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Archives for February 2018
The woman who just wants to collect her Powerball winnings without you knowing her name is getting offers of help in her effort… in exchange for a cut of the cash. Read more →
Youth football organizers are getting the message that parents are delivering. They don’t want their kids brains scrambled by tackle football.
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Trenton Lewis, 21, of Little Rock, Ark., is supposed to be at his job loading trucks for UPS at 4 a.m. So he starts walking around midnight.
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The nation’s health insurance system seems to have played a role in the death of a school teacher in Texas who balked at the copay for the medicine that might have saved her life. Read more →
Garrison Keillor has been erased from the University of Minnesota’s ‘Scholar’s Walk’, a tribute to famous alumni. Read more →
Nancy YangWait, what? How does American Adam Rippon skate a clean program and then finish third behind Canada’s Patrick Chan and Russian athlete Mikhail Kolyada — two guys who fell during their programs? Twitter did not understand. Here’s what happened. Read more →
The Minnesota Court of Appeals has reinstated a defamation suit against an organization that helps victims of domestic violence, ruling that a story told by a man’s ex-wife at an awards banquet and fundraising newsletter is not protected.
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Some couples are able to sell their possessions and sail into the sunset. Some couples aren’t. Read more →
The upper Midwest is ground zero for binge drinking, it’s considered acceptable to tail-gate at a football game until you’re-falling down drunk, and economic development in the region means another tap room. Just don’t put a little alcohol in a cupcake. Read more →
Bonnie McGhee was never the pride of Dilworth, Minn., but she could have been had her mother not died when she was 3. She went to live with her grandparents in Buffalo, Ok., met Rufus Brown, married him, and spent the rest of their years in Protection, Kansas. For the last decade, she’s been a reporter. Read more →
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Just another Friday night for the Denfield basketball squad. Read more →
Reflecting America’s values, customers cheated L.L. Bean and then cited a loophole to make themselves feel better by doing so. Read more →