When you’re a professional basketball player, you really don’t need anyone to give you cars and prizes; you can buy them with the pocket change you put on the dresser every night.
But it still takes a special person to pass the wealth along to someone else.
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It’s always comforting to be reminded that people will drop what they’re doing to help an animal in distress. Read more →
Can we get a little love today for Donnell Gibson, the kind of man you want living in your city?
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You don’t often hear funeral services start with a tribute to a news reporter, but, then again, mentally ill homeless people who freeze to death alone don’t often get funerals.
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Sometimes you don’t need the whole story to know that everything’s going to be fine. Read more →
Rachel Woell, a former student at Totino-Grace High School in Fridley, and the Totino-Grace football team have been selected as the 2015 Section 5 recipients of the “National High School Spirit of Sport Award” by a national group of state high school leagues. Read more →
Jerry Jackson, the homeless veteran who froze to death last month in Indian Mounds Park in Saint Paul will get full military honors when he’s laid to rest at Fort Snelling National Cemetery on Thursday, courtesy of a Saint Paul funeral home.
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Typically, Amy Patrick’s dad would have accompanied her to her school’s father-daughter dance on Saturday night. But he couldn’t, because he was shot to death by a meth dealer last year in Mendota Heights. Her dad is Scott Patrick, the police officer. Read more →
We interrupt your normal programming for the weekly test of your tear ducts.
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The efforts of Pioneer Press reporter Mara Gottfried to help find the family of a homeless vet who froze to death in a St. Paul park is the type of story to make you want to call that relative with whom you’ve lost touch. Read more →
A Texas ‘school’s’ basketball team didn’t have any fans to watch its game. So their opponents gave them theirs. Read more →
Yasir Moore, who had a job interview at Chick-Fil-A , stopped into a Target store in Raleigh, North Carolina to pick up a clip-on tie to wear. But Target doesn’t sell clip-on ties; they sell real ties.
So a couple of Target employees helped him out. They also gave him some job-interview tips. Read more →
Bob Karlstand, a Vietnam veteran, is dying by colon cancer and lung disease. He was an only child. His parents are gone. He never married. He has no family.
He’s given all his possessions away. He’s given his home to Habitat for Humanity. He’s given his retirement fund to the nursing program at the University of Minnesota. That’s $1 million.
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The nice story about the reaction of people who pitched in to help a guy who has walked 21 miles for work in Detroit every day can’t just be a nice story about people pitching in to help a guy who has walked 21 miles for work in Detroit every day.
There’s a subtle belittling of the effort by those who favor better transportation options for people, as if people can’t stop a wound from bleeding and try to stop the war, too. Read more →
James Robertson, the Detroit man whose story of walking 21 miles a day for work and never missing a day of toil in the last 10 years prompted thousands of people to pitch in to give him a hand, has released a video via the Detroit Free Press with a pretty simple message. Read more →
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