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January 28, 2018 11:26 AM

Super Bowl volunteer diary part 4: Champions of check-in

Laura McCallum, MPR’s managing editor for daily news, is one of the 10,000 people volunteering during Super Bowl week. She’s documenting her experience on NewsCut. Check out part 1, part 2 and part 3. I know you’ve all been wondering (and many of you have been asking) if I got bathroom cleaning duty again. Nope!…

by Laura McCallum

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January 27, 2018 10:47 AM

Super Bowl volunteer diary part 3: My first shift

Laura McCallum, MPR’s managing editor for daily news, is one of the 10,000 people volunteering during Super Bowl week. She’ll be documenting her experience on NewsCut. Check out part 1 and part 2. Finally, more than five months after I interviewed to be one of the 10,000 Crew 52 Super Bowl volunteers it was time…

by Laura McCallum

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January 26, 2018 9:38 AM

A dying mother, a generous landlord, and the people who make our nightmares

All Carrol Amrich wanted to do a week ago Tuesday was get to Minnesota from Pueblo, Colorado to say "goodbye" to her dying mother. She didn't make it thanks to the byzantine system of air travel .

by Bob Collins

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January 26, 2018 8:37 AM

Racist taunts follow Iowa’s Storm Lake Tornadoes

The Storm Lake Tornadoes went to Spencer, Iowa last Friday to play some basketball and were taunted with racist chants, a report says. It's not the first time Storm Lake's kids have heard them. They're from one of Iowa's few schools with a student body that's mostly non-white.

by Bob Collins

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January 26, 2018 6:28 AM

Revolt? Let them eat Nutella!

Sure, the big weighty issues might be a reason for revolution. But sometimes it starts with chocolate spread.

by Bob Collins

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January 26, 2018 3:59 AM

The people who listen to those with a story to tell

Every day across America, the country becomes a little better place because investigative reporters shake off the bricks thrown by readers, viewers, and listeners who refuse to accept what they don’t want to believe, and hold accountable the powerful who corrupt decency on a daily basis.

by Bob Collins

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January 26, 2018 2:11 AM

Indiana man ‘died knowing the Blues Brothers was the best movie ever’

Terry Wayne, of DeMotte, Ind., died on Tuesday. He is survived by an obituary that makes us wish we’d known him. Terry Wayne Ward, age 71, of DeMotte, IN, escaped this mortal realm on Tuesday, January 23rd, 2018, leaving behind 32 jars of Miracle Whip, 17 boxes of Hamburger Helper and multitudes of other random…

by Bob Collins

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January 26, 2018 1:18 AM

A hug for Vikings fans

Kyndel McConchie, who lives in Columbia, S.C., says it's unfair that the violence directed toward Vikings fans at last Sunday's NFC championship game soils the 'classy team' of which she's a die-hard fan.

by Bob Collins