It was getting close to 9 o'clock on the night of May 9, and Vikings and state officials meeting in the governor's office had resolved pretty much every issue standing between them and a new stadium. Except one.]]> Minnesotans make the most of summer, and for plenty of them, that means weekends in the great outdoors. For folks who enjoy some tunes with that blue sky and/or starry night, summer also means music festivals. ]]> Jim "Pach" Pacholl is the kind of guy who, many people said, deserved a medal. And, courtesy of some of the three generations of St. Paul youths he mentored for nearly 40 years as a gym teacher and baseball coach, he finally got one last month. ]]> WASHINGTON -- Novelist John Grisham could hardly spin a more provocative fiction: The president and his surrogates mount an aggressive campaign to intimidate the chief justice of the United States, implying ruin and ridicule should he fail to vote in a pivotal case according to the ruling political party's wishes. ]]> One woman says she was asked to pay hundreds of dollars while hooked to a morphine drip in the emergency room. ]]>