Bob CollinsIt takes quite a person to donate an organ to someone who needs it. You not only lose a body part, you lose money in some cases. Read more →
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Your daily dose of sweetness comes from — not surprisingly — Steve Hartman again.
It’s the story of Ethel Weiss of Brookline, Mass. She’s 101 now and still runs the toy and candy shop by herself. Read more →
The number of children whose parents have had their rights terminated is going up, the Strib’s Brandon Stahl writes, but the laws to make it easier to adopt aren’t working.
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The NFL season begins tonight but is the long-term health of the sport in jeopardy? Read more →
Gavin Quimby saved Winona once upon a time.
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In a perfect world there would be happy endings to stories about cancer, but there’s nothing perfect about cancer, of course. Read more →
Even as heroin use is becoming an increasing scourge in our area, ignoring the stories of the destruction in its path is far too easy. Here’s a mother’s story from Moorhead, Minn. Read more →
In South Milwaukee, Jordan Schroeder,16, would like to be playing for the South Milwaukee Rockets football team tonight when it hosts West Allis Hale. Read more →
This picture of Marcy Borders, taken just after the south tower of the World Trade Center collapsed, was one of the more iconic images of September 11, 2001. Read more →
Officials have not yet been able to find the body of a 17-year-old girl, who jumped from St. Paul’s High Bridge into the Mississippi River after texting ‘goodbye’ to a friend on Thursday.
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Last spring, a man with ALS gave two girls he didn’t know $50 with the instruction to do some good with it.
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In Cleveland last night, the twin four-year-old daughters of player Mike Aviles threw out the first pitch in the Indians’ game against the Yankees.
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Contrary to predictions, many companies did not eliminate jobs with the advent of ObamaCare, the Affordable Health Care Act. Read more →
In western Massachusetts, a town’s insistence that a treehouse for a young man with cerebral palsy cannot be built is running into a buzzsaw of pushback from neighbors who say it should be. Read more →
That band of young people who rolled through Minnesota a few weeks ago, stopping along the way on their cross-country trip from Baltimore to help people fighting cancer?
They made it to the Pacific Ocean today. Read more →