Bob CollinsThe Minnesota Court of Appeals Monday broadened state law on what constitutes criminal sexual conduct beyond actual sex in the case of a man caught arrested after online conversations with a police decoy posing as a 14-year-old boy. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Crime and Justice
Any school bus driver will tell you this sort of thing happens all the time, it just happened to be in Dunn County, Wisc., (the Menomonie area) where someone with a dashcam caught the near horrifying moment when a driver couldn’t be bothered stopping for a school bus. Read more →
Abdellatif El Maarouf blew through stop signals and slammed his westbound Green Line train into a car crossing the intersection at Eustis and University, killing the driver and badly injuring a passenger. Read more →
Over the weekend, four people — three men and a high schooler — were arrested for plotting to bomb a Muslim community in New York. Good luck finding anything more than a passing mention on the news.
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The two conference championship games on Sunday proved anew that the NFL has the worst officiating in all of sports. The lamentations in the aftermath of the New Orleans – Los Angeles Rams game proves anew that the world has too many lawyers. Read more →
Child safety seats aren’t child safety seats unless you have them properly fastened to the car’s seat belts. Observe. Don’t do it like this. Read more →
The family, understandably, is ecstatic. Reporters will do their job and document the joy. You will do yours and — despite the occasional public declarations otherwise — consume as much as you can. That’s how these things work.
And yet, we need to keep the imagine of a ghost uppermost, of a girl whose parents are dead and whose emotions are flat. Read more →
Paul TostoBaby Jesus stealing stories don’t often come with happy endings. But this one does. Read more →
The 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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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 →
In a courtroom yesterday, we got to see and hear what happens when two young lives are snuffed out by a a driver, and how the system of plea bargains allows people to skate on the punishment. Read more →
The freedom to peacefully assemble and speak your mind is a beautiful thing.
At the same time, we often wonder, who are these people who have time on a workday to do so?
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KSTP reports a neighborhood group in Prospect Park has filed suit against a developer because a building that would be constructed would limit their view of and from the Prospect Park Water Tower, a.k.a. ‘the witch’s hat tower.’ Read more →
We have another theft of Jesus, people. Last week, someone stole a baby Jesus from the nativity scene in St. Cloud. Today, we learn the owners of the Cedar Rose Inn in Alexandria report someone stole theirs too. Read more →