Two Republican congressmen from Minnesota voted against a hurricane relief package for Puerto Rico on Wednesday. Rep. Tom Emmer’s “no” vote mirrored one he cast against hurricane relief for Texas in September. Rep. Jason Lewis voted for that plan but rejected aid to Puerto Rico. Read more →
Earl Melchert was working at his home last month when a 15-year-old girl who many figured might be dead, escaped from the men who abducted her and asked him for help.
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Jason Moszer, a Fargo police officer, was just 33 years old when he was shot to death answering a domestic disturbance call in February 2016. He left behind a wife and two children. Read more →
Fewer words ever written were more accurate than these: Life is not fair. Read more →
While waiting for his grandmother to get her makeup done in Washington D.C., on Tuesday, Jaden Watts, 10, wandered into a GameStop next door.
He may not have recognized two men inside — Keith Marshall and Rob Kelley. But they recognized him, or at least the jersey he was wearing.
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Wedding photographers, brides, and grooms struggle to find just the right pose that will be distinctive and different.
You can all stop trying now. Photographer Darren Hatt’s effort last weekend can’t be topped. Read more →
Near Nerstrand, Minn., last evening, Sawyer Ruby Rose Hanson, 4, was playing in her front yard when she followed a cat into a field. She disappeared. Read more →
It’s what you do when you think no one is watching. But Cass Mundy, of Fargo, was watching the other night in the heavy rain, even though she didn’t get much of a picture.
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Farhan Abdi, a Muslim who works with Somali youth in St. Cloud, has a coffee shop that needed some help, the St. Cloud Times says.
Enter the Lutherans of Sartell. Read more →
In Florida, the people who aren’t evacuating are preparing to withstand whatever Hurricane Irma has planned for them.
That includes Pam Brekke, of Sanford, who drove 30 miles to a Lowe’s when she heard the store was getting a shipment of 216 generators. Read more →
Good news is hard to come by this week. But there was some at a pizza chain in North Dakota. Read more →
Jon Dingwall likely saved his sister Taylor’s life in a fatal UTV accident last weekend. Read more →
We interrupt the ongoing horrible news of the day for the NewsCut version of a hit of oxygen: a story about kids and baseball. And a dangerous city. And a man who tries to make a difference in what is probably a lost cause.
Because what other choice do we really have?
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A Toronto police officer has proven that sometimes you have to throw the book away.
Niran Jeyanesan was called to the local Walmart last night on a shoplifting complaint.
Store security was holding an 18-year old man who was in the process of stealing a dress shirt, tie, and socks. Read more →
It’s never too late to start, of course, but there are nowhere near enough people on the earth whose story makes you wish you were a better person.
John Carlson, who died this week in the explosion at Minnehaha Academy in Minneapolis, was clearly one. Read more →
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