Bob Collins
There are 28 girls in Troop 6000. They’re all homeless. It’s the first-ever Girl Scout troop for girls who are homeless, reporter Jacob Pinter reports. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
People doing good
Mary Coleman-Hernandez,o was with her family at the Milwaukee Air and Water Show last weekend when she took her wedding ring off at a park to put sunscreen on her daughter. Then she got distracted by kids and airplanes, forgot about the ring and when the family packed up to move to a better spot to watch things, she shook the blanket off and away they went.
Goodbye, wedding ring.
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At the Poor Farm Cemetery, Bob Riepe, of Perham, Minn., has thought about giving up on his one-man effort to keep up the cemetery near where the Otter Tail Poor Farm once stood. It operated from 1882 to 1936 and was abandoned until Riepe, an author, found a person he was doing research on was buried there somewhere. Read more →
A couple on their way to Wisconsin to rescue dogs from slaughter in Korea ran out of luck when their SUV broke down in Stillwater. But then a community service officer gave them the keys to his vehicle, the Pioneer Press reports. Read more →
Any story that contains the words ‘with everything going on in the world, we still have humanity,’ will always find a home on NewsCut, which is why we’re applauding the beach-goers in Panama City Beach, Fla., who created a human chain to save a family that was being swept away by the riptide. Read more →
No good deed goes unpunished, the quip goes, and make no mistake: Laura Benedict, of Augusta, Maine, does good deeds when she holds fundraisers at her restaurant. But there’s a limit on how much goodness the state of Maine can stand. Read more →
Shawn and Shamus Evans rolled into Minneapolis today enroute to Lake Charles, Louisiana.
They left Moorhead last week with the aim of running along the Mississippi River to support Ainsley’s Angels of America, providing running chairs to children along the way.
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John Tumpane, a Major League Baseball umpire, could’ve kept walking yesterday when he saw a woman climb over a railing on the Roberto Clemente Bridge in Pittsburgh yesterday afternoon.
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These days, we’ll take a little hopefulness anywhere we can find it, and if you’ve been reading the comments since last week’s court decision in St. Paul, we can use a little hopefulness. Read more →
In Zanesville, Ohio, somebody forgot to check what they were donating to Goodwill. That cost them $100,000. In Boston, a woman was distracted by her phone, so she lost a $40,000 violin.
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The Stanley Cup has had a busy week since the Pittsburgh Penguins won it — again — a week ago.
Everyone on the team gets to spend a day with it. It goes boating, and hits a few bars, maybe a school or two.
Penguins equipment manager Danny Kroll had a more worthwhile trip for it. Read more →
Christine Archibald died in her fiance’s arms in last week’s attack on London Bridge and because of that, some niceness is spreading.
The 30-year-old social worker moved from Calgary to Europe to be with her fiance.
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Rodney Smith Jr., an Alabama A&M student, thinks the path to a better life for people is behind a lawnmower. He started Raising Men Lawn Care Service in Huntsville, Al., which uses kids age 7 to 17 to mow the lawns of people who can’t. Read more →
Graham Day turned 8 on Sunday and his parents did what parents of 8-year-olds often do when kids turn 8: they planned a party, sent out invitations, and then baked and stocked-up on food. Read more →
School officials in Minnesota and around the country have warned parents to talk to their kids about the Netflix series, ’13 Reasons Why.’ A Catholic school in Canada has warned its students not to talk about the series at all.
In Michigan, some students have a better idea.
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