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Betsy Sathers wears the glow of a new mother as she perches on the couch in her family room, smiling and chatting with visitors while still managing to keep an eye on the 2-year-old twins burbling and cavorting at her feet.
A Minneapolis group that has issued an annual report each holiday season since 1996 to help parents decide on video games for their children is shutting its doors because of the poor economy.
David Walsh said when he was assembling his first report card on video game violence 13 years ago, children were attacking on-screen monsters or aliens with imaginary chain saws and guns.
Anyone searching for clues about the enduring popularity of Sherlock Holmes need not look only to his headquarters on London's Baker Street.
Minnesota Vikings star running back Adrian Peterson could lose his driver's license after police clocked him driving at 109 mph — nearly twice the posted speed limit — on a suburban Minneapolis highway last weekend.
Jesse Ventura is back for another stab at TV stardom, this time hosting a program that digs into conspiracy theories, including alternate views of what was behind the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and the purpose of a sprawling research center in remote Alaska.
DJ Freddy Fresh slaps a vinyl record on the turntable, cues it up and tells a student, "Remember, the top of the note was there, right? Grab it."
When the Star Tribune emerges from bankruptcy protection later this month, Minnesota's largest newspaper will be far leaner than it once was — but with the same pressure to generate revenue.
Attorney General Lori Swanson said Sunday that her office reached a sweeping legal settlement that requires a Minnesota company to get out of the business of arbitrating credit card debts and other consumer collection disputes nationwide.
While critics give the Jayhawks credit for helping invent alt-country, co-founder Mark Olson is quick to downplay the band's contributions to the rustic blend of rock and country that blossomed in the 1980s and '90s.
Guitarist Billy McLaughlin was at the top of his game a decade ago, a fingerstyle player noted for his technique of tapping on strings, when he began having problems controlling his left hand, missing notes with no clue why. Audiences thought he was drunk.
For the 35th anniversary of his "A Prairie Home Companion," humorist Garrison Keillor will be in "Lake Wobegon" when he reads the news from Lake Wobegon.
Burhan Hassan was an infant when he left his homeland of Somalia. He grew up American, a bright student with dreams of becoming a doctor or lawyer. But now his family is trying to find out why the 18-year-old was killed under mysterious circumstances in Somalia.
A Teamsters official says the union and the Star Tribune have agreed to postpone a bankruptcy court hearing set for next week on the newspaper's request to cancel its contract with unionized drivers.
A federal judge denied on Friday a request by the NFL Players Association to put the suspensions of five players on hold while the case over use of a banned substance is being appealed.
The family of a 13-year-old cancer patient who fled Minnesota with his mother because they objected to chemotherapy are using the Web to raise money for expenses that could mount as he restarts the therapy Thursday.
After winning out over 2,000 aspiring young actors to make his movie debut opposite Clint Eastwood, Bee Vang might ask himself: Do you feel lucky, punk?
The Star Tribune says it's not looking for the financing that companies often seek during bankruptcy protection. That would be a good thing for the newspaper, since such loans are hard to come by these days.
Working at a liquor store or a construction site, Nick Schenk developed an ear for realistic dialogue. Eventually he wrote a script on scrap paper while sitting at a blue-collar bar in northeast Minneapolis.
When reporter David Carr began thinking about writing his life story, he found he couldn't trust his own memory.
George Clooney can make just about any woman blush — even Renee Zellweger, his co-star in the new "Leatherheads" movie.
Author Jon Hassler, who chronicled the foibles of small-town life in "Staggerford," "Grand Opening" and other novels after starting his career late in life, has died. He was 74.
So long, Charlie Brown. SpongeBob is taking over.
It lived up to its name: The temperature in International Falls fell to 40 below zero Monday, just a few days after the northern Minnesota town won a federal trademark making it officially the "Icebox of the Nation."
When her first novel was rejected by publishers after six long years of writing, Heather McElhatton sat down and tried to figure out where "the train jumped the tracks." She began diagramming her life's choices on a discarded 6-by-10 hunk of linoleum.
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