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By Craig Helmstetter, Minnesota Public Radio News Have you heard about a “summer surge” of COVID-19 again this year? Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are indeed showing a ...

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In a rugged patch of the Appalachian Trail in eastern Tennessee, volunteers size up a massive, gnarled tree lying on its side. Its tangled web of roots and dark brown soil, known as a root ball, is ...

Herald Executive Editor Ben Doody rates the impact that conference realignment had on Nebraska and every other school that ...

On top of all of that random knowledge you now have about Minnesota, let's add this to the list: Minnesota now has a state ...