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Lessons from the kids of Detroit Lakes
Here’s today’s daily dose of sweetness, but you’ll have to wait for it. Plastic bags make lousy blindfolds. It’s unlikely, of course, that any of the kids who used them as blindfolds during a game of musical chairs as part of the Detroit Lakes schools’ Snoball week were going to die of suffocation. But some…
Hi there, visitors. Welcome to our state. Before you unpack, please understand that one of the reasons why the locals -- who love the cold, they say -- are talking about how terribly cold it is today is so that you'll think highly of our ability to ignore the cold and pretend we love it so much we dread the coming summer. Just humor us; it's a thing.
Super Bowl volunteer diary part 5: FAQ
Laura McCallum, MPR’s managing editor for daily news, is one of the 10,000 people volunteering during Super Bowl week. She’s been documenting her experience on NewsCut. Check out part 1, part 2, part 3 and part 4. I’m done! I finished my third and final volunteer shift from 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. as a…
The court ruled in the case of Tracy Thompson, who had sought an order for protection in September 2015 against her ex-husband, John Schrimsher, based largely on allegations of domestic abuse several years earlier, including being kicked, choked, knocked over, and slapped, some of which occurred while she was pregnant. Schrimsher denied the allegations.