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The Cities

MPR News Notes on the news from the Twin Cities

Archives for December 2012

Charges filed in case of 19 guns found in minivan

Brandt WilliamsBrandt Williams December 31, 2012, 4:42 PM Dec 31, 2012

According to the complaint, Richfield police officers found Anderson sleeping in a minivan full of 19 rifles and shotguns – some of them loaded.

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Don Samuels mulls mayoral bid

Curtis GilbertCurtis Gilbert December 28, 2012, 12:27 PM Dec 28, 2012

A third city council member expresses interest in taking over from R.T. Rybak.

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Minneapolis man allegedly caught with AR-15 rifle and meth

Brandt WilliamsBrandt Williams December 27, 2012, 3:00 PM Dec 27, 2012

Police say 22-year-old Eric Campion told them he took his rifle outside because “he was going down to help the police and he couldn’t find his pistol”.

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Minnesota Sounds and Voices

Rock of ages

Dan Olson December 27, 2012, 10:37 AM Dec 27, 2012

The McFarlane line of master stone carvers ends with Dean; there’s not a family member waiting in the wings to carry on the craft.

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Who remembers the Jam Line?

Sasha Aslanian December 26, 2012, 9:00 AM Dec 26, 2012

My reporter’s notebook on telling the Jam Line story.

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Mpls police arrest admitted gang member with three ‘assault rifles’

Brandt WilliamsBrandt Williams December 24, 2012, 2:00 PM Dec 24, 2012
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Minneapolis police officers searched a north Minneapolis home and found three “SKS 7.62 x .39mm assault rifles and a Luger .22 caliber semi-automatic handgun.”

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Bottineau LRT corridor: Wildlife oasis or mattress dump?

Laura YuenLaura Yuen December 19, 2012, 5:15 PM Dec 19, 2012
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A Golden Valley resident shares a visual sampling of the critters she’s spotted in her wooded cul-de-sac overlooking a proposed light-rail corridor.

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Sierra Club names Southwest LRT one of best transportation projects

Jessica Mador December 19, 2012, 1:40 PM Dec 19, 2012

Southwest LRT is named one of the nation’s best transportation projects.

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OK, cynics: gov’t that works

Sasha Aslanian December 18, 2012, 3:00 PM Dec 18, 2012

Three local government programs vie for innovation prize.

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Minnesota Sounds and Voices

Hold the presses

Dan Olson December 18, 2012, 1:25 PM Dec 18, 2012

Sixty-year-old Jon Drew studied graphic arts as a high school student, but it’s an experience offered to far fewer Minnesota school students these days.

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