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Judge: Faribault girl in sexting case can’t be both victim and criminal

A 14-year-old girl in southern Minnesota sent a boy an explicit picture of herself. He showed it to friends, so authorities tried to prosecute her under the Minnesota child pornography law even though she was the victim.
by Bob Collins

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Newspaper owners are coming for your democracy

Newspaper owners are coming for your democracy

These are tough times for the newspaper industry, tougher times for people who make their living as ink-stained wretches, and it's no picnic for readers either when the newspaper owners talk to us as if we're stupid on those occasions when they talk to their customers at all.
by Bob Collins

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What’s in a name? Plenty, when it’s ‘Hooker’

What’s in a name? Plenty, when it’s ‘Hooker’

The sign at the most-used entrance to Boston's State House wouldn't have caused generations of snickers had it simply honored Gen. Joseph Hooker by including his first name. Instead, the cradle of liberty got this.
by Bob Collins

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High school pregnancy couldn’t stop dream of being a doctor

At some point today, Shannon Haines, 29, a fourth-year medical student in Omaha, will find out where she will do her residency. That fulfills a dream she had in high school of being a doctor, a dream that collapsed -- or so she thought -- when she got pregnant in high school.
by Bob Collins

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New Prague school criticized for banning pro-gun sign during protest

New Prague school criticized for banning pro-gun sign during protest

New Prague High School is ground zero in the gun debate nationally after a video showed a student, holding a sign that said 'Guns don't kill people, people kill people,' was told he couldn't hold it during Wednesday's protest against school shootings.
by Bob Collins

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Players, fans, outraged by girlfriend-beating baseball player… after video is released

The Lancaster, Pa., Barnstormers, one of the many independent minor league teams, are patting themselves on the back for their sensitivity to domestic assault by cutting a player after police released a video showing Danry Vasquez beating up his girlfriend in August 2016 at Whataburger Field in Texas, home of the Corpus Christi Hooks baseball…
by Bob Collins

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Park Rapids student stands up by sitting down for Pledge

Teresita Diaz, 17, a junior at Park Rapids Area High School, wants you to know she's not disrespecting the flag when she sits down and quietly faces it while others recite the Pledge of Allegiance, perhaps without thinking about the words they're saying.
by Bob Collins

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Are the Twins still cheap?

Forget the "Pohlads are cheap" mantra and let yourself get excited about the coming Twins season and a payroll that keeps the squad in the middle of the MLB pack.
by Mike Moen

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