NEWS FROM THE ISSUE OF JULY 22, 2009 Meeker County’s population fell by 230 people this year compared to 2007. Figures compiled by the Minnesota State Demographic Center were ...

Whether it's in movies, politics, or other fields, certain wrestlers have become more popular and famous due to other careers ...

Notably, former WWE broadcaster and former Minnesota Governor Jesse "The Body" Ventura. Ventura's voice was synonymous with WWE's rise to national (and global) prominence in the 1980s, and ...

Minnesota had the highest voting rates in the country, at 67 percent. The voters’ main reason for voting for Jesse seems not ideological in nature, but instead almost revolutionary. If nothing else, ...

ST. PAUL (AP) — Reform Party gubernatorial candidate Jesse Ventura said Thursday that his musings about legalizing prostitution show he has “the courage to admit that our present system is not working ...

Jesse Ventura signed autographs during his tour ... created downdrafts in some roof vents and froze others closed. Minnesota Vikings quarterback Fran Tarkenton, citing a sore arm, was excused ...

Nothing more deep or philosophical,” Buesgens said. His exit will mark the departure of one of the Legislature's most conspicuous and unique conservative voices. His floor speeches are frequent and ...

But it was another side of Martin — what one DNC member, granted anonymity to speak candidly, called his ability to be a “knife-fighter” — that Democrats and their new chair himself on Saturday ...

Martin came up in politics as a Minnesota political staffer in 1998, when pro wrestler Jesse Ventura and his Reform Party won the governorship and Democrats notched less than a third of the ...

Dietz has in the past been a key figure in politics, and he played an integral role with the Reform Party when Jesse Ventura was elected governor of Minnesota. He is also known for volunteering ...