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July 24, 2017 2:01 AM

The pig races of Butter Days

It's true, getting up and schlepping off to work on a Monday is no fun. But this video from the Alexandria Echo Press of coverage of the Butter Days Festival in Miller, Minn., contains another truism: it beats being a pig.

by Bob Collins

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July 23, 2017 3:57 PM

1,000 Words: Police easily startled

Near University and Snelling in St. Paul, a new kind of graffiti appeared after last week's killing of a woman by a police officer who was reportedly startled by a loud noise.

by Bob Collins

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July 21, 2017 2:10 AM

Take infants to the wilderness, couple says. Here’s why

Maura and Bobby Marko are the type of parents who can make you think you raised your kids wrong. Or maybe you didn't make many concessions in your life when kids came along and maybe you didn't listen to the people who told you that you couldn't do things because you have kids now, and maybe you, too, did the things with your kids the Marko family does.

by Bob Collins

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July 20, 2017 8:49 AM

A need to do the right thing finds the ring

Mary Coleman-Hernandez,o was with her family at the Milwaukee Air and Water Show last weekend when she took her wedding ring off at a park to put sunscreen on her daughter. Then she got distracted by kids and airplanes, forgot about the ring and when the family packed up to move to a better spot to watch things, she shook the blanket off and away they went. Goodbye, wedding ring. Hello, internet.

by Bob Collins

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July 20, 2017 7:42 AM

Hey buddy! Can you spare a hockey program?

College sports is awash in money but most of it is lavished on men's programs. The women? It's the tin cup, at least for women's hockey.

by Bob Collins

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July 20, 2017 5:25 AM

When a reporter tries to hit against a MN high school softball pitcher

Oh, you think you can hit a Minnesota high school girl's fast-pitch softball delivery? You probably can't and if you do, it's probably luck.

by Bob Collins

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July 20, 2017 4:07 AM

Vandals, cows threaten man’s one-person effort to honor paupers

At the Poor Farm Cemetery, Bob Riepe, of Perham, Minn., has thought about giving up on his one-man effort to keep up the cemetery near where the Otter Tail Poor Farm once stood. It operated from 1882 to 1936 and was abandoned until Riepe, an author, found a person he was doing research on was buried there somewhere.

by Bob Collins

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July 20, 2017 2:46 AM

How Australia sees us

In normal times, the United States can do worse than having Minnesota portrayed as the image of America. But these are not normal times, thanks to a cop who shot an innocent woman -- an Aussie -- in a Minneapolis alley on Saturday night.

by Bob Collins

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July 20, 2017 1:49 AM

Twin Cities media icon Bill Diehl dies at 91

He made his name covering entertainment for the Pioneer Press for 53 years, changing the way pop culture was covered around here. He was the host of rock 'n' roll in Minnesota.

by Bob Collins