Minnesota is in a heated race with about a half dozen other states for one of the last congressional seats that will be apportioned after the 2010 U.S. Census.

Next year Hennepin County will run on a budget $100 million less than in 2009.

Gov. Tim Pawlenty has called a special election next month to fill a soon-to-be vacant seat in the Minnesota Senate.

Longtime war correspondent Joseph Galloway compares Afghanistan to Vietnam, saying President Obama's presidency will be "blighted" by this war, just as Lyndon Johnson's presidency was destroyed by Vietnam.

President Obama and his top commander in Afghanistan argue that it'll take more than boots, bullets and brawn to win the war. They say it will take a "civilian surge" - a surge of governance, education and agricultural specialists. A

Bail is set at $500,000 for a prominentMinneapolis attorney who's accused of having sex with a 15-year-oldboy.

Pawlenty's early budget proposal would give lawmakers a running start on solving a projected $1.2 billion deficit in the current two-year budget.

A Plymouth man pleaded guilty on Tuesday to defrauding Medicare out of $74,000 by billing for personal care assistant services that were never performed.