Bob CollinsThe court agreed with attorneys for Allina Health, who claim the health care workers at United Hospital who evaluated Kirk Lloyd are granted immunity under Minnesota’s Commitment and Treatment Act, reversing a district court ruling. Read more →
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Sean Carter can’t walk or talk. That doesn’t stop him from thanking his mother. Read more →
Bob Karlstand, a Vietnam veteran, is dying by colon cancer and lung disease. He was an only child. His parents are gone. He never married. He has no family.
He’s given all his possessions away. He’s given his home to Habitat for Humanity. He’s given his retirement fund to the nursing program at the University of Minnesota. That’s $1 million.
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It only takes a quick scan of the public safety section of area newspapers to see what alcohol can do to people, and a state legislator is suggesting — again — that one answer to the problem is to allow more people to drink at a younger age.
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When it comes to getting its kids vaccinated, Minnesota isn’t much to write home about. Read more →
We all had a good chuckle in the last 24 hours about the McDonald’s in Beaver Dam, Wis., that kicked a woman out for bringing a kangaroo into the restaurant. It’s just Wisconsin being Wisconsin and all. Maybe there’s more to the story. Read more →
Over the summer, North Carolina TV news anchor Larry Stogner was among the thousands of people who took the ‘ice bucket challenge’ to call attention to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis — Lou Gehrig’s Disease.
Then he was diagnosed with ALS. Read more →
The province owns the land that the The Wilderness Discovery Resort leases and wants to sell it for market value, which the resort owners can’t afford. Read more →
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who’s over in Europe burnishing his foreign policy credentials, just injected the vaccine issue into his likely 2016 presidential campaign. Read more →
If you had to line up all the possessions of your life, put price tags on them, and then watch people come pick through them, could you? Read more →
The Department of Public Safety has answered the question today in releasing the counties targeted for increased DUI patrols around the Super Bowl. Read more →
Are women giving up swimming because they’re ashamed of their bodies?
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A Canadian corporation is holding an online promotion to get people talking about mental illness and eliminate what the company says is a stigma against it by virtue of the thought that mental illness is a character flaw, a weakness, if you will. Read more →
Sometime in June or July, if things work out as she hopes, Maxine Renning of Los Angeles will ride her bike into Minneapolis. She admits she’s not much of a cyclist but by then she will be. She’ll be riding from Baltimore and will stop here on her way to Seattle as part of a 4,000-mile ride to support people fighting cancer. That seems to be her specialty.
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Insurance hassles and regulations are forcing many rural hospitals to close their obstetrics facilities, Read more →