If you ever wanted to assess the difference between DFL senators Amy Klobuchar and Al Franken, this week’s vote to allow authorities to access phone logs, email records, cell-site data used to pinpoint locations, and your browser’s history without a warrant is a good place to start.
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If you have any heart at all, the newest member of the Minnesota Timberwolves is the kind of person you want to hug.
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Michael Feldman, host of ‘Whad’Ya Know?’ tells the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that he was ‘blindsided’ when Wisconsin Public Radio canceled the program. The last broadcast is Saturday. Read more →
A Twitter hashtag is aimed at a woman who tried to make a Supreme Court case about her racial victimization.
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The U.S. Supreme Court today has struck down part of Minnesota law that forces people suspected of driving under the influence to submit to blood tests without a warrant.
At the same time, however, the high court affirmed a Minnesota Supreme Court ruling that authorities can force a person to submit to breath tests without a warrant. Read more →
Hey, thanks a lot, Urban Bean; You’re making life miserable for a coffee shop in Florida. Read more →
Rep. Bob Gannon, R-Slinger, is proposing legislation that would triple the damages for any shootings that occur at a business where guns are banned. Read more →
From the U.S. Capitol to a courtroom in Carver County, authorities are dead set against letting you see what goes on inside. Read more →
Sure, you’re one of only 435 members of the U.S. House of Representatives, but when your mother calls and tells you to do something, you do it. Read more →
If we didn’t know better, we’d think that Cleveland Cavalier J.R. Smith and former Minnesota Timberwolves player Mo Williams were trolling Pioneer Press columnist Joe Soucheray by going shirtless during today’s mammoth parade for the NBA champion Cleveland Cavaliers in the city by the lake. Mo Williams (also shirtless) and @kevinlove with another WWE belt Read more →
David Thatcher has died. He was an engineer and tail gunner on the seventh B-25 in the group. His son posted on Facebook that his father suffered a stroke on Sunday afternoon and died this morning. Read more →
By today’s standards of what to do with dead people, dying is really bad for the environment. Chemicals used in embalming, for example, eventually leach into the earth. Cremation pollutes the air (about 500 pounds of carbon dioxide), and there’s the whole use of greenhouse gasses thing to consider.
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More than a year ago, Hanna Elshoff, 72 left Chatfield, Minn., and started pedaling a solar-powered trike around the country.
She’s still going, we learned today. Read more →
For the first time, a passenger on board Prince’s airplane is revealing what happened the night it needed to make an emergency landing in Moline, Ill., enroute to Minneapolis from Atlanta. Read more →
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