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There was a stir earlier today about an NFL rule that does allow the commissioner to overturn a play if a major injustice occurs during the course of a game.  Today, the NFL reviewed the controversial Seattle touchdown and said there was not sufficient evidence to overturn the result of the game.

Jill Biden was on the campaign trail Friday with her husband, Vice President Joe Biden, when she went to introduce him and made an accidental reference.

Last night history was made as the most advanced spacecraft made it's way onto the planet mars.  This has been called the next step to a man on Mars, and maybe even future colonization.  Watch the video of the reaction from a very excited NASA command center.

According to Entertainment Weekly, The Dark Knight Rises star Christian Bale released the following statement on Saturday in regards to the Colorado shootings: “Words cannot express the horror that I feel. I cannot begin to truly understand the pain and grief of the victims and their loved ones, but my heart goes out to them.”  Soon after he did more than issue a statement, he boarded a plane

Currently the federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour, but many groups around the country believe it is time to raise that amount.  More than 30 events took place across the country to voice support of raising the minimum wage, including one in Duluth.

Gun control has always been a major issue of debate in America — right up alongside the more recently heated topics of abortion, same-sex marriage and health care — but the tragic shooting of 71 people during a Colorado theater’s showing of ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ has given this controversy a brand new spotlight.

Normally on Sunday, Hollywood studios release their box-office totals for the weekend to see which movie rakes in the most money.  While it is expected that "The Dark Knight Rises" will clearly be the winner this weekend, with estimates of over $160 million being made in its 3-day opening weekend, the studios are withholding numbers until Monday following the tragic events in Colorado.

At least 12 people were killed and 50 injured when someone went into an Aurora, Colorado movie theater during a midnight screening of 'The Dark Knight Rises' Friday morning, fired a smoke grenade and began shooting.

One of the most-famous skyscrapers in all the state of Minnesota is up for sale.  StarTribune.com is reporting that the IDS Center located on Nicollet Mall is being marketed by Chicago-based HFF on behalf of the building's owner Inland American Real Estate Trust Inc.

While it was anticipated, it's good to finally get official word that President Obama has declared 13 counties in Minnesota as well as three tribal reservations a federal disaster area.  This opens the door to federal aid for Aitkin, Carlton, Cook, Crow Wing, Dakota, Goodhue, Kandiyohi, Lake, Meeker, Pine, Rice, Sibley and St. Louis counties as well as the Fond du Lac Tribal Nation, the Mille La

Andy Griffith has passed away this morning at the age of 86 at a North Carolina Hospital, as reported by Fox News.  An ambulance crew was called out to his Roanoke home this morning.

The day I turned 16, I took my driver's license test.  From the day onward, I was now forever hooked to a car.  I got my first job so I could pay the high insurance cost just for me to drive.  I was now paying for gas, vehicle maintenance, and everything else in between.  A lot of the youth nowadays don't want to do that.