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Remembering Lynn Stauss — a heroic leader through unimaginable disaster

Remembering Lynn Stauss — a heroic leader through unimaginable disaster

The former mayor of East Grand Forks, Lynn Stauss, died this week. On April 19, 1997, Strauss led the city through historic flooding and a fire. Current East Grand Forks mayor Steve Gander talked with Cathy Wurzer about Stauss and his legacy.
by Melissa Townsend and Cathy Wurzer

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How a history teacher and 13 Black students shaped the civil rights movement

How a history teacher and 13 Black students shaped the civil rights movement

One of the first lunch counter sit-ins of the civil rights movement took place in Oklahoma City in 1958. This weekend, the city remembers the protest and its organizer, Clara Luper.
by Destinee Adams

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The Cold War to Brittney Griner: a new twist in U.S.-Russia prisoner swaps

The Cold War to Brittney Griner: a new twist in U.S.-Russia prisoner swaps

The U.S. and Russia are trying to work out a prisoner exchange that involves basketball star Brittney Griner. While they've done deals for decades, the trading usually involves spies for spies.
by Greg Myre

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Holocaust survivor Lucy K. Smith dies at 89

Holocaust survivor Lucy K. Smith dies at 89

Funeral services were held Friday morning for St. Paul resident and Holocaust survivor Lucy K. Smith. During WWII in Poland she and her mother hid for six years and were never caught.
by MPR News Staff

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Preservation group hopes to reignite conversations with DNR about fate of Manfred House

Preservation group hopes to reignite conversations with DNR about fate of Manfred House

The fate of the Frederick Manfred House in Blue Mounds State Park is still undecided. It’s been closed to the public for years after suffering extensive water damage. A preservation group wants it repaired and reopened, but its current owner, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, is proposing another plan which will only save the famed novelist’s writing room.
by Hannah Yang

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Tom Askjem on outhouse archaeology

Tom Askjem on outhouse archaeology

Tom Askjem is a citizen historian and archivist who has made a career of digging bottles, dish fragments and other forgotten relics of the past in outhouse pits.
by Cathy Wurzer and Ellen Finn

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