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The Court of Appeal for British Columbia made headlines last week for its decision in Rosas v. Toca, where the Court started its decision by quoting from Oliver Twist: 'If [...]

As of April 30, 2018, landlords of most residential rental units in Ontario are required to use a standard form lease agreement created by the Ministry of Housing. This change [...]

This fall, the Provincial government intends to propose legislation that would uphold and reinforce a zero tolerance policy on the sexual abuse of patients by regulated health professionals. The proposed [...]

To a certain degree, contract disputes are inevitable during the life of an organization. What effect does a particular clause have? Who is responsible if something goes wrong? How much [...]

CORRECTION PUBLISHED 02/08/09: This story gave an incorrect first name for Anne Michele Berg, the first wife of a man killed in the Wisconsin plane crash. A married couple and [...]

A Mayer, Minn., man was killed and his passenger injured early Sunday when his vehicle left County Road 122 in Carver County. Chad R. Brueggemeier, 34, was driving west when, [...]

Armed robberies at hotels in Minnetonka and Bloomington early Wednesday could be the work of the same men, police say. At about 4:20 a.m., three men robbed the Hampton Inn [...]

A half-day standoff in southwest Minneapolis with a man believed to be armed and suicidal ended peacefully late Thursday morning when the man stepped out of his house for a [...]

THE MEANING OF EVERYTHING: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary, by Simon Winchester; Oxford University Press, 260 pages, $25. The British Empire, which once made up one-quarter of the [...]

When two Minneapolis Wells Fargo employees got to work Tuesday morning, a masked man brandishing a gun in each hand jumped out of the bushes near the bank's entrance. The [...]

All Nathan Lagred remembers of his motorcycle crash is being hot and thirsty. A moderate head injury he suffered on his slide into thick brush off Nicollet County Rd. 15 [...]

When Mike Leslie heard suspicious sounds on the back deck of his home in the woods near Newport's eastern border early Tuesday, he figured it was raccoons and grabbed his [...]

About 2 inches of snow crippled the Monday morning commute, causing about 250 reported accidents on state roads and highways in the metro area. The State Patrol was 'hopping' to [...]

The Columbia crew probably knew something was wrong before the ship broke apart during reentry, said George (Pinky) Nelson, a former NASA astronaut who grew up in Minnesota. The crew [...]

A fire at a Brooklyn Center apartment building was accidental and caused by food cooking on a stove, authorities said Tuesday. It forced at least two dozen residents to flee [...]

Two shootings and a stabbing sent three people to a Minneapolis hospital, authorities said Wednesday. Officials didn't comment on the victims' conditions, and no identities were released. A man was [...]

Snow and slippery roads may have contributed to two fatal accidents in the south-metro area Tuesday. Andrew D. Gorshe, 17, of Mound was killed about 7:10 a.m. when he apparently [...]

RSEC: + Today Muslims will celebrate Eid ul-Fitr, the holiday that marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan, with gatherings at several locations around the Twin Cities. The [...]

RSEC: + On Sunday, Muslims will celebrate Eid ul-Fitr, the holiday that marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan, with gatherings at several locations around the Twin Cities. [...]

About one-third of online purchasers have had a bad experience, according to a study by NFO Interactive, a division of NFO Worldwide, a market-research firm. The study included 759 respondents. [...]

The oldest public-housing residence in Minneapolis now bears the name of Art Love, a World War II veteran who was active in community organizations. The 66-unit building at 800 5th [...]

The women who will file into Target Center in Minneapolis today and Saturday aren't going to watch the Timberwolves. They'll be gathering for the Women of Faith Conference. The conference [...]

1/3 Minnesota's first temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints opened its doors Wednesday for a limited series of public tours of the just-completed building in Oakdale. [...]

1/3 The mayors of Grand Forks, N.D., and East Grand Forks, Minn., are in the unenviable position of being experts on floods, so they plan to leave for North Carolina [...]

1/3 Negotiations aimed at selling the Minnesota Twins to new owners recessed Saturday, but discussions may resume as early as today. Twins spokesman Dave St. Peter said late Saturday that [...]

