By TOM MEERSMAN, Minneapolis Star Tribune

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. - An endangered Mexican gray wolf that was recovered after a massive search last month is no longer welcome at home.

After a dangerous reunion with her sisters at the Wildlife Science Center here, she will be sent to live elsewhere.

Every sunny morning, shadows from the massive rotating blades swing across their breakfast table. The giant towers dominate the view from their deck. Noise from the turbines fills the silence that Dolores and Rudy Jech once enjoyed on their Minnesota farm.

In a victory for environmentalists, a federal judge has returned the gray wolf in the upper Midwest to federal protection under the Endangered Species Act.

The last time Republicans came to Minnesota for a national political convention, they arrived by train and moved around the host city of Minneapolis in horse-drawn carriages or newly electrified streetcars. It was 1892, and Minneapolis was eager to prove itself as an up-and-coming city to the rest of the nation.

MINNEAPOLIS -- Minnesota health officials took the unprecedented step of advising several families to evacuate their homes Sunday night after fumes from a large dairy feedlot reached unhealthy levels.