Bob Collins
You know who’s a good egg? Jana Shortal at KARE is a good egg.
Jana, the KARE 11 reporter/anchor, was at last night’s Minnesota Twins game when she spied two kids who would do anything for a baseball. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
People doing good
Toys ‘R’ Us is no more. The remaining stores closed on Friday night. Read more →
“I can tell you this: We are putting out a damn paper tomorrow!” – Chase Cook, reporter, The Capital Gazette Read this thread from MPR hero Jon Collins: 2) If you want media that perfectly reflects your worldview & ideology, excluding all else, you don't want journalism, you want propaganda — Jon Collins (@JonSCollins) June Read more →
Natalie Schuneman took her son, Landon, 8, to the Under Armour store in Albertville on Monday to buy his first pair of shoes since he stopped wearing corrective equipment because of a club foot.
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Members of the Henrietta Fire Department responded to an accident on Saturday in which a pizza delivery person was hurt and taken away from the scene by ambulance. But what about the pizza? Read more →
Sometimes, the eyewitness video lies about what’s really happening. Read more →
Beasley Baker, Russ Galvan, Randy Kohl, Jesse Harrison and Ben Brooks were honored by the Coast Guard on Tuesday because they saw the man floating in the river, fired up a tow boat, and threw him a lifeline, which he’d initially rejected. Read more →
Herman Borntreger, of August, Wis., not only owns a dam, he owns one of the most photographed places in all of Wisconsin: Dells Mill. Owning a dam can be an expensive proposition when it becomes unsafe. But we’re talking history here and some people just can’t walk away from it. Read more →
Easton Partridge, 6, of Chisago Lakes said he couldn’t think of anyone to invite to his birthday party because he didn’t think he had any friends. Then he found out he does. Read more →
There is no sports team in Minnesota that leads like the Minnesota Lynx.
Now, they’re showing the world an alternative to the hackneyed invite to the White House. Read more →
Just when you’re ready to give up on the internet, a daughter in Nova Scotia comes along who just wanted to do something nice for her mother, who lives in the middle of nowhere, Manitoba. Read more →
A happy end to a sad story of a veteran who felt compelled to sell his hearing aids can’t mask an important truth: people can be jerks. Read more →
Theme of the day: School custodians. Here are three stories on the subject.
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Every now and again, we need a reminder that everything is going to be OK as long as there are people like Paul Pyykkonen and Todd Sandberg who walk among us. Read more →
Early this morning in Detroit, a man climbed to the edge of a bridge over I-696 and threatened to jump.
The highway below was closed and the state police asked 13 truckers to help out. They did. Read more →