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Another Minnesota Wild ‘enforcer’ falls to substance abuse

Another Minnesota Wild ‘enforcer’ falls to substance abuse

Matt Johnson, a former captain of the Minnesota Wild, has fallen into 'a dark place,' his mother tells TSN, the Canadian sports network. He's addicted. She and her husband haven't seen him in a decade. They hear he's homeless in Santa Monica, Calif. The $6 million he made playing in the NHL is gone.
by Bob Collins

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For adverts, it’s a very British Christmas

For adverts, it’s a very British Christmas

This year's ads are again dominated by firms in the UK. The ads are better and richer there for some reason. Do we Americans not have the ability to imagine that a carrot would take a bullet -- the role is played by a pea -- for another carrot?
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Meet the dog protecting your flight from a bird strike

Meet the dog protecting your flight from a bird strike

Because there isn't a dog story that can't provide a human pick-me-up when we could use one, that's why. So, here's to Piper of Traverse City, Mich.
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This is how you find out you’re an Ivy Leaguer at 16

Ayrton Little, 16, Opelousas, La., just kept hitting 'refresh' this week, waiting for word on whether he was accepted to Harvard under the university's early acceptance program.
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Maybe now attention can turn to children’s health care

Maybe now attention can turn to children’s health care

Lost amid all the focus on sexual harassment, Roy Moore, and the presidential tweets of the day is the fact that the Children's Health Insurance Program will run out of money in February, sooner in some states. The program was created two decades ago to ensure health care for kids whose parents don't have a lot of money, yet make too much money to qualify for Medicaid.
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Man loses car in St. Paul ramp. For a week

Man loses car in St. Paul ramp. For a week

If you've never been in the position an 80-year-old Amery, Wis., man was in earlier this month, trust me, you will be someday. Let's hope by then someone in downtown St. Paul will notice that you've been looking for your car for five hours and give you a hand.
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Newspaper editorial: Trump unfit to serve

USA Today isn't exactly the official paper of bomb-throwing Socialists. Neither does it have the journalistic heft of the Washington Post or New York Times. So there's plenty of reasons for those who want to ignore its editorial today to ignore it, if they so choose.
by Bob Collins

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What’s on MPR News today? 12/13/17

Here's a list of the topics and guests you'll hear today on MPR News.
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What’s on MPR News today? 12/12/17

Here's a list of topics and guests appearing on MPR News programming today.
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Coming soon: a school shooting

Coming soon: a school shooting

The normalization of school shootings has made it difficult for those fighting them to get their message to rise above the din of the daily news. One shooting last week in New Mexico barely registered a blip in the news cycle. Five years ago Thursday, the nation's shock reached its zenith on the subject when 20 children between 6 and 7 years old and six adults were killed at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT.
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