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NFL player scores touchdown hours after death of baby

This looked like your basic NFL touchdown yesterday. A player makes a decent catch, runs it to the end zone and is mobbed by happy teammates. Nice. There was more to the story. A lot more.
by Bob Collins

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Report: Right-wing militia groups threaten civil war

If ISIS can find an army of recruits using the power of social media, United Patriots of Minnesota 3% shouldn't have much trouble, either. There are plenty of people around itching for a civil war.
by Bob Collins

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A Super Bowl volunteer diary

A Super Bowl volunteer diary

Laura McCallum, MPR's Managing Editor of Daily News, is one of the 10,000 people volunteering to greet visitors during Super Bowl week this winter. She'll be documenting her experience periodically on NewsCut. Here's her first dispatch.
by Bob Collins

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Super Bowl volunteers are soft targets for the haters

Super Bowl volunteers are soft targets for the haters

Yesterday afternoon, thousands of volunteers for the upcoming Super Bowl week attended their training on how to put the state's best foot forward for visitors to our fair state, many convinced that we're just nicer and more polite than people in the rest of the country.
by Bob Collins

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1,000 Words: The homeless

1,000 Words: The homeless

Today's 1,000 Words comes with words. It's the voice of Jae Hong, a photographer for the Associated Press, whose assignment was to document the homeless crisis in the West.
by Bob Collins

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Theft of the Blog: The caretaker of wayward souls

Theft of the Blog: The caretaker of wayward souls

'I want to tell you about my grandmother Charlotte, or as her friends called her, Chuck. Chuck was an Army nurse during World War II. She was trained in physical therapy and stationed in Belgium until the end of the war. '
by Bob Collins

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Theft of the Blog: The student leaders

Theft of the Blog: The student leaders

Each year Macalester College’s Residential Life team navigates a two-week intensive training for the student staff (Resident Assistants or RAs). Throughout training, we hold time and space to unpack different social identities, converse about what it means to be a social justice educator, and working with students navigating different academic and health-related concerns.
by Bob Collins

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Theft of the Blog: The flat tire

Theft of the Blog: The flat tire

'In a rural area outside of Arcadia, Florida, my partner and I ended up on a winding country road with a flat tire on the rental car we were driving. We pulled on to the shoulder (such as it was) and got out of the car. My partner, Bob, got the jack and spare out of the trunk and I started to call the Red Cross transportation coordinator volunteer to let him know what had happened.'
by Bob Collins

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The people who help a drowning deer

The people who help a drowning deer

Without someone to give a rip, this buck, stuck in the Gull River would be a goner. That's where Eric Sullivan, a DNR conservation officer, comes in.
by Bob Collins

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