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March 26, 2019 12:46 AM

What’s on MPR News – 3/26/19

Here are the topics, guests, and stories you'll hear today on MPR News.

by Bob Collins

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March 25, 2019 9:12 AM

Jeremy Richman tried to survive his daughter’s killing in a mass shooting. He couldn’t

In many ways, the debate over guns ended in 2012 when the nation went on about its business and changed pretty much nothing after little kids and their teachers were slaughtered in Newtown, Conn. That must have been particularly difficult for people like Jeremy Richman, who hasn’t been able to take any positives out of…

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March 25, 2019 9:00 AM

Airline passengers buy ticket to Germany, flight goes to Scotland instead

All the passengers got on the plane thinking they were going to Germany. But the paperwork submitted to the pilots said Edinburgh. So Edinburgh it was.

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March 25, 2019 8:38 AM

NewsCut Flashback: The greatest human who ever lived?

Today would be Norman Borlaug's 105th birthday. He is known by some fans as the greatest human who ever lived.

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March 25, 2019 5:02 AM

Cruise survivors may go for another ride

Among the many things on the NewsCut Bucket List is 'don't go on a cruise.'

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March 25, 2019 3:44 AM

Runners race around baseball diamond for 3 1/2 hours

Who among us hasn't gone through life asking its critical question, 'what can we do that's fun and stupid?'

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March 25, 2019 2:08 AM

Flooding brings out our best selves

From the look of things, there'll be plenty of grief accompanying the flooding around Minnesota; that's the nature of floods of course. Things go underwater, our commutes require detours and more time, possessions are lost, the mold grows in the basement and who's got time for any of this, anyway?

by Bob Collins