“Minneapolis” on The Daily Caller

With their guns drawn, police surrounded a man who reportedly was trying to get through security at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport with a bomb in a carry-on bag. (more)

In basketball terms, an NBA referee Monday asked a federal judge to call a technical foul on a sportswriter for bad sportsmanship. (more)

As her father stabbed her mother 120 times in their Minneapolis home, 13-year-old Brianna Nash tried mightily to fend him off, managing to wrest a bloody knife from his hands. (more)

Federal and local investigators swept through the Twin Cities area Monday and arrested more than 20 suspects in connection to an extensive human trafficking investigation involving members of a Somali gang, sources confirmed. (more)

Minnesota is not San Francisco, and Minnesotans like it that way.  It is a state where tradition, family, and religion are valued, and where the airs of yuppy, urban intellectual elitism are scorned.  Certainly there are pockets of such attitudes in some parts of the Twin Cities and on a number of university campuses throughout the state, but Minnesotans as a whole are much more meat-and-potatoes.  It is a state filled with hard-working, middle-class, blue-collar, labor union people with jobs in agriculture and industry. (more)

MINNEAPOLIS — There was no way Denard Span possibly could have been talking about Jim Thome. (more)

The homes of six Twin Cities activists, including three prominent leaders of the Twin Cities antiwar movement, were raided Friday by the FBI in what an agency spokesman described as an “investigation into activities concerning the material support of terrorism.” (more)

Target Corp. sought to take advantage of new campaign-finance rules, but ended up putting a bull’s eye on its back. (more)

MINNEAPOLIS — John Foley and Cindy Case are not desperate to sell their south Minneapolis home, but they would like to see an offer sooner rather than later. So, they decided to take a different approach to the selling process. (more)

The six-month election recount that turned former “Saturday Night Live” comedian Al Franken into a U.S. senator may have been decided by convicted felons who voted illegally in Minnesota’s Twin Cities. (more)

When NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell announced at the NFL’s Annual Meeting in Dallas that the 2014 Super Bowl game will be played in the new Meadowlands Stadium, it was less about the sizzle of a game in the Big Apple and more about the league helping the Giants and Jets.  Having the Super Bowl in the Meadowlands will allow ownership sell seats to their new $1.6 billion, 82,500-seats stadium, while rewarding the region for putting up the $1.6 billion dollars to build the new complex.
Putting the game in the New York area is a big-time game changer for all those cold weather cities that have wanted the game but have been told they needed a dome. It is a message to South Florida that, unless you build a new stadium, we might not be back for a while.   It also opened the door for California teams looking at new stadium plans in San Diego, Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area.
But more on that after we look at the real reason that the game will be played in the Meadowlands. Less than four months before kickoff, both the Giants and Jets are still trying to sell season tickets — a marked change from the old Giants Stadium, where both franchises had a generations-long waiting list for season tickets.
The problem is a three-letter acronym that has turned into a four-letter word for fans and teams alike: PSL, or a personal seat license. A PSL is a one-time purchase that gives the fan a right to buy his season tickets, but the spiraling economy turned the PSL — and, as a result, season tickets — into a luxury many could not afford. Costs of the PSLs for Jets season tickets range from $4,000 to more than $30,000, while Giants PSLs run anywhere from $1,000 to $20,000.
While the Giants are about 2,500 PSL’s away from getting their season sold out, the Jets are another story. Despite discounts and some minor PSL and ticket reductions, they are still far short of selling the season out. That means possible blackouts for the Jets in the league’s top market.
So now back to how playing the game outdoors changes the way Super Bowls will be rewarded.
The NFL has already helped out owners in Detroit (twice), Minneapolis, Indianapolis, Houston and Dallas by awarding Super Bowls to cities willing to spend hundreds of millions of taxpayer’s dollars to build domed showplaces for the league. But by heading outdoors, you can bet the Redskins Daniel Snyder, the Broncos Pat Bowlen, the Patriots Bob Kraft, the Bears McCaskey family, the Ravens Steve Bisciotti,  Pittsburgh’s Dan Rooney, and Paul Allen in Seattle will all want to see a rotation that is similar to baseball’s All Star Game.
My guess is that the deal will likely keep the Super Bowl in warm climes and say every second or third year a new cold weather city will be given” the game.”  Whatever the case, things have certainly changed on how the Super Bowl is awarded. (more)

Vending machines in neon-splashed Tokyo have electronic eyes that evaluate customers’ skin and wrinkles to determine whether they are old enough to buy tobacco. In bathrooms at upscale Canadian bars, vending machines with flat irons enable women to defrizz their locks. In Abu Dhabi, the lobby of a luxury hotel has a vending machine that dispenses gold bars and coins at more than $1,000 an ounce. (more)

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Wal-Mart said Wednesday it is pulling an entire line of Miley Cyrus-brand necklaces and bracelets from its shelves after tests performed for The Associated Press found the jewelry contained high levels of the toxic metal cadmium. (more)

“In Germany, they came first for the Communists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist; And then they came for the trade unionists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist; And then they came for the Jews, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew; And then…they came for me … And by that time there was no one left to speak up.”
Pastor Martin Niemöller (more)

Seattle is the most dangerous city in the U.S. when it comes to cybercrime, Symantec said today. (more)

Clinton Danner’s wife told her dad last year that the “nice guy” she had married had been pimping her for sex. (more)

It’s not every day that people in America’s heartland hear “Redneck Woman” Gretchen Wilson sing Heart’s “Barracuda” to Sarah Palin. (more)

Mystery solved? (more)

MINNEAPOLIS — Tony Romo had a chance in this game — for at least one possession. Like they’d done in recent weeks, the Cowboys quickly marched down the field on their opening possession, but Romo was sacked by Vikings defensive end Ray Edwards and he fumbled the ball away. This would be a recurring theme in this game (more)

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Prosecutors say they have charged two 17-year-old boys with murder in the shooting of three men during a botched robbery at a Minneapolis corner store. (more)