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May 16,2012 at 10:13 AM
According to KSTP meteorologist Patrick Hammer, today will be clear and sunny with a high of 76 and a low of 58.
Tomorrow there is a chance of morning storms, but later in the day it will heat up.
This weekend will be in the mid 80's until Saturday, with a chance of storms.
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May 16,2012 at 11:10 AM
Insiders and early Facebook investors will be unloading more of their shares in the initial public offering, the company said Wednesday, as they take advantage of investor demand......
May 16,2012 at 4:05 PM
Wheat futures soared 5 percent as dry weather in the U.S. brought worries that the crop wouldn’t be nearly as large as traders had expected.
Reports of a drought in Russia also had traders anticipating tighter supplies of wheat. The July...
May 16,2012 at 4:05 PM
HOUSING STARTS RISE: U.S. homebuilding rose to nearly a three-year high in April. Builders broke ground at a seasonally adjusted annual pace of 717,000 homes, the Commerce Department said Wednesday.
FACTORY OUTPUT UP: U.S. factory output...
May 16,2012 at 4:05 PM
Figures on government spending and debt (last six digits are eliminated). The government’s fiscal year runs Oct. 1 through Sept. 30. Total public debt subject to limit May 15 15,673,665 Statutory debt limit ...
May 16,2012 at 4:05 PM
Federal Reserve policymakers are open to further efforts to stimulate the U.S. economy if growth falters or threats escalate.
Minutes of the central bank’s April 24-25 meeting released Wednesday stated that "several members" thought additional...
May 16,2012 at 4:05 PM
Maybe the U.S. economy’s strength this winter wasn’t just weather-related after all.
Home construction is near a three-year high. And factory output has risen in three of the year’s first four months.
The data released Wednesday...
May 16,2012 at 4:05 PM
U.S. hopes of reopening Pakistan’s supply routes for the Afghanistan war ahead of next week’s NATO summit are going down to the wire.
Washington is hopeful of an imminent deal. But Pakistan is insisting that the United States pay more to...
May 16,2012 at 4:05 PM
After years of bitter court fights, The Barnes Foundation opened its doors Wednesday for a sneak peek at its new location on the museum-studded Benjamin Franklin Parkway.
The $150 million modernist art palace, now home to the multibillion-dollar...
May 16,2012 at 4:05 PM
The city of Seattle has presented its police-reform counter-proposal to the Department of Justice.
The plan was hand-delivered to the U.S. Attorney’s Office on Wednesday morning, a little more than five weeks after the DOJ gave the city...
May 16,2012 at 4:05 PM
A Connecticut woman agreed Wednesday to settle her lawsuit against her Jewish congregation over the burial of a black woman in the synagogue’s cemetery, her lawyer said.
Martin Rutchik, attorney for 73-year-old Maria Balaban, said he and...
May 16,2012 at 4:05 PM
A Philadelphia woman who calls herself the "Black Madam" was ordered Wednesday to stand trial on allegations she administered illegal buttock-injections, procedures that authorities say caused serious medical problems in at least one case.
May 16,2012 at 4:05 PM
The stepmom of three children who were taken by their father to the Bahamas on a sailboat against custody orders is being held without bail in Hawaii and will be extradited to Montana.
Circuit Court Judge Greg Nakamura on Hawaii’s Big Island...