Live from Game 3: Timberwolves, Nuggets meet at Target Center

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The Wolves won the first two games; no team has ever come back from down 3-0 in the playoffs.

'Minnesota's coming to life': Timberwolves' playoff bid has the fans excited - and ready for more

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Thousands of fans swarmed downtown Minneapolis for Friday's game, which marked the team's first second-round playoff appearance since 2004.
Bobby Erickson throws a beanbag while playing cornhole at Kieran’s Irish Pub before he and his friends head to the Timberwolves game tonight at Targ
Angelina Katsanis, Star Tribune
Bobby Erickson throws a beanbag while playing cornhole at Kieran’s Irish Pub before he and his friends head to the Timberwolves game tonight at Target Center.
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'Highly active' northern lights displays this weekend may be largest in nearly 20 years

5:01pm
The design of the new state flag features an abstract shape of Minnesota, cast in a deep blue and topped with an eight-point star facing north.
Politics

Flying new colors: Minnesota's redesigned state flag to make its debut at the State Capitol

11:00am
Willi Castro reaches third base on an RBI single by Twins teammate Jose Miranda against the Toronto Blue Jays on Friday.
Sports

Twins hang on to beat Blue Jays 3-2 after Ryan goes seven innings

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Vikings quarterback J.J. McCarthy said of his first NFL practice: "I was just trying to be in the present, take in the moment, and I had so much fun o
Sports

McCarthy loses bet, learns from his coach's mistake all in first Vikings practice

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Ellie, 7, eats dinner with her mother, Meta Getman, at their home in Eden Prairie. Getman, a fertility coach, gave birth to Ellie and her twin, Addie,
Business

IVF made motherhood possible for these Minnesotans. They want to protect that for others.

Dan Cohen campaigning for mayor in 2013.
Local

He fought this newspaper — and won. Dan Cohen, mainstay of Minneapolis politics for decades, dies at 87.

10:30am
Debbie Weinberg, 87, would normally be watching her beloved Minnesota Twins on television, but instead finds other ways to kill time at her home in St
Sports

Neal: Hurt most by Bally-Comcast fight? Superfans like Debbie

4:53pm
Mayim Bialik and Jim Parsons reprise their roles of Sheldon Cooper and Amy Farrah Fowler in the series finale of "Young Sheldon" on CBS.
Variety

TV shows to watch: 'Big Bang' actors give 'Young Sheldon' a fitting send-off

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Patrick McClellan, a longtime medical marijuana patient, talks about the marijuana plants he's cultivating in a grow tent for personal use Thursday, O
Politics

Minnesota pot growers sue state, seeking to legally sell their homegrown cannabis

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Opinion

Many governments worldwide failing to protect press freedom

As Reporters Without Borders' World Press Freedom Index details declines across continents, the Pulitzer Prizes highlights the need for great reporting.

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