Bob Collins‘He didn’t know what he was doing. He was just being a bear,’ animal collections manager Tony Fisher told the paper. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Crime and Justice
In a decision that forced a conservative and liberal justice to dissent, the Minnesota Supreme Court has ruled authorities cannot blame the victim when determining the restitution criminals are required to pay in some cases. Read more →
Another church family is waking up today to the smoking ruins of their house of worship.
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As the face of the Minnesota State Patrol in western Minnesota, Sgt. Jesse Grabow, the public information officer, has been expert as using social media to get people to drive more safely. Read more →
A suspect takes off in a running police vehicle, crashes into another car, killing its driver and seriously injuring its passenger. Is the officer liable? Read more →
The King v. Burwell decision pitted Chief Justice John Roberts against Justice Antonin Scalia. Again. Read more →
Let’s get this out of the way at the start: Nobody is going to feel sorry for journalists. They made the choice to get into the business they’re in. We get that. But here’s some breaking news: Journalists feel, which is one of the reasons they got into the business they’re in. They hurt the Read more →
There was no talk of mercy nor forgiveness when Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was sentenced to death today for the Boston Marathon bombing. Read more →
The Minnesota Court of Appeals today provided a fascinating glimpse into a two-decade fight inside the Walser family business. Read more →
It is odd, yet true, to think that the voice of Rev. Clementa Pinckney, which a white supremacist thought he was silencing by killing him, is now being amplified to a wider audience. Read more →
I was driving home from work last night thinking about the shootings in South Carolina and also one of the most amazing mass murder stories I’ve ever heard.
In 2006, Charles Roberts walked into an Amish schoolhouse and shot 10 girls and killed five of them before killing himself. Read more →
There aren’t many people left to whom thousands of other people turn to help process that which confounds us. Jon Stewart is the exception and he was at his best last evening on the subject of the killings in Charleston.
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Today, a block away from where nine African Americans were slaughtered in Charleston, S.C., Don Lemon was again the target of complaints that he undercuts African American struggles against racism.
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Clementa C. Pinckney, the church leader, provides a fascinating background on the church and its meaning in this video posted online.
Pinckney was one of those killed.
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The only real mystery in the South Carolina massacre is why we’re reluctant to call it what it is.
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