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Minnesota Nordic skiing coach hopes Diggins’ gold will grow the sport

Minnesota Nordic skiing coach hopes Diggins’ gold will grow the sport

Gov. Mark Dayton meets today with the state’s golden girl of Nordic skiing, Jessie Diggins. Her Olympic success is bringing some much-needed recognition to the sport’s triumphs and challenges.
by Laura McCallum

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Chisago Co. wants you to have fun in jail, but it will cost you

Officials say it's about engaging the community by tossing volunteers in jail for the night. It'll cost you $40, but you get a complimentary mugshot.
by Cody Nelson

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Minneapolis mummified monkey mysteries multiply

It turns out the old Dayton’s store might not have held the only mummified monkey in Minneapolis. An old movie house monkey giveaway might have gone awry.
by Tim Nelson

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Target says it’s fired an employee over ‘OK to be white’ cards in diapers

Target had been investigating complaints that customers buying diapers at Targets in Washington, D.C., Florida and Tennessee had recently found white laminated index cards in their order containing a slogan linked to white supremacist groups.
by Paul Tosto

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How did ‘OK to be white’ cards end up in diapers at Target?

The Anti-Defamation League says it from Target customers who bought diapers at the store only to open them and find the slogan linked to white supremacist groups written on a laminated index card.
by Paul Tosto

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Internet, we need you to find this boy’s Eeyore

The stuffed donkey went missing while 10-year-old William Ihle and his family were traveling on spring break. William has a rare genetic disorder and Eeyore has been his "comfort for every scary crappy thing he has fought since he was 18 months old," his mother said.
by Nancy Yang

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Old picture of a sheep gets the internet bahhing

The Museum of English Rural Life had a little fun on Twitter Monday, and followers rewarded the museum with a collective hug for some comic relief in a social media season where fun is really hard to find.
by Paul Tosto

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‘Billet parents’ feel a special pain in deaths of junior hockey kids

‘Billet parents’ feel a special pain in deaths of junior hockey kids

Billet families are the bright lights in what can be an unforgiving existence in western Canada's junior hockey leagues. Their pain is surfacing now in the the days since a semitrailer ripped into a Canadian junior hockey league team bus, killing 15 people.
by Paul Tosto

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What’s on MPR News today? 4/9/18

Here are the topics and guests you'll hear today on MPR News.
by Bob Collins

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