The Minnesota Court of Appeals today upheld the 40-year prison term of a man who paid another person a few hundred dollars to punch a pregnant woman in the stomach because he didn’t want to pay child support.
Former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty’s presidential campaign is out with a new commercial, scrapping the speeches and glitz of previous commecials and stressing Pawlenty’s role in Minnesota’s 2005 shutdown.
Musical interpretations of the shutdown, when people do good, what’s it like to be fireworks, the death of the serial comma, and the Milky Way from South Dakota.
There’s a guy in the middle of this “flash mob” in a grocery store on Cape Cod this weekend who keeps shopping, even as a marching band breaks out around him.
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