Twin Cities

Democrat Susan Gaertner is playing up her experience as a prosecutor and promising to draw support from suburban swing voters as she formally launches the bid for governor she started more than two years ago.
About half of the old Northwest Airlines planes that will get Delta's colors have been repainted, and the rest will be finished by mid-2010, a Delta executive said on Thursday.
Local inventors frustrated over patent office bureaucracy
Inventors like Bill Kurtz, seen here holding brochures for some of his inventions, are frustrated at the backlog of ideas awaiting approval from the U.S. Patent Office, which last quarter rejected more than half of all the patents it reviewed.
Motorists will encounter detours and increased congestion on metro area roadways this weekend, when the southbound lanes of I-35W will close at the western junction of Hwy 62.