Bob Collins
He sells firewood by the side of the road — $5 a bundle. He’s been doing it since last year and when he first started, his wife, Helen, was alongside him.
This is how he pays his wife’s medical bills, his daughter says. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
It’s like old times in Thief River Falls where a dispute over a mark on a ballot recalls the statewide recount in the Minnesota Senate race years ago. Read more →
Next to the Super Bowl, this is the time of the year when some pretty fair advertising brains churn out some videos worth watching for the holidays. So far this year, we’ve found five that fit the bill. Read more →
The Russian/Ukranian freighter landed during a snowstorm in Duluth yesterday afternoon for refueling after being diverted from its original Winnipeg destination. It had departed earlier in the day from San Bernadino.
It left Duluth before sunrise this morning.
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Amaiya Zafar, 16, a devout Muslim from Oakdale, Minn., was disqualified before she had a chance to fight for the championship at the Sugar Bert Boxing National Championships in Kissimmee, Fla., the Washington Post reports.
She wears a hijab underneath her protective headgear when she boxes and rules are rules.
And sportsmanship is sportsmanship as Aliyah Charbonier proved to the rulemakers.
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It’s been quite awhile since we’ve seen a video of one of these surprise concerts that pop up in unexpected places.
That streak has ended thanks to the students at St. Olaf who popped up in Edina last Thursday evening. Read more →
The Times dropped in on a Milwaukee neighborhood to find out whether people who didn’t vote now wish they had. It found that many people are just fine with sitting the election out. Read more →
If you’re looking for a U.S. senator most likely to fight the policy of Donald Trump, Sen. Amy Klobuchar shouldn’t be in the picture, an analysis by FiveThirtyEight alleges today.
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The court overturned a lower court ruling that the initial search of a camper by a Maplewood police officer was permissible under the so-called “plain-view doctrine.” Read more →
It was 53 years ago tomorrow that an American president was murdered in public.
Let’s consider how much has changed since then by noting that in 1963 there was exactly one video of the killing of President Kennedy in Dallas. One. And it took 12 years before the American people saw it. Read more →
Bernie Beaudry, 62, of Hugo a sound technician for Fox Sports, was a little late getting to his spot on the sideline at U.S. Bank Stadium yesterday and paid the price for his tardiness as the Vikings took the field yesterday. Read more →
It wouldn’t be a bad thing if the world were a little more like Jacob Carrigan.
He’s the bicyclist who was struck by a woman who was fleeing in her vehicle after allegedly trying to hang a young child. Read more →
Joe died on Sunday morning, claimed by the cancer he silently battled, not telling many friends and deciding he’d die alone at home and assuming he’d be forgotten.
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