Late last month, 14-year-old David Briel and his 51-year-old dad, Daniel, were killed by a silage collapse in a silo at their Barron County (Wis.) farm. Another son escaped.
The family decided to sell their heard of dairy cows after losing the two. Read more →
It’s a shame, of course, that the Forest Lake prom on Saturday fell victim to the blizzard, first at Landmark Center and then at the school. It happens and, for the most part, the kids seemed to roll with the weather punches.
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Singer Andy Grammer and his band, which is playing at the Music Hall tonight, had a performance to make before his concert in Minneapolis: the home of a fan with colon cancer who was too sick to make it to the show.
The show came to him yesterday. Read more →
There are angels who walk among us and they are mostly unrecognized until they pick up a paintbrush in a hospital and turn a necessary mask that scares kids with cancer into a Star Wars character who could be the difference between living and dying.
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Frontier Airlines seemed willing to allow Rubin Swift and his newborn daughter, Ru-Andria, to walk the streets after the airline denied his boarding their flight from Phoenix to Cleveland. The airline doesn’t allow anyone under 7 days old to fly, even though the hospital had given its blessing. Read more →
When Shaeen Pasha’s mother sat outside a Brooklyn brownstone — jobless, penniless, and about to be homeless — the neighborhood mostly ignored her. And then a white woman — “the Landlady” — said she had a room and would provide shelter.
She’s thought about her a lot lately. Read more →
To counterbalance the post earlier of a dead dog and the guy who shot it, we give you the men and women of the North Reading (Mass., of course) police and fire departments, who took charge when a woman brought her choking Saint Bernard puppy into the station. Read more →
In a ‘it’s every person for himself’ era, looking out for each other is still a pretty grand attitude, as an act in Minneapolis on Friday proves. Read more →
Will Buckley, 62, of Eau Claire, needed a kidney once his University of Minnesota doctor told him the ones he had were done for. He would be too if someone didn’t step forward. Read more →
When Dexter Ojeda’s cancer return to his brain last spring, he had to choose whether to resume the painful treatment that seemed to have eradicated the tumors first discovered when he was seven, prolonging his life by an underdetermined amount of time, or get to work on his bucket list. Read more →
Because we need it, and a little kindness won’t kill us. Read more →
Trenton Lewis, 21, of Little Rock, Ark., is supposed to be at his job loading trucks for UPS at 4 a.m. So he starts walking around midnight.
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The University of Wisconsin added a pretty solid class of recruits on National Signing Day, but didn’t have everything they needed until they signed 6-year-old Nolan Faust to the squad. Read more →
Olivia Konrardy-Buchal, 11, of Onalaska, Wis., isn’t that interested in selfies. She’s not that interested in herself. That’s why she started a tradition a few years ago of asking family and friends not to give her presents for her birthday; donate to her designated cause instead.
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Laura McCallum, MPR’s managing editor for daily news, is one of the 10,000 people volunteering during Super Bowl week. She’s been documenting her experience on NewsCut. Check out part 1, part 2, part 3 and part 4. I’m done! I finished my third and final volunteer shift from 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. as a Read more →
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