Bob Collins
A tailgating pickup driver gets what he deserves. Read more →
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Crime and Justice
It’s not at all surprising that so many Americans are ignorant about their civil liberties given that many of the school districts in charge of teaching them can’t grasp them, either. Read more →
Barkhad Abdi, the Minneapolis resident who played the pivotal role in Captain Phillips, has some explaining to do with Customs officials. Read more →
That’s some rock-solid security they’ve got at the new World Trade Center in New York. A group of base jumpers successfully got into the new skyscraper and jumped off it. One of the jumpers, James Brady, is a former ironworker on the building. It actually happened last September but police were unable to figure out Read more →
A Mankato City Council members has started a petition calling for a presidential pardon for the 38 Dakota men who were hanged in the largest mass execution in U.S. history. Read more →
A handful of cases from federal and state judges has sought recently to clarify a long-standing argument: When you drive a car, is it constitutional that you automatically submit to chemical testing for DUI when an officer asks you too? Read more →
Superior Court Judge Sohail Mohammed said all patients enjoy strong privacy protections that give them the sole authority to decide who is at their bedside. Read more →
When the thieves started extracting data, the company saw the alarms go off, BusinessWeek reports. And a security team in Minneapolis was alerted.
So what happened? Nothing.
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Occasionally, sanity triumphs, and someone can thank a judge for that. Read more →
The world is full of people who don’t want to be involved, but the Twin Cities has two news stories today about people who just get a little tired of the jerks who try to rob people. Read more →
The short version: He grew up in Southern California, played college football, had strong family figures, wanted to be a mortician, but ended up selling drugs and going to prison. Somehow, he ended up saving lives in Saint Paul. Read more →
What can hackers steal along with the credit card data they took when they broke into Target’s servers? At least in Wisconsin, child support payments. In Wisconsin, child support from the state is given to recipients in the form of debit Mastercards, a program described as “a secure and convenient way to receive payments.” But, Read more →
They’re so cute when their small. Then they hit the teenage years, tell you how much they hate you and how they wish they’d never been born, they go into their room for a few years and come out and tell you what college they want you to pay for.
That’s the typical cycle of parenthood life. Everybody gets over it. Eventually. Read more →
A woman who works at St. Cloud’s Electrolux is suing the company because it fired her when she urinated in a box on the plant floor, after she was denied the opportunity to take an additional bathroom break beyond that which employees are allowed. Read more →
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that a school district in California was within its rights when it ordered kids who wore T-shirts adorned with the American flag to turn them inside out. Read more →