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Multiple suicides plague some area schools

Bob Collins June 2, 2010, 1:14 PM Jun 2, 2010

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A 17-year Woodbury High School student killed himself yesterday, the second student suicide there in the last month.

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Preview: The Great Textbook War

Bob Collins June 2, 2010, 12:01 PM Jun 2, 2010

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It’ll be impossible not to think about current events when you listen to a documentary on Minnesota Public Radio tomorrow about a controversy over textbooks that erupted in West Virginia in 1974.

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Five by 8

Five by 8 – 6/2/10: The YouTube battle

Bob Collins June 2, 2010, 7:14 AM Jun 2, 2010

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The Israeli flotilla assault spreads online, when Alzheimer’s hits an entire family, do dogs prefer HDTV, the Tiny Desk Concert, and the missing bear is missing again.

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Flying under the influence

Bob Collins June 1, 2010, 4:10 PM Jun 1, 2010

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Despite an arrest in Zimmerman this week, it’s unusual for pilots to fly under the influence of alcohol.

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Medtronic details payments to docs

Bob Collins June 1, 2010, 3:01 PM Jun 1, 2010

Are deals between Medtronic and physicians ‘innovation through collaboration,’ or sweetheart deals to drum up some business?

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Court: Getting to work is not your employer’s problem

Bob Collins June 1, 2010, 1:40 PM Jun 1, 2010

The Minnesota Court of Appeals today overturned an unemployment law judge’s ruling that a Good Thunder woman, who already had a 170-mile daily commute to her office in Bloomington , is not entitled to unemployment compensation because her company moved 17 miles farther to St. Paul.

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Flyover country is for flying over

Bob Collins June 1, 2010, 1:32 PM Jun 1, 2010

Astronaut Soichi Noguchi has been tweeting images of earth from the space station for six months. Guess who never got in the shot?

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Discrimination award against MPD upheld

Bob Collins June 1, 2010, 12:14 PM Jun 1, 2010

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The Minnesota Court of Appeals has cut in half an award to a Minneapolis couple who alleged police discrimination in a 2006 incident at an impound lot.

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