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Police chiefs in Minnesota are strategizing on how best to deal with a tight supply of ammunition. Buffalo Police Chief Mitch Weinzetl orders ammunition months in advance, knowing it could take a while for his shipment.

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Officials will set more than 14,000 gypsy moth traps across Minnesota this spring as part of the state's annual monitoring program for the destructive tree pest. Gypsy moth caterpillars eat the leaves of many trees and shrubs.

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Leading Minnesota lawmakers have sorted out a tax package that is the linchpin of the next state budget. The top two percent of income earners will pay two percent more on a portion of their income.

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Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann has rushed out a television ad in hopes of capitalizing on the latest U.S. House vote to undo President Barack Obama's health care law.

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The Powerball jackpot has jumped to $550 million, a major climb less than a day after the latest drawing produced no winning ticket. The announcement Thursday by the Multi-State Lottery Association means ticket sales have soared as the frenzy grows for a chance to win the big prize.

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Gov. Mark Dayton is proposing that lawmakers use new revenue from taxes on cigarettes and corporate income to shore up the state's share of the new Minnesota Vikings stadium. Dayton's revenue commissioner unveiled the latest proposal Thursday in the House-Senate tax conference committee.

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Minnesota's fight to stop the spread of invasive Asian carp is going high tech. Scientists have launched a new underwater spying campaign.

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Biologists have begun collaring moose calves in the second phase of a study to determine why Minnesota's moose population is declining so rapidly. This past winter, researchers attached high-tech GPS collars to more than 100 adult moose.

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Authorities say a jogger fell to his death from a Mississippi River bluff in Red Wing. Police say the man's body was found Wednesday night at the bottom of a 200-foot-high rock wall on the north side of Barn Bluff. Witnesses tried to revive him, but he was pronounced dead after first responders arrived.

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The state Senate majority leader says a proposed increase in the state minimum wage is not likely to happen this session because Democrats in the House and Senate can't agree how much to raise it.

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