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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Crime and Justice

Arts & Culture · Crime and Justice

Victim of alleged abuse calls for boycott against Children’s Theatre Company

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 28, 2019, 8:35 AM May 28, 2019
28

The Children’s Theatre Company, which prevailed in a lawsuit over the abuse of child actors, has lost the public relations war.
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Crime and Justice

Twenty years later, Columbine shooters claim another victim

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 20, 2019, 10:30 AM May 20, 2019
4

The two Columbine High School shooters killed 12 students, including Austin Eubanks’ best friend, and one teacher before they killed themselves or each other. On Saturday, they killed Eubanks. Read more →

Crime and Justice

Road rage cyclist on the loose in Minneapolis

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 9, 2019, 7:45 AM May 9, 2019
50

It’s not often — well, never — we hear about road rage on bicycles but KARE 11 says a single bicyclist is responsible for two attacks on a school bus blocking his path. Read more →

Crime and Justice

Kenyon PD warns of gift card scam

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 29, 2019, 8:54 PM Apr 29, 2019
16

The Facebook post from the Kenyon Police Department is sad and infuriating. Someone gets scammed for $2,500 and a large area retailer doesn’t seem to be interested in doing much about it. And why would they? They get the money.
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Crime and Justice

Seat reclining dispute aboard flight from MSP ends in legal thicket

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 17, 2019, 10:35 AM Apr 17, 2019
30

A four-year legal battle raged over thea question that was answered only this month: in what jurisdiction does a trial take place, given that a flight from Minneapolis crosses eight states? Read more →

Crime and Justice

The case of the big TV delivered to the wrong address

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 17, 2019, 9:45 AM Apr 17, 2019
15

You order a TV from Amazon, but when the delivery comes, it’s a different TV. A better TV. A TV that costs twice as much as the one your ordered. Do you keep it? Read more →

Crime and Justice · Health

In challenge to rest of country, Calif. cops let drivers out of tickets if they’re organ donors

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 16, 2019, 2:16 PM Apr 16, 2019
7

An idea in California is so brilliant, there’s no good reason it shouldn’t spread to the rest of the country. Read more →

Crime and Justice · Sports

Running while female

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 12, 2019, 7:11 AM Apr 12, 2019
25

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 →

Crime and Justice · People are jerks

The people who shouldn’t be driving

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 10, 2019, 10:48 AM Apr 10, 2019
11

An 18-year-old girl in St. Peter has proven that she does not deserve to drive a motor vehicle on Minnesota roads, based on a report from the Minnesota State Patrol on Facebook today. Not now. Perhaps, not ever. Read more →

Crime and Justice · Education

#MyLastShot campaign pressures media to show the bodies

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 1, 2019, 10:35 AM Apr 1, 2019

The Columbine High School shooting 20 years ago this month is the massacre that started the wave of mass shootings in the modern crime era.

We’ve come a long way since then and many shootings never make it to the front page; they’re that common now. Read more →

Crime and Justice

Jeremy Richman tried to survive his daughter’s killing in a mass shooting. He couldn’t

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 25, 2019, 2:12 PM Mar 25, 2019

In many ways, the debate over guns ended in 2012 when the nation went on about its business and changed pretty much nothing after little kids and their teachers were slaughtered in Newtown, Conn. That must have been particularly difficult for people like Jeremy Richman, who hasn’t been able to take any positives out of Read more →

Crime and Justice · Politics

Justice pokes MN Supreme Court for ‘Sesame Street’ approach

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 20, 2019, 11:10 AM Mar 20, 2019
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There’s a good reason why Minnesota lawmakers spend hours during floor debate arguing about the wording of laws they intend to pass. Words matter.

Take the state’s law on first-degree burglary, for example. Read more →

Crime and Justice

Paper paints a soft portrait of predator who took Jayme Closs

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 19, 2019, 7:06 AM Mar 19, 2019

Why do people so hate the media? This is why.
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Crime and Justice

Arrested for drunk driving an eighth time, Wis. man tries for one last drink

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 18, 2019, 7:08 AM Mar 18, 2019

Robert Koehler, 56, of Cambria, Wis., is this week’s poster child for the drinking-and-driving habits of the Upper Midwest. Read more →

Crime and Justice

Court: Cop can’t stop driver for flipping him off

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 15, 2019, 9:04 AM Mar 15, 2019
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit was short and to the point in ruling this week that giving the finger to a cop is free speech and you can’t be pulled over for doing so. Read more →

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