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    What is your home worth? Realtors and appraiser dispel 6 myths
    A home is often one of the biggest purchases and largest assets a person will obtain in their lifetime. But when it's time to sell or refinance,...
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    The Rev. Dominique Buchholz engages a young congregant during an outdoor service at Sharon Lutheran Church in Grand Forks. Eric Hylden / Forum News Serviceplay button
    Winging it on a prayer: churches are trying new ways to attract young followers
    GRAND FORKS, N.D.—The names of hundreds and hundreds of people are hidden, but not forgotten, beneath the rug in the Worship Center at...
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    People on a mine tour on the 27th level of the mine board a train at Soudan Underground Mine State Park in Soudan Thursday aftenoon. (Clint Austin / Forum News Service)play button
    Minnesota mining's place in American history
    SOUDAN, Minn. — Imagine walking three-quarters of a mile through a mine tunnel in complete darkness to find iron ore, park interpreter...
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    Jake Boyce gathers up Mike and Katelynn Buchanan over a spot near a tall cliff on Wednesday, July 19, 2017, so they can get a look at the remains of the shipwreck Madeira, a schooner-barge that sank near the shore just north of Split Rock Lighthouse in 1905. Bob King / Forum News Service
    North Shore tour offers kayakers a glimpse of Split Rock shoreline
    Mike Buchanan had spent 22 years in the U.S. Coast Guard, including a stint at the Coast Guard's Duluth station in the 1990s. But he was about...
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    Elizabeth Vaughn, center, leads a sunset kayak tour past the aerial lift bridge on Saturday, July 8, 2017, on Superior Bay in Duluth, Minn. Vaughn works for The Duluth Experience. The Duluth Experience leads a variety of Kayak tours. Mike Krebs / Forum News Service
    A night on the town -- and on the water
    It was a warm July evening, and the Duluth-Superior harbor was a happening place. Pleasure boats buzzed about. Cars hummed across the Aerial...
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    Jake Boyce (foreground), one of Day Tripper's founders, paddles on Lake Superior with Mike and Katelynn Buchanan of North Vernon, Ind., beneath the rock cliff dominated by Split Rock Lighthouse on the morning of July 19, 2017. Bob King / Forum News Service
    Sharing Duluth's outdoor adventures: Tour companies offer visitors guided experiences on trails and on the water
    On Wednesday morning, Mike Buchanan and his daughter, Katelynn, 15, found themselves in a situation they'd never experienced before. The pair...
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    Mike Wise (left) and Bobby Fischer (right) use ground penetrating radar under the supervision of Dave Maki (center) on July 14, 2017, on West Third Street in Duluth, Minn. GPR is one of the non-intrusive archeological methods being used to determine the boundries of the sacred burial grounds. Mike Krebs / Forum News Service
    Treading lightly: Non-intrusive methods used to chart Ojibwe burial grounds
    For over a month, people wearing neon safety vests have repeatedly inched their way across broken ground in Duluth's Fond du Lac neighborhood,...
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    July 22, 2017
    Hy-Vee to roll out super-sized convenience store in Lakeville
    LAKEVILLE, Minn. — Two years after its bold entrance into the Twin Cities grocery marketplace, Hy-Vee is now looking to nudge its way into the local convenience store scene — in a big way. The Des Moines, Iowa-based grocery chain is planning a super-sized convenience store...
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    Co-owner Dan Claseman cleans up panels from the ground in front of the storm-damaged screen Thursday at the Long Drive-In in Long Prairie. The drive-in was hit by the thunderstorm Monday. (Kelly Humphrey / Forum News Service)play button
    Damage at the drive-in: Iconic Long Prairie theater screen destroyed by wind
    LONG PRAIRIE, Minn. — For 61 years, the towering screen at the Long Drive-In Theatre brought double features to life for generations of...
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    Hamline student was raped after house party last year, charges say
    ST. PAUL — When a Hamline University student prepared to leave a house party in May 2016, her sister's roommate offered to walk her back...
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    Troy Eid, an attorney who specializes in Native American law, speaks to the Bakken Conference & Expo in Bismarck. Also pictured is Craig Stevens, spokesman for Grow America's Infrastructure Now, who joined a discussion about the aftermath of the Dakota Access Pipeline protests. (Amy Dalrymple, Bismarck Tribune file photo)
    Regulators consider first major ND pipeline since Dakota Access
    BISMARCK — The North Dakota Public Service Commission will hold public hearings starting Monday, July 24, on the largest pipeline proposed...
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    At rush hour a line of cars on Chestnut Street wait to cross the Stillwater Lift Bridge into Wisconsin Wednesday, July 19. (Jean Pieri / Pioneer Press)
    Farewell, lift bridge. Good riddance, traffic: Stillwater downtown businesses are giddy over a future without daily congestion created by iconic bridge
    STILLWATER, Minn. — When Brine's Bar and Restaurant was founded as a meat market in downtown Stillwater in 1958, people already were talking...
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    Minneapolis Chief of Police Janee Harteau takes part in a round table discussion on ways to reduce gun violence during a visit to the Minneapolis Police Department Special Operations Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S. on February 4, 2013. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo
    After latest police shooting, Minneapolis mayor faces calls to resign: 'You have failed us'
    Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges stepped to the microphone Friday night to announce the latest development in the most recent killing by an area...
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    A general view on Kazan's Kremlin, Russia, July 22, 2017. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov
    Congress breaks impasse on bill to slap sanctions on Russia, Iran and North Korea
    WASHINGTON - A weeks-long impasse over imposing new financial sanctions on Iran and Russia broke late Friday, with the House preparing to vote...
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    John Heard, 'Home Alone' Dad, Dies at 72
    LOS ANGELES - John Heard, best known as Peter McAllister in the "Home Alone" movies who appeared in a wide range of TV and film roles, has died...
    NewsJuly 22, 2017 - 11:34am
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