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WATCH: Gay Minnesota Man Allegedly Attacked At Graduation Party For Being Gay

Posted 05.29.2012

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A group of LGBT rights advocates and concerned Minnesota locals spent their Memorial Day rallying in support of a 21-year-old gay Duluth man who was r...

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Despite Success In Polls, Gay Marriage Still Facing Trouble

AP | DAVID CRARY | Posted 05.28.2012

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NEW YORK -- Poll after poll shows public support for same-sex marriage steadily increasing, to the point where it's now a majority viewpoint. Yet in a...

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Saki Knafo

Police Retreat From Foreclosed Home In Minneapolis After Standoff With Occupy Protestors

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 05.25.2012

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On Friday morning, police from the Hennepin Country Sheriff's Office abandoned an attempt to evict protestors from a foreclosed home in south Minneapo...

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Hospital CEO To Step Down Amid Accretive Health Debt-Collection Controversy

The Huffington Post | Jeffrey Young | Posted 05.24.2012

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Mark Eustis, the president CEO of a Minnesota hospital company under fire from state and federal authorities for allegedly harsh tactics its employees...

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Jeffrey Young

'Do You Want To Pay Now?': How A Hospital Hounded A Sick Patient

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeffrey Young | Posted 05.21.2012

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No one at the hospital ever said Bruce Folken's medical care would suffer if he didn't pay up, but it sure felt that way. Folken, 62, went to Fairv...

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Exposed Man Allegedly Ties Himself To Tree And Waits For Anonymous Sex

The Huffington Post | Simon McCormack | Posted 05.18.2012

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What does a guy have to do to get some anonymous sex these days? Last week, Ramsey, Minn. police say, Alan Petrusson tied himself to a tree, put a ...

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'We Are Giving The Image That We Are Money-Hungry,' Hospital Workers Say

The Huffington Post | Jeffrey Young | Posted 05.16.2012

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Employees at Minnesota hospitals that contracted with Accretive Health repeatedly complained about the company's methods of getting money from patient...

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Jeffrey Young

Hospital Debt Collector Taps Washington Bigwigs In Bid To Restore Reputation

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeffrey Young | Posted 05.15.2012

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Accretive Health, a debt-collection company under fire for allegedly hounding hospital patients over unpaid bills, has hired former President George W...

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Jeffrey Young

For Your Own Good: Debt Collectors Say They Help Hospital Patients By Demanding Money

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeffrey Young | Posted 05.11.2012

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Accretive Health, a debt-collection company under fire from Minnesota and federal officials for aggressive tactics to squeeze money from hospital pati...

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Occupy Protesters Claim Cops Got Them 'High As F--k'

Posted 05.11.2012

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Minnesota police are facing increasing pressure over claims that officers got Occupy protesters high as part of a program designed to help law enforce...

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Gay Teen's Suicide Saddens Community: 'Words Hurt More Than Anything Else'

Posted 05.11.2012

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Friends and family are mourning the loss of a Minnesota teen who jumped to his death last Sunday after allegedly being tormented by classmates for bei...

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Drought Over For Nearly All Of Minnesota

AP | Posted 05.10.2012

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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The drought is officially over for nearly all of Minnesota. The new map issued by the U.S. Drought Monitor on Thur...

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CEOs Get Served by Shareholders Sick of Political Spending

Lisa Gilbert | Posted 05.08.2012

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Lisa Gilbert

Companies should get out of the political spending game and focus on doing what they were created to do: make a profit for their shareholders.

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Jeffrey Young

Here Come The Feds: Hospital Debt Collection Under Scrutiny From Obama Cabinet Member And Democrats

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeffrey Young | Posted 05.02.2012

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Government regulators are looking into reports of aggressive debt collectors hassling patients at hospitals. Health and Human Services Secretary Ka...

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Transgender Woman Pleads Guilty In Minneapolis Manslaughter Case, But Supporters Argue She's The Victim

Posted 05.02.2012

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A black transgender Minneapolis woman pleaded guilty to second degree manslaughter in the stabbing death of a local man, but her supporters maintain s...

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Foreclosure Vandals Threaten Prospective Homeowners: 'Only Going To Get Worse'

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 05.02.2012

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The painful process of foreclosure sometimes carries over to the next prospective buyers. In Anoka, Minnesota, twenty-somethings Nate Kruckeberg a...

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David Lohr

WATCH: Military Tank Demolishes Home

HuffingtonPost.com | David Lohr | Posted 05.02.2012

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A company in Kasota, Minn., took home demolition to the next level when they used a tank to raze an abandoned house. The 150-year-old home had been...

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Thousands of Vietnam POWs Fight for Health Insurance

Scout, Ph.D. | Posted 05.02.2012

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Scout, Ph.D.

For the last two years, Mr. Khao has contacted every legislator he can, asking for official recognition and veteran's benefits for these thousands of U.S. citizens who were soldiers for the CIA's secret war in Laos. So far nothing has come to pass.

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Siblings Form Superhero Group To Help Brother, 8, Fight Rare, Fatal Disease

Posted 05.03.2012

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A rare, fatal disorder often zaps 8-year-old Ben Roseth’s strength, but it hasn’t taken away his power. According to HLN, Ben suffers from Adre...

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Nonprofit Hospitals Sued 40,000 Patients Over Unpaid Bills

The Huffington Post | Jeffrey Young | Posted 04.27.2012

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Hospitals in North Carolina are taking debt-collection to a whole new level. Certain North Carolina hospitals sued 40,000 patients for unpaid bill...

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Jeffrey Young

Debt Collector May Face Federal Investigation For 'Abusive' Hospital Tactics

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeffrey Young | Posted 04.26.2012

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A debt-collection agency that reportedly worked to obtain money owed by patients inside U.S. hospitals should be investigated by federal authorities, ...

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19 Charged For 'Brawl Of America'

Posted 04.26.2012

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Eight adults and 11 minors face a variety of charges including rioting and disorderly conduct for several fights that turned the Mall of America into ...

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Watch Out For The Undercover Debt Collector

The Huffington Post | Jeffrey Young | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Debt, Video, Debt Collectors, Uninsured, Minnesota, Health Care Costs, Economy, Hospitals, Jobs, Health Insurance, Business, Health Care, Healthcare, Money News

Next time you're at the hospital, be on notice: The person taking down your information and admitting you for treatment might not be a hospital employ...

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Barbara Lee Was Right! Amy Klobuchar Is Wrong!

Coleen Rowley | Posted 04.21.2012

Read More: Friends Committee on National Legislation, Iran, Minnesota, Senator Amy Klobuchar, Al Franken, Keith Ellison, Amy Klobuchar, Betty McCollum, Rep. Barbara Lee, Barbara Lee, Politics News
Coleen Rowley

Barbara Lee turned out to be 100% right about the wrongful wars launched on Afghanistan and Iraq and she is certainly right again -- to try and stop an even more catastrophic and illegal preemptive war on Iran!

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Lake Monster Tweets For Tourists

Posted 04.18.2012

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This is one lake monster that knows a thing or two about self-promotion -- it uses Twitter and Facebook to let people know where it's going to show up...

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