No need to knead
For physician Jeffrey Hertzberg and baker Zoe Francois, the journey to no-knead bread began innocently enough. While their toddlers learned to play the xylophone in a Minneapolis music class, Hertzberg began telling Francois about his no-knead, 5-min...
 4.9K - Nov. 10, 2009; scored 197.0 Grow lamp sends pot, home up in smoke
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) The very thing helping to allegedly grow an Eagan man s marijuana may have been his downfall. Ryan James Parranto is facing drug charges after authorities say a lamp being used to grow marijuana started a fire at his house in April...
0.8K - Oct. 29, 2009; scored 124.0 FAA grounds Northwest pilots
WASHINGTON (AP) The two Northwest Airlines pilots who overshot their Minneapolis destination are grounded indefinitely unless the National Transportation Safety Board grants them a reprieve. The Federal Aviation Administration said Tuesday that it ...
1.2K - Oct. 28, 2009; scored 124.0 New safety worry: Laptops in cockpit
WASHINGTON (AP) Two Northwest Airlines pilots who flew 150 miles past their destination because they were focused on laptop computers instead of cockpit displays may have opened a new avenue of concern for safety regulators distracting personal e...
6.2K - Oct. 27, 2009; scored 289.0 Pilots: Talking led to passing airport; explanation baffles
WASHINGTON (AP) Two Northwest Airlines pilots who overshot their destination by 150 miles before turning back should have had numerous warnings as they approached and passed Minneapolis: cockpit displays, controllers trying repeatedly to reach, the...
5.1K - Oct. 23, 2009; scored 1000.0 Sports Briefs: Group to push for playoffs over BCS
WASHINGTON Lawmakers who have been trying to prod college football to replace the Bowl Championship Series with a playoff system now have a political action committee. A group of college football fans launched the Playoff PAC with the goal of elect...
6.7K - Oct. 20, 2009; scored 124.0 NFL: Brady has big game in the snow for Patriots
Tom Brady finding his form could be bad news for the rest of the NFL. A few other quarterbacks were at their Sunday best, too. Brett Favre and Drew Brees helped their teams remain unbeaten. Ben Roethlisberger and Kurt Warner, who met in last season s...
10.1K - Oct. 19, 2009; scored 124.0 Tigers collapse in tiebreaker
MINNEAPOLIS Misplayed flyballs, poor baserunning, squandered at-bats. Jim Leyland s team made a season s worth of mistakes, all in one game. The Detroit Tigers put a fitting end to a historic collapse by committing every blunder imaginable in a 6-5...
3.7K - Oct. 7, 2009; scored 124.0 Twins win marathon to advance to playoffs
MINNEAPOLIS The Minnesota Twins rushed from their dugout even before Carlos Gomez s head-first slide into home. They knew. The Metrodome erupted in a jet-like roar, as Gomez scored the winning run well ahead of a late throw from right field to fini...
5.6K - Oct. 7, 2009; scored 124.0 Twins find themselves in one-game playoff again
MINNEAPOLIS The Minnesota Twins seem to think that 162 regular-season games aren t enough. The Twins will host the Detroit Tigers today in a tiebreaker for the American League Central title and a trip the playoffs. It is the second straight season ...
4.6K - Oct. 6, 2009; scored 124.0 Favre shows vintage form in big win
MINNEAPOLIS Brett Favre was clearly uncomfortable this week with all the attention on this reunion, trying to downplay the significance of playing the Green Bay Packers and stumbling through denials that his main motivation to unretire last year wa...
5.2K - Oct. 6, 2009; scored 124.0 AL: Twins force playoff
MINNEAPOLIS The Minnesota Twins held a season-long countdown celebrating their final season in the Metrodome, commemorated each game by pulling down a number hanging in the left field stands. During an emotional postgame ceremony on Sunday, Kirby P...
4.2K - Oct. 5, 2009; scored 124.0 Vaccine helps prevent AIDS
BANGKOK (AP) For the first time, an experimental vaccine has prevented infection with the AIDS virus, a watershed event in the deadly epidemic and a surprising result. Recent failures led many scientists to think such a vaccine might never be possi...
8.1K - Sep. 24, 2009; scored 124.0 AL: Griffey drives in four runs
SEATTLE Joe Girardi has been insisting his Yankees will need to go out and earn their playoff spot in the final two weeks of the regular season. After stumbling twice in Seattle, look where New York is with two weeks left in the season: one win fro...
4.9K - Sep. 21, 2009; scored 124.0 Twins ready to leave dome
MINNEAPOLIS Terry Francona was asked during Boston s last trip to the Metrodome what he ll remember about playing in Minnesota s puffy, climate-controlled, multipurpose stadium. Addressing reporters in a dingy hallway, the Red Sox manager briefly p...
5.5K - Sep. 19, 2009; scored 197.0 Sports Briefs: Portland signs Howard
PORTLAND Veteran forward Juwan Howard signed a one-year contract with the Portland Trail Blazers, the team announced Thursday. Howard a 15-year veteran, averaged 4.1 points in 42 games with Denver and Charlotte last season. Terms were not disclosed...
6.2K - Sep. 18, 2009; scored 124.0 AL: Texas playoff hopes take big hit
ARLINGTON, Texas Marlon Byrd denied that the slumping Texas Rangers are feeling desperation, but he put into perspective just how difficult their playoff chase has become. After the Rangers lost their fourth straight game, 4-0 to the last-place Oak...
4.2K - Sep. 17, 2009; scored 124.0 AL: Red Sox get boost with pitcher s return
BOSTON Daisuke Matsuzaka gave the Los Angeles Angels another thing to worry about in October. The Red Sox right-hander returned from a three-month stint on the DL with six shutout innings on Tuesday night to lead Boston to a 4-1 victory over the An...
5.1K - Sep. 16, 2009; scored 124.0 Sports Briefs: Bears lose star linebacker
LAKE FOREST, Ill. Chicago Bears linebacker Brian Urlacher will miss the rest of the season after undergoing surgery to repair his dislocated right wrist a major blow for a team with high expectations. Urlacher, a 10-year veteran, apparently was i...
5.8K - Sep. 15, 2009; scored 124.0 AL: Yankees keep on winning
NEW YORK Torii Hunter could laugh. Shoeless Torii that was pretty funny. My spike got caught in the wall, he said. I was running out of my shoes right there. Hunter lost a shoe chasing Mark Teixeira s two-run triple in the New York Yankees 5-3...
4.8K - Sep. 15, 2009; scored 124.0 | 
