Jaequan Faulkner, 13, the Minneapolis kid who's made national news because a city helped him get the licenses he needed to be the hot dog king of the North Side, is going pretty well for himself these days.
We don't get many news stories anymore about UFO sightings, nor do we have many colorful local personalities anymore who have the nerve to propose the building of a landing strip for UFOs.
The Vietnam War isn't over for a lot of people and the Rochester Post Bulletin's lovely feature about Ray Winkels is proof of that.
Ray is in a wheelchair thanks to Vietnam.
Michaela Sousa of River Falls was likely to get a stiff sentence for the abuse her then 4-month-old baby suffered in 2016. But her homophobia guaranteed it.
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