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How Minnesota's little, polluted Crow River clouds the Mississippi

COSMOS, Minn. — Carrie Jennings flits around the South Fork Crow River like a water bug in the old one-seat canoe she bought years ago for $100, then pauses midstream to peer down at the brown water.

Tribune News Service · Jul 25, 2022

To reduce harmful algal blooms and dead zones, the US needs a national strategy for regulating farm pollution

Midsummer is the time for forecasts of the size of this year’s “dead zones” and algal blooms in major lakes and bays. Will the Gulf of Mexico dead zone be the size of New Jersey, or only as big as Connecticut? Will Lake Erie’s bloom blossom to a human health…

The Conversation · Jul 18, 2022

Gunfire at Minneapolis park wounds 8 people, leaving 'several in critical condition'

MINNEAPOLIS — Gunfire at a park along the Mississippi River near downtown Minneapolis wounded eight people, some of them with critical injuries, officials said Tuesday.

Tribune News Service · Jul 5, 2022

'It is a Minnesota thing': Canoe racing's popular past runs direct line to present

When paddlers of all means glide through the Mississippi River for a weekend of canoe races in early summer, they'll dip into an activity that has coursed through state waters for generations.

Tribune News Service · May 11, 2022

Iconic painting of George Washington is sailing away from Minnesota for $15 million-plus

MINNEAPOLIS —"Washington Crossing the Delaware" has crossed the Mississippi River — bound from Winona's Minnesota Marine Art Museum to Christie's auction house in New York.

Tribune News Service · May 3, 2022

Grain elevator: Ruling lets slave descendants suit go ahead

Descendants of slaves who lived in southeastern Louisiana have won a key ruling allowing their legal opposition to a grain elevator to be built along the Mississippi River to go forward

The Independent UK · Apr 28, 2022

Gulf Coast, Mississippi River cities eager for flood funding

Cities on the Louisiana coast and Mississippi River are hoping the infrastructure law will bring badly needed funding to fortify levees, locks and other flood protection as climate change makes hurricanes stronger and wetter

The Independent UK · Apr 18, 2022

Caught Fish: Mississippi Angler Nets Biggest Catfish In States History

Eugene Cronley, from the city of Brandon, caught the 131-lb whopper in the Mississippi River on April 7th.

Zenger · Apr 15, 2022

Record-shattering catfish caught on Mississippi River

A Mississippi angler has shattered the state record for blue catfish after a 40-minute fight with what he described as “a fish of a lifetime.”

USA Today Sports Media Group · Apr 12, 2022

Boy, 4, dies after accidently shooting himself in car while mother smoked cannabis in Louisiana

Jarion Walker shot himself at around 10.45pm on Saturday in a residential neighbourhood just across the Mississippi River from New Orleans, according to Jefferson Parish Sheriff Joseph Lopinto

Irish Mirror · Feb 2, 2022