The St. John's Bible was commissioned by monks at St. John's Abbey and University in Collegeville. Officials estimate it cost about $8 million to complete.
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Minnesota addressed their offensive line in round 1 of the draft.
Grand Old Day Anyway is a real thing, and tickets are on sale.
Police believe he was shot during an altercation in an alley.
The accident happened around 9:20 a.m.
Garrett Bradbury is a very popular name in these mock drafts.
The city may not have bike sharing, but there will be scooters to zip around on.
The collision happened around 9 p.m. Wednesday.
The Maplewood company saw its sales drop 5 percent.
The r.Cup has been noticed by bands including U2 and Jack Johnson.
Popular St. Paul restaurant Cossetta's is a few months away from debuting a $10 million, three-level addition, but, the owner has run into a potentially messy problem. The site's proposed storm water retention system is too close to the restaurant's underground food storage and food prep area.
A project that has delivered both promise and pain to parts of St. Paul has reached the halfway point. Central Corridor Light Rail Transit (LRT) officials say the 11-mile project that will link Minneapolis and St. Paul via Washington and University avenues is 50 percent complete and on schedule to be 75 percent completed by year's end. Service is slated to begin in 2014.
A former priest says officials at St. Johns Abbey in Collegeville were well aware of his inappropriate sexual contact. After St. Johns he went on to abuse members of a boys choir in Missouri. He says some 16 Catholic leaders and a top ranking Episcopalian leader were aware of the problem and chose to do nothing.
The State Capitol will soon be home to a new memorial honoring Minnesota firefighters who have died in the line of duty. According to WCCO, fundraising for the $600,000 project is complete. Plans include moving a statue at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport to the Capitol's south mall. It will join other veteran memorials next year.
To date, all the presidents of St. John's University have come from the adjacent Abbey. That may change now that the university has hired a search firm to find the successor to the Reverend Robert Koopman.
Crews have completed repairing city streets that sustained damage in the May storm. Around 1,600 sidewalk panels and 600 feet of street curb were replaced. In total, the repairs cost a little over $2 million.
The exhibit, 'Diana: A Celebration' will run from Feb. 4 to June 10 at the Mall of America. All profits generated from the display go to the princess' memorial fund.
The Catholic St. John's University in Collegeville announced Michael Hemesath as the institution's first full-time lay president. Hemesath is an economics professor at Carleton College and a 1981 graduate of St. John's. The Rev. Robert Koopmann announced he will step down at the end of this academic year.
