Bob CollinsThis being Super Bowl week, we welcome back one of the better new traditions of the game — the release of the Bad Lip Reading video of the 2015-16 NFL season. Read more →
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Archives for February 2016
At Phoenix Children’s Hospital, Heather Clark met Jordan Drake and her family. Jordan, now 4, has had six surgeries because of a congenital heart defect.
Heather held a stethoscope to Jordan’s chest the other day, and heard her son’s beating heart. Read more →
Fargo North High School’s nightmare is over. Joshua Renville, the kid who wanted to pose with the flag and a gun for his yearbook photo has agreed to drop the gun. Read more →
Give Iowans credit; they don’t much like bullies. Oh, sure, they liked Donald Trump enough to give him a second-place finish but the story out of the caucuses last night isn’t who won so much as who didn’t.
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It took a lot of effort to find a music teacher for the Lancaster, Minn., school system. The school in the town of 335 got one applicant. Now, immigration rules are sending her back to Canada, Valley News Live reports today. Read more →
How is it possible that flight attendants aboard a Minneapolis-bound Delta Airlines flight got into a fistfight on board the airplane and there’s no video posted online? Read more →
Some drivers are apparently frustrated that they can’t get the automated pay systems to work right.
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When we get something for nothing, we feel as if we’re putting one over on the world.Except that often it’s just the opposite. Read more →
We’re guessing the trumpeter swans who congregate in the open, warmer water from the Monticello nuclear plant on the Mississippi River, would be just fine on their own.
But a man made a promise to his dying wife.
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Bloomington is the latest community to go with a single-hauler, amid promises it’ll save the average homeowner about $100 a year. The response was predictable.
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