Last season’s warm winter helped the deer population, and that bodes well for firearm hunters anticipating the Nov. 9 opener, especially in parts of central and southern Minnesota. As many as 400,000 ...

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Clay County, a western Minnesota county mixing urban and rural, picked the winning candidate in every presidential election since 1992 — until this one.

Israel’s defeat is imminent ...