He had no family to attend the graduation and his friend Keyira Nunn, 17, a junior at the school, was shot and killed in a shooting late last Friday afternoon. She died at the scene.
So yesterday afternoon, a day after arresting a suspect in the killing, the two investigators for the the St. Paul Police Department attended the commencement, accompanied St. Paul Police Senior Cmdr. Tina McNamara, who heads the homicide unit. Read more →
Steve Ross, born in Poland, was in Dachau when it was liberated by American troops. He was 14 and near death when an Army lieutenant jumped from his tank, gave him a hug and some of his food.
It was a brief encounter that propelled Ross to become a social worker in Boston, helping troubled youth. Read more →
Of four people who survived offensive actions by issuing an apology, three survived. All were men. The woman was a different story. Coincidence? Read more →
We’re not proud of the fact that we take a certain satisfaction that in the battle between the Stillwater Lift Bridge and pretty nice boat on the St. Croix River, the bridge won. Read more →
Because you didn’t ask for it, MPR News’ John Wanamaker and I are going to do a Facebook Live discussion today at noon. If you have questions you’d like to ask, don’t post them here. Post them there. We’ll probably do this every Friday to figure out the most undercovered, undermentioned, most interesting stories of Read more →
Minnesota has the fifth-largest highway system in the country, and its citizens have historically hated the idea of tolls, even though every few years someone wants to study the idea Read more →
Howard Husock doesn’t have a lot of friends on the CPB board, especially after his March anti-public media op-ed in the Washington Post, which prompted another CPB member to call him ‘an embarrassment.’ Read more →
The dairy industry in these parts is in rough shape. Milk prices are low and there’s too much of it.
What the industry needs is a little more snootiness. Read more →
The Minnesota State High School League’s John Millea calls our attention to this video from Crookston, where the high school tennis team left for the state tournament. Things like this matters in cities around Minnesota. Read more →
NPR Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep had to defend his network’s choice to interview Iowa Rep. Steve King today. King, who has regularly made racist comments that play well in his blood-red district — where his challenger dropped out of the race last week, citing death threats — is possibly the most extreme of the Read more →
The motorcycle company needed a town to use for a promotion showing how easy it is to learn to ride a motorcycle. The town’s water tower needed a coat of paint. Read more →
‘We wanted to bring something cool to amateur soccer that would bring some attention to what we’re doing,’ a player said. It worked. Read more →
“It’s called the feeling of freedom,” Jesse “The Body” Ventura barks into the mic, atop his motorcycle. “Everyone in the world should experience freedom, and you get it on the open road.” That’s the opening of the trailer for his upcoming program for RT, Russia’s state-sponsored media outlet. It’s called “The World According to Jesse.” Read more →
Mike Oblinski, a Phoenix-based photographer and storm chaser, says he doesn’t usually put out any video of his storm-chasing until the season is over. But he made an exception when he was in North Dakota last Friday evening. Read more →
Over the last several years, General Mills’ Cheerios brand has carved out a nice reputation for itself with marketing that stresses, shall we say, more modern-day values.
Advertisements weren’t afraid of multi-cultural families, for example.
Now a new ad, debuting this week, is getting attention for take the theme deeper with rapid-fire multi-culturalism. Read more →
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