Efforts to replace a mosque damaged by fire last month remain focused in northeast Minneapolis, encouraged by a 'tremendous outpouring' of help from the community, a Muslim leader said Wednesday. [...]

***** Correction published 03/27/99: The date of Eid al-Adha, the Muslim Festival of Sacrifice, was incorrectly listed in this article. The festival is today, and there will be an observance [...]

1/3 Nearly everyone knows something about the Bible. It's the best-selling book of all time. You can, supposedly, find the good book in most hotel rooms. If you want to [...]

According to the New York Times News Service, a 1915 magazine listed the following rules of conduct for teachers: - 1. You will not marry during the term of your [...]

Some of the sights along Hennepin Avenue - young people involved in drugs and prostitution - were familiar to visiting missionary Wilfred Lai. As senior pastor of Jesus Celebration Center [...]

He was born in ancient India during the reign of a tyrannical ruler. Though for Hindus an incarnation of a god, he grew up a fugitive. He finally killed the [...]

1/3 Gary Sudduth's public life during his years with the Minneapolis Urban League was less a series of well-publicized milestones than one of quiet influence in the affairs of minority [...]

Police are looking for three men after a college student was stabbed at a Lauderdale apartment in an early-morning attack last week. The student, from South Africa, was stabbed at [...]

A man with a history of sexual offenses against children, and a record of failure in treatment, was sentenced to 10 months in prison Thursday for accosting two boys in [...]

A White Bear Lake man was killed Wednesday night when his car collided with a backloader removing snow around a fire hydrant in Maplewood. Tarold L. Goken, 36, was heading [...]

1/3 Two more men have been charged with torturing two women in south Minneapolis in an attempt to obtain information about a missing supply of crack cocaine. Danny Horsley, 25, [...]

Careless smoking was the cause of a house fire Nov. 1 that killed two young brothers in Silver Creek, Minn., officials said Wednesday. The fire started in the basement and [...]

Capt. Lou Hennessy, a cop credited with reducing homicides in Washington, D.C., will arrive in Minneapolis today to take a look at the city's homicide unit. His three-day visit is [...]

Three people died early Tuesday in Minnesota traffic accidents where dense fog obscured visibility, police said. Those deaths occurred just after a holiday weekend during which 12 people died in [...]

Traffic accidents killed three people Thursday and Friday in the Twin Cities - a 7-year-old boy in St. Paul, a 41-year-old bicyclist in Fridley and a 44-year-old pedestrian in Eden [...]

'Come On Pat' - Pat Sibert of Fridley - was elected hobo queen recently at the 96th National Hobo Convention in Britt, Iowa. 'Liberty Justice' - minstrel Jerry Justice of [...]

A 22-year-old woman drives up to the house in Isanti, Minn., that she shares with her mother to discover that police are there searching for drugs. Officers confiscate her purse, [...]

Crystal firefighters have become the first in the metro area to begin training on a 'thermal imaging system' that uses battlefield technology to see through smoke. The $25,000 CairnsIRIS system [...]

1/3 It was easy to figure out how the burglars got in. They jimmied a lock. Figuring out what they took was easy, too: just pennies. What isn't so easy [...]

1/3 Three Minneapolis neighborhoods with the highest youth homicide rates in the city are trying to do something about it with a series of gun exchanges and community forums in [...]

The holiday weekend has been designated 'Water Wise Weekend' by the state DNR. But to enhance Minnesotans' water safety for the entire summer, DNR conservation officers offer these tips: Take [...]

A man who allegedly collected $111,632 from phony slip-and-fall accidents in six states and 18 businesses, including the Minnesota Zoo, was indicted by a federal grand jury Wednesday on fraud [...]

1/3 A woman in south Minneapolis found a gun in her garden Thursday that police think was left there by one of three teenagers running from a grocery store robbery [...]

The Jerry Haaf Memorial Parking Ramp, 424 S. 4th St., Minneapolis, has won an Award of Merit for its design from the International Parking Institute. The ramp, which combines parking [...]

A St. Paul man was charged in federal court Friday with defrauding the law firm he founded. Patrick H. O'Neill Sr., 57, was accused of having O'Neill, Burke and O'Neill [...]