A federal judge has awarded a paraplegicformer Olmsted County jail inmate nearly $1 million in damages.

Virginia police have released the name ofa man who was stabbed to death in the Iron Range city over theweekend.

Small businesses are a major driver of the U.S. economy, and MPR asked a national health care economist to analyze the impact of the proposed health care overhaul on a Twin Cities business.

The PUC voted unanimously to block the city of New Ulm's planned wind farm in Nicollet County.

Jan David Wald, a senior medical tech analyst with the Nobel Financial Group, spoke with MPR's Tom Crann about how the tax will affect the medical device industry.

The holidays are here and the pressure is on. You can't do anything about the snowstorm, but food maven Nigella Lawson says you can do something about the stress of holiday entertaining.

The new FAA time limits would not necessarily have helped hundreds of passengers stranded in the Twin Cities last week.

As many Americans prepare to travel over the holidays, travel expert Rudy Maxa joins Midday to answer listener questions and talk about new rules for airplanes stuck on the tarmac.

Small businesses are a major driver of the economy, so MPR asked an economist to analyze the impact of the proposed health care overhaul on Wet Paint in St. Paul.

Many people can prevent diabetes with simple lifestyle changes. But Medicare and most private insurance programs don't pay for prevention efforts.

The new FAA time limits would not necessarily have helped hundreds of passengers stranded in the Twin Cities last week.

Leaders in three rural Minnesota school districts are giving high marks to a big change they made this year -- four-day weeks. The districts say they're saving money with the move, but not enough to solve their budget woes.

It was a tough game for The Minnesota Vikings in Charlotte Sunday night, but the team's owners are hoping to turn their otherwise successful season on the football field into success at the State Capitol.

The second-oldest family owned brewery in the U.S. has survived the ups and downs of the business since the Civil War.

Michigan asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to close shipping locks near Chicago to prevent Asian carp from invading the Great Lakes and endangering their $7 billion fishery.

Longtime Star Tribune sports columnist Sid Hartman has released a new CD called "Sid Hartman and his Close Personal Friends--The Lost Tapes." The CD includes Hartman's interviews through the years.