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Archives for December 2018

Crime and Justice

MN court: Marriage no defense for man who fathered child with vulnerable adult

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 31, 2018, 11:53 AM Dec 31, 2018
3 Comments

The Minnesota Court of Appeals today reinstated criminal charges against a New Ulm man who fathered a child with a vulnerable adult.
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Sports

Life lessons from a retiring football player

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 31, 2018, 10:52 AM Dec 31, 2018
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Kyle Williams, a defensive tackle for the Buffalo Bills, played his last NFL game on Sunday and retired with a final lesson that has very little to do with football per se. Read more →

Sports · The jobs we do

Full-time trash hauler builds NHL franchise in spare time

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 31, 2018, 9:05 AM Dec 31, 2018
1 Comment

Dan Shrader, of Prior Lake, was likely out picking up the trash this morning. It’s his full-time job. Between a few stops, he helps build one of the best franchises in the National Hockey League. Read more →

This or That

MN family survives the great cricket debacle of 2018

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 31, 2018, 7:00 AM Dec 31, 2018
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The struggle is real in rural Minnesota, people. Oh, sure, you city slickers have it pretty easy when you need a bunch of crickets for whatever you need crickets for. But in rural Minnesota? It’s cricket eat cricket out there.
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What’s on MPR News – 12/31/18

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 31, 2018, 6:00 AM Dec 31, 2018
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Here are the stories, topics, and guests you’ll hear today on MPR News. Read more →

Health · People doing good

He came for coffee and got a kidney

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 28, 2018, 1:26 PM Dec 28, 2018
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In Dupont, Wash., Nicole McNeil uttered the three most important words a human can say to another: ‘how are you?’ Read more →

Politics

After daughter’s killing, an Iowa mother holds on to her humanity

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 28, 2018, 9:51 AM Dec 28, 2018
4 Comments

We haven’t heard much about Mollie Tibbetts since she provided a weapon for some people in the immigration debate this year by being murdered and left in an Iowa cornfield.
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Crime and Justice

Vets’ phone card fundraiser: scam or victim of technology?

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 28, 2018, 8:43 AM Dec 28, 2018
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A ‘charity’ that raised money to provide cellphone cards to veterans says it was done in by technology.
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Crime and Justice · Health · Politics

On way out door, one final act of indecency for lame ducks

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 28, 2018, 7:25 AM Dec 28, 2018
16 Comments

Eighty-four percent of Native American women experience violence in their lifetime. They are killed at 10 times the rate of other women in the U.S. Who wouldn’t want to do something about that? This guy. Read more →

What’s on MPR News – 12/28/18

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 28, 2018, 6:00 AM Dec 28, 2018
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Here are the stories, topics, and guests you’ll hear today on MPR News. Read more →

War

Oldest WWII vet dies

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 27, 2018, 10:21 PM Dec 27, 2018
2 Comments

Richard Overton had a good answer when asked his secret to living to 112.

‘Not dying,’ he said. Read more →

Weather

Here’s a video of a Minnesota driver doing Minnesota driver things

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 27, 2018, 2:34 PM Dec 27, 2018
19 Comments

There’s so much packed into this video released this afternoon by the Minnesota State Patrol that we hardly know where to start. Read more →

Surveys and trivia

Obamas are 2018’s most admired

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 27, 2018, 2:08 PM Dec 27, 2018
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People change. Politics changes. Times change. But the one thing that seldom changes is the annual Gallup poll of most admired people.

That changed this year somewhat. Read more →

Politics

After fake story, Fergus Falls gets its do-over

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 27, 2018, 10:34 AM Dec 27, 2018
51 Comments

It’s funny how things work out sometimes. Getting trashed by a reporter for Der Spiegel in a now-discredited profile of a city that — accurately — went big for Donald Trump in 2016, might be the best thing that ever happened to Fergus Falls.
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Health · People doing good

When believing in Santa isn’t ‘marginal’

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 27, 2018, 9:15 AM Dec 27, 2018
2 Comments

Can you stand one more warm Christmas story before we get back to the national pastime in a dog-eat-dog world? Good.
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