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North Dakota girl bullied to death

A 12-year-old girl took her own life in Bismarck, N.D., on Saturday. Her obituary didn't hold anything back.
by Bob Collins

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What’s on MPR News today? 4/4/18

What’s on MPR News today? 4/4/18

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

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A cat from Mankato befriends a bullied boy in Oklahoma

A cat from Mankato befriends a bullied boy in Oklahoma

Madden Humphreys was born with a bilateral cleft lip and palate. He also has complete heterochromia iridum, which gives him two different colored eyes. That makes him a target for the most vicious animal on earth: kids at school.
by Bob Collins

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The singing grocery store worker gets his big break

The singing grocery store worker gets his big break

Guilherme Assuncao became something of a big deal at the grocery store where he works in Watertown, Mass., in December, when he agreed to stand in for a sound check in advance of a concert the store was hosting the next day. Who knew 'just some guy' in a grocery store could sing?
by Bob Collins

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Singing Mayo docs meet Ellen

Singing Mayo docs meet Ellen

In the buttoned-down world of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Elvis Francois and William Robinson are finally getting the payoff from their years of studying and the rigorous and exhausting pace of being orthopedic surgery residents: they got to meet Ellen.
by Bob Collins

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Augusta National cracks down on dumb things golf fans shout

Yelling 'dilly dilly', which apparently is a thing in golf now, will get you tossed out of The Masters golf tournament at Augusta National later this week. Good. Can we get 'get in the hole!' added to the list?
by Bob Collins

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This is why police shouldn’t be allowed to shut off body cameras

This is why police shouldn’t be allowed to shut off body cameras

What separates the police of Asheville, N.C., from some of the gendarmes in the rest of the country is they don't shut off their body cameras when it hits the fan.
by Bob Collins

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Why, yes, playing the flute is brain surgery

Why, yes, playing the flute is brain surgery

If not for science, what would we do for a daily reminder of the power of education, research and the human capacity for greatness?
by Bob Collins

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Family left behind in father’s suicide pleads with others to ask for help

Caelan Johnson, 21, of Baxter, Minn., wants people who might be thinking of taking their own life to think about her and the rest of her family, who say they have nothing but questions after Tom Johnson, her father, shot himself to death in January.
by Bob Collins

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