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Dakota County Technical and Community College has lifted a lockdown ordered Wednesday afternoon after a student reported seeing a man on the Rosemount campus carrying what appeared to be a holstered gun.
Insurgent St. Paul school board finds governing is no easy A
The four union-backed board members who swept the 2015 elections arrived with an ambitious set of demands. Two years after taking power, though, the board has yet to deliver most of the items on the insurgents' original list.
Why is it that some words or phrases catch on quicker than others? Linguist Anatoly Liberman analyzed trends from 2017 and their origins.