A seventh-grade teacher in Wisconsin is on leave after allegedly separating students by race and then telling the kids to research games from their culture.
For the black kids, it was ‘slave games,’ according to a seventh grader in Shorewood, Wis.
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Brooke Windsor, 23, a tourist from Michigan, was in a good spot to take this picture of the Notre Dame cathedral not long before it went up in flames on Monday, and now she’s searching for the people in it. Read more →
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Chris Wenzel, a tattoo artist in Saskatoon, died last year of heart failure at 41. His wife, Cheryl, and he ran a tattoo shop.
She says he didn’t see much sense going through the process of getting a tattoo if they were just going to be buried with him, and he would’ve wanted Chris’ body of work to be preserved.
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Now that the Minnesota Legislature has gotten it together and banned the use of hand-held cellphones while driving, perhaps it’s time to turn attention to bowls of cereal. Read more →
The Minnesota Court of Appeals has affirmed a lower court order for Secretary of State Steve Simon to turn over information on voters he has refused to give to a group that insists it may show evidence of voter fraud. Read more →
It’s been four years since David Carr, the New York Times media columnist, died after collapsing in the Times’ newsroom. That’s four years we’ve have had to think countless times ‘I wish Carr were still around to see this.’ Read more →
The Kern Bridge, which has spanned the Le Sueur River in rural Mankato since 1873, somehow has survived its 145th winter and spring flooding season. Soon, it will be gone. Read more →
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The kids in Stillwater High School aren’t messing around, but the principal is pretty good at disarming them over an issue that’s got them stirred up: peeing. Read more →
You’ve got your Prince. You’ve got your Bob Dylan. And, at least where basketball-handling prowess is concerned, you’ve got your Aces. Read more →
There are some problems that can only be solved by being uniquely Minnesotan. Read more →
How young is too young when it comes to recruiting future college sports players? Read more →
Ashley McNiff, one of thousands of runners in Monday’s Boston Marathon, is running because she doesn’t want to let what happened to her friend dictate to her. Her friend was a runner. Her friend was running in broad daylight. Her friend was raped and murdered and left in the woods. Read more →
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