St. Paul police and fire personnel rescued people trapped in a burning building on Rice Street Saturday morning after a two-alarm blaze broke out, officials said. Police and fire officials responded at about 9:30 a.m. to an apartment fire in … Continued
A sweeping look at the vanishing American prairie and two crime novels set in Minnesota are this week’s offerings to our readers. “Sea of Grass”: by Dave Hage and Josephine Marcotty (Random House, $32) (Courtesy of Random House) Agriculture has … Continued
Amy Lindgren In last week’s column I described a common and frustrating job search phenomenon: The no-experience-no-job cycle. That’s where a lack of experience seems to be the block to getting a job — which is where you would get … Continued
Despite its well-documented challenges, some business advocates call reports of the fall of downtown St. Paul premature, if not entirely off base, given ongoing investment in office-to-residential building conversions, new eateries and other fresh offerings. Construction is underway on the … Continued
By HOLLY MEYER BREMEN, Ga. (AP) — Singers at Holly Springs Primitive Baptist Church in West Georgia treat their red hymnals like extensions of themselves, never straying far from their copies of “The Sacred Harp” and its music notes shaped … Continued