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The Super Bowl ad you won’t see

The lure of the Super Bowl ad has been fading in recent years, perhaps as the suspense of the actual game has increased. But Super Bowl ads aren't what they once were, forcing ad agencies to come up with something more clever. Now, Skittles has.
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Year’s first transgender homicide is Minnesota native

She was Christopher Steele when she was born in Minnesota. When her parents split when she was 5, she went into the foster care system and, when she was in the fifth grade, went to live with Al and Madelyn Sisson. He was a Rochester, Minn., cop.
by Bob Collins

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Brainerd coach has had enough of parents

Scott Stanfield sometimes dealt with some of society's worst when he worked as a cop. But being a boys basketball coach and dealing with some parents is "way worse," he tells the Brainerd Dispatch.
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College at 12, Ph.D at 23 for UW grad

Julia Nepper went to college when she was 12 years old because her parents looked at the education she was getting and didn't like it. She just got her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin.
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When push comes to shove, Dems unlikely to stand up for the likes of Jorge Garcia

When push comes to shove, Dems unlikely to stand up for the likes of Jorge Garcia

Jorge Garcia didn't get a say when his family brought him to the United States illegally. He was only 10. Although that's too old to qualify under the so-called DACA program, he's the new face of the deportation program that is rounding up people and sending them to a country they don't know.
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In Washington County, it takes a lot to kill polka

The Pioneer Press' Mary Divine writes that Laura Miron Mendele, who grew up going to the Withrow Ballroom in Washington County, has purchased the ballroom that closed late last year, and plans to reopen it for the polka dance in March.
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