Bob CollinsThe Minnesota Court of Appeals today reinstated criminal charges against a New Ulm man who fathered a child with a vulnerable adult.
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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for December 2018
Kyle Williams, a defensive tackle for the Buffalo Bills, played his last NFL game on Sunday and retired with a final lesson that has very little to do with football per se. Read more →
Dan Shrader, of Prior Lake, was likely out picking up the trash this morning. It’s his full-time job. Between a few stops, he helps build one of the best franchises in the National Hockey League. Read more →
The struggle is real in rural Minnesota, people. Oh, sure, you city slickers have it pretty easy when you need a bunch of crickets for whatever you need crickets for. But in rural Minnesota? It’s cricket eat cricket out there.
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In Dupont, Wash., Nicole McNeil uttered the three most important words a human can say to another: ‘how are you?’ Read more →
We haven’t heard much about Mollie Tibbetts since she provided a weapon for some people in the immigration debate this year by being murdered and left in an Iowa cornfield.
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A ‘charity’ that raised money to provide cellphone cards to veterans says it was done in by technology.
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Eighty-four percent of Native American women experience violence in their lifetime. They are killed at 10 times the rate of other women in the U.S. Who wouldn’t want to do something about that? This guy. Read more →
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Richard Overton had a good answer when asked his secret to living to 112.
‘Not dying,’ he said. Read more →
There’s so much packed into this video released this afternoon by the Minnesota State Patrol that we hardly know where to start. Read more →
People change. Politics changes. Times change. But the one thing that seldom changes is the annual Gallup poll of most admired people.
That changed this year somewhat. Read more →
It’s funny how things work out sometimes. Getting trashed by a reporter for Der Spiegel in a now-discredited profile of a city that — accurately — went big for Donald Trump in 2016, might be the best thing that ever happened to Fergus Falls.
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Can you stand one more warm Christmas story before we get back to the national pastime in a dog-eat-dog world? Good.
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