North Island west coast surf settlement of Raglan, population 3500, next Saturday. Forty-eight hours later, Green Fire Islands will [...]
