One of the world’s leading experts on E. coli will keynote the Food Microbiology Symposium Oct. 15-17 at St. Cloud State. David Acheson, a physician and former Food and Drug Administration (FDA) associate commissioner for foods, will address new trends in food safety. He is a partner at a health care and food safety consultancy. View his biography. The Food [...]

SARTELL, Minn. (AP) — Crews continue to remove large rolls of damaged paper at the Verso Paper mill in Sartell where an explosion and fire last month killed one person and injured four others.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Maya Moore and Rebekkah Brunson each scored 17 points and the Minnesota Lynx held off the San Antonio Silver Stars 83-79 on Sunday night. Lindsay Whalen had 15 points and seven assists for Minnesota (7-0). Seimone Augustus added 14 points. It is the sixth time in league history that a team has won at least seven straight [...]

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The largest trade show for U.S. ethanol producers is running in Minneapolis this week. The 28th International Fuel Ethanol Workshop and Expo, which began Monday and runs through Wednesday, is back in Minnesota for the first time since 2001 But the industry considers Minnesota to be its birthplace. Corn ethanol production began in the 1980s with small [...]

HONOLULU (AP) — Filtering the sun’s light to a minuscule fraction of its true power allowed sky-gazers around the world to watch a silhouetted Venus travel across Earth’s closest star, an extremely rare spectacle that served as a reminder of how tiny our planet really is.