Bob CollinsMembers of Parliament in Ottawa barricade the door against a person with a gun. Read more →
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In a decision a justice calls ‘rare’, the Minnesota Supreme Court today overruled a lower court in Crookston that had let a man convicted of rape avoid prison. Read more →
The Twin Cities provides the backdrop for a music video unveiled this week by the website, Soul Pancake, in which a Tampa singer, Matt Hires, sings to support the local Ronald McDonald House. Read more →
Perhaps there’s another side to the story — the one that’s being told doesn’t make a lot of sense — but an East Grand Forks landlord is declining to say why he’s kicking an Iraq war vet out of an apartment. Read more →
Over in Mosinee, Wisconsin, the 8-year-old brother of a Rhinelander High School player was made honorary team captain for Saturday’s game against Mosinee High School. Read more →
You don’t see a lot of 60-second ads on TV anymore unless it’s really good. This ad, which debuted last night during game one of the World Series and was directed by Spike Lee, is really good.
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Birds are having a tough time this with week with the two area newspapers. Read more →
If you’ve dropped a friendship over political views, the odds are you’re a liberal, a new report says. Read more →
As America’s economic collapse disappears in the rear-view mirror, perhaps this is a good time to ask: What exactly did we learn from it?
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There are 9,706 NewsCut posts for you to catch up on today. Read more →
If you’re keeping score, two people out of 319 million residents of the United States have contracted Ebola. Within a week or so, the Ebola “crisis” may be over. Read more →
There are people who stand around and take video of a burning building. And there are people who run into burning buildings to rescue the people inside. Read more →
What part of the ‘stop for a school bus’ law don’t some Minnesota drivers get? All of it, apparently. Read more →
The Minnesota Court of Appeals today ruled that a man who stole a BMW from a Bloomington car dealer doesn’t have to sell his Mercedes to pay restitution for his crime. Read more →
Jarl Mohn, the new CEO of NPR forced out a highly regarded senior editor whose vision helped push NPR into a world beyond radio.
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