All over the Twin Cities in the last few days, strangers have been pushing people out of snowbanks and snowdrifts and getting no attention for it. So perhaps if the Dakota County sheriff can find three heroes, they can represent all of you who got no recognition for being the better part of us. Read more →
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As the story is told, when a foul was called sending a Minneota player to the line in a game two weeks ago, senior Thomas Hennen went to the line to shoot the free throws, even though he wasn’t the player fouled. Read more →
Hockey rage has struck — literally — a referee in Breezy Point.
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For reasons that remain unclear — there weren’t that many accidents — rush hour traffic in the Twin Cities last evening was a nightmare, particularly the stretch of I-35W southbound where someone once thought it a fine idea to design an offramp to I-94 westbound that intersected two other ramps.
The more we pave over the Twin Cities with highways, the worse the traffic seems to get, and we don’t even get bragging rights out of the deal for our horrible traffic. Read more →
Mark Kelly, the former astronaut, announced today he’s running for the U.S. Senate, and in the process schooled politicians on how to make a political ad for a campaign announcement. Read more →
Appropriately, the man was wearing a brown shirt. Read more →
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How tight is the National Football League with the TV networks who show the games?
Ask Bob Costas, the veteran NBC sports announcer who tells ESPN that NBC dropped him from last year’s Super Bowl coverage because he appeared at a University of Maryland symposium on football in November 2017 and said ‘the game destroys people’s brains.’ Read more →
The police at Towson University in Maryland are circulating images of this woman. She’s a threat. She’ll stop at nothing, apparently, to get a date for her son. Read more →
It’s tax season which means we must endure another round of blaming Americans because they like refund checks. Read more →
Wiley Miller, who draws the comic, wasn’t shy about alerting readers the obscene message was there.
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Laura Berg, 34, of Fergus Falls, Minn., is lucky to be alive. Jordan L. Paulus, 21, of East Bethel, is lucky she’s not going to prison for being on her cellphone when she should’ve been paying attention to driving when she plowed into Berg, who was on a road crew, putting her in a coma for two months. Read more →
George Hartman was in eight of his son Steve’s stories for CBS. And over the weekend, the last of them aired. George has died. Read more →
Oh, for sure it’s not a raccoon climbing a building, but a cardinal is currently at the top of the list of animals that divert the nation’s attention from less important things. Read more →
Bob Collins