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Woman in Fargo confrontation loses job

Woman in Fargo confrontation loses job

The woman who was filmed in a tirade against three Somali women in a Fargo parking lot is going to be fired from her accounting job, the Fargo Forum reports.
by Bob Collins

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First pitcher in men’s league, Ila Borders returns to Duluth

First pitcher in men’s league, Ila Borders returns to Duluth

Surely on a list of the most interesting people who ever landed in flyover country, Ila Borders must rank pretty high. She was one of the first women on a professional baseball team (women played in the Negro Leagues) when she signed with the St. Paul Saints in '97.
by Bob Collins

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The disappearing city golf courses

The disappearing city golf courses

Golf’s decline is illustrated this week with word that two urban golf courses are on death’s doorstep. The Minneapolis Parks Board will vote next month on a plan that to close the Hiawatha golf course because of continuing costs of pumping groundwater will likely curtail 18-hole golf at Hiawatha Golf Course. And the Pioneer Press…
by Bob Collins

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Analyzing East Metro’s ‘Walmart effect’ on crime

Analyzing East Metro’s ‘Walmart effect’ on crime

Open a Walmart in town, see a spike in crime. That's the upshot of an analysis by the Woodbury Bulletin and Rivertown Media, which analyzed police calls in six cities in the east metro and found a disproportionate response to Walmart compared to other stores, such as Target.
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Who stole a 4-year-old girl’s saddle?

Who stole a 4-year-old girl’s saddle?

Sadly, there is no shortage of "people are horrible" entrants today, but we've settled on whomever was driving a maroon van in rural Princeton, Minn., a week ago, stopping just long enough to steal a saddle from a 4-year-old girl. It was given to her as a birthday present.
by Bob Collins

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Legislature’s different approach to drug possession divides Supreme Court

It's a curious reality of the Minnesota Supreme Court that you don't often see the 'Pawlenty wing' and the 'Dayton wing' of the court lined up against each other, but two cases today highlighted a sharp division over sentences handed to drug offenders since a change in the state's sentencing guidelines.
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Weird triple play is first since Twins did it 11 years ago

Weird triple play is first since Twins did it 11 years ago

A triple play is one of the more rare events in baseball and a triple play in which a run scores must surely be among the most impossible feats. Last night, however, Todd Frazier of the dastardly New York Yankees accomplished it.
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Anna Gibbs preserved Ojibwe language and culture

Anna Gibbs preserved Ojibwe language and culture

Anna Gibbs has died and if you know any history of the Ojibwe in Minnesota, there's a fair chance Anna Gibbs had something to do with it. The Bemidji Pioneer reports she died of liver cancer on Sunday at 72.
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A Girl Scout home for the homeless

A Girl Scout home for the homeless

There are 28 girls in Troop 6000. They're all homeless. It's the first-ever Girl Scout troop for girls who are homeless, reporter Jacob Pinter reports.
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