Bob CollinsCandice Egan, who was subbing at Creative Arts school in St. Paul, went to the Pioneer Press with her story last Friday after the incident. Read more →
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Archives for March 2016
Would you camp outside a car dealership for a crack at buying a $35,000 car with a range of about 200 miles?
They are in Eden Prairie, KARE 11 reports Read more →
A report out of Fargo today says a SWAT team was ready to use an odd approach to end a shooting spree in which a police officer was killed. It considered encouraging the shooter, Marcus Schumacher, to kill himself.
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We need a road map forward. We need an acknowledgement that the pain and division so articulately stated on Weber’s call-in yesterday is the sound of a nation that cannot long endure.
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Frank and Mary Jo Havlak have been married for 63 years. Eight years ago, Mary started losing her memory. It’s Alzheimer’s. She’s still alive, but she’s gone now.
Frank still visits her every day, Joe Callendar writes in his latest Op-Doc for the New York Times. Read more →
Anything Wisconsin can do, Minnesota can do the same, apparently. Read more →
A Gettysburg, Pa., company is in charge of installing bird deflectors along the CapX2020 transmission line project along Highway 52 in Cannon Falls.
It’s a good view, judging by this video the project released today.
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Perhaps you remember this video from a couple of years ago, when Ken E Nwadike Jr, who runs an events company, gave away free hugs at the Boston Marathon, a year after the terrorist bombing killed innocent people and united a city in the process. Read more →
In the event you still think the National Hockey League or the fans of the Minnesota Wild are interested in getting fighting out of hockey, we give you last night’s action at the Xcel Energy Center. Read more →
The reliance on numbers is about to take a giant step forward with the announcement from Major League Baseball today that it will allow iPads and smartphones in the dugout.
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Politico’s senior editor has pushed back in a big way against President Barack Obama’s lecturing the media the other day on how to their jobs.
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Cesia Abigail, 25, owner of Abi’s Cafe in Minneapolis, was ready when a man named Marcus came in asking for some spare change. She gave him a job instead. Read more →
With so much activist and media attention focused on Jamar Clark, there’s been little energy left for the community to wonder why John Birkeland of Roseville had to die because he once gave a wrong name to police. Read more →
John Witmer, of West Allis, Wis., has more than earned the right to ask a question of any one of the three men who will appear on stage tonight for the Republican presidential debate. His daughter died for his right to be able to ask it. Read more →
On the occasion of today’s unveiling of the largest scoreboard in baseball, let us ponder this question: How much bigger can scoreboards get? Read more →