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Prosecutors have charged a Minnesota man with manslaughter after his 5-month-old daughter died after being left for hours in a hot minivan last week. The Clay County Attorney's office charged 24-year-old Andrew Sandstrom with one count of second-degree manslaughter.

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Police say a 2-month-old boy taken from his mother's apartment in Brooklyn Park has been found safe in St. Paul. Officers following up on a tip went to a house in St. Paul and were told a car leaving the house had the baby.

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Polish prosecutors say they are reviewing files on a Minnesota man who was a commander in a notorious Nazi-led unit to see if they contain enough evidence to press charges and request extradition from the United States.

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A veteran Republican legislator from Anoka has made a surprising entrance into Minnesota's U.S. Senate race. State Rep. Jim Abeler announced his campaign Tuesday. He hadn't been on the public radar for the seat now held by Democratic Sen. Al Franken.

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The founder of Best Buy says he has plans to make his family foundation one of Minnesota's largest. Dick Schulze says he will expand the $100 million foundation to about $1 billion and will donate most of the money to education and medical research.

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A new poll finds broad support for recently-enacted tax hikes on wealthy Minnesotans and cigarette smokers. The Star Tribune's Minnesota Poll shows 58 percent of respondents support the tax increase on upper-income earners included in Gov. Mark Dayton's budget and backed by the DFL.

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Minnesota farmers who still have wet fields are creeping ahead with their remaining spring planting. In its weekly crops and weather report for Minnesota, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said Monday that a statewide average of 3.6 days were suitable for fieldwork last week, a slight improvement from recent weeks.

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Minnesota business and labor union lobbies were among the heaviest spenders on lobbying during the first five months of 2013, which coincided with the Legislature's annual session.

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A man accused of sexually abusing young boys over the past several decades has been sentenced in Crow Wing County to more than six years in prison. Seventy-year-old Tom Erickson pleaded guilty to three counts of second-degree criminal sexual conduct in a plea agreement with prosecutors.

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Some Minnesota businesses that would be subject to a new sales tax expansion are complaining loudly and trying to get parts of it repealed. The pending sales tax on warehousing services is a big concern at companies like Distribution Alternatives in Lino Lakes and Lawrence Transportation in Red Wing.

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