The podcast exploring the death of a Baltimore area high school student is over without reporter Sarah Koenig finding how whether the man serving a life sentence was wrongfully convicted. But the man who was the prosecution’s main witness was certainly portrayed as one who’d be most likely to be involved in the death of Hae Min Lee.
He wouldn’t talk on the record for the podcast, but he’s talking now. Read more →
There’s a little bit of good news for the Monarch butterfly. Initial estimates from their winter grounds suggest there are more arriving this year than last year. That would appear to confirm evidence in these parts over the summer that there were more Monarchs around than in previous years. Read more →
Though it’s heresy for me to say, radio will probably never tie a community together the way it once did, which is why there probably won’t be any more “members of the family” like Joyce Lamont and broadcasters of her day. Read more →
The NTSB’s official cause of the crash doesn’t really answer the obvious question.
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Two of the largest newspapers in the country are focusing today on justice — or lack of it — on Native American reservations in the Dakotas. Read more →
Anna Stoehr, the woman who made headlines when she was initially denied a Facebook account because of her age, was laid to rest in Potsdam on Saturday.
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Minnesota Vikings fans found out the hard way yesterday that it’s worth paying attention to the snow emergency rules in the city following the paralyzing three- to four-inch snowstorm on Saturday. Read more →
Searchers still haven’t found any sign of AirAsia Flight 8501, which disappeared Saturday while on its way from Surabaya, Indonesia, to Singapore.
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Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson is a pretty brilliant guy, so he must’ve known what he was doing when he posted this tweet on Christmas Read more →
Before we get to a week of endless lists and reviews of 2014, let’s pause for one more Christmas moment before we move along. Read more →
Bloomington’s city attorney is promising to scour the Facebook pages of organizers of last weekend’s Black Lives Matter protest at the Mall of America and use what she finds — if she finds anything — to prosecute them for the illegal protest.
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A deranged man’s assasination of two New York City police officers has derailed the nationwide protests against the killings of unarmed blacks, at least if you believe the New York Times.
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A shopping mall in Russia has had it with the U.S.-led sanctions against the country in the wake of Russia’s incursion into Ukraine.
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2014 was a tough year for Audra Daniloff, 17. The Saukville, Wisc., teen spent much of it at Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin fighting Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis, which stimulates the immune system to attack the body. Read more →
For all the doing-good stories that populate the news at this time of the year, it’s a shame someone couldn’t have stepped forward to help bring Olson’s son home. Read more →
Bob Collins