It was only recently that Juan Romero finally began to let go of the memories from a night in June 1968.
It was only recently that he began to celebrate his birthday again, because it fell on the same month as the time he got to see Robert F. Kennedy close up. Read more →
Leena Ali had never heard of people celebrating a life after death, only sad funerals, apparently. Then she got a text to attend a celebration for someone she didn’t know. Read more →
Not since the blue dress debate of 2015 has social media been so torn — and America been momentarily distracted from reality — by a question: is it a cougar or a dog? Read more →
In Gilbert, Minn., so many birds are flying into windows that people are calling the cops. Read more →
The huge twin smokestacks in Alma, Wis., not far downstream from Lake Pepin, have been a landmark along the Mississippi River since the power station was built in 1947. Today, they blew one of them up. Read more →
Once chocolate no longer tastes good to you, what’s the point of living? Read more →
Members of the journalism community probably won’t take Christine Blasey Ford’s clear invitation to examine how they report on the survivors of sexual assault. Read more →
It flew into the grill of a car — or the car flew into it, depending on your allegiances — in southern Trempealeau County over the weekend and the driver didn’t bother stopping, figuring it was dead. He planned to deal with the carcass in the light of the next morning if he had to. The owl, however, was still alive. Read more →
It started when some of Sandra Sue Albrecht’s 11 children bought a headstone that their father, John Wendell Albrecht, 76, stole and put one he thought more appropriate in its place. His carried references from Revelations referring to the ‘fiery lake of burning sulfur.” Read more →
An employee at the Target store in Fridley is suing the company claiming her promotion was denied after she complained about sexual harassment, the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal is reporting. Read more →
The thing about Mondays is the news cycle is — for the most part — glacial and not at all interesting, so let’s bathe in alternatives while we can. Read more →
Bureaucrats have apparently survived the flooding in North Carolina and, perhaps, things aren’t as bad there as we’ve been led to believe because a woman has been arrested for rescuing animals from the flood. Read more →
It’ll be a real feather in the cap for justice in America when a lawyer for the city of Orono hauls a 74-year old woman into court to face charges of violating a law over a dock she rents on her Lake Minnetonka property. Read more →
Here’s a piece of advice for people on mass transit who feel entitled to take a picture or video of a fellow rider: Don’t. Read more →
Jamie Gonzalez Diaz, of Goodhue County, faced the dilemma too many women face: she had to choose between her job and the kids. Read more →
Bob Collins