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1,000 Words: The babies

1,000 Words: The babies

The danger of the news business is it can desensitize us to the news. If you see something often enough, the shock of it wears away until it seems like something normal. When things are normal, we tend not to pay much attention to it.
by Bob Collins

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A Hitler color-by-number

A Hitler color-by-number

We're going to guess that if a picture of Hitler ends up in a children's color-by-number book, it's not an accident. Someone made a decision to put it there.
by Bob Collins

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A promise made, neighbor tries to save a little pink schoolhouse

When Lois Yess died at 91, her neighbor DeeAnn Britton, made the same promise to her that Lois had made to her father to keep the southern Minnesota building standing. Last year she bought the pink schoolhouse and has been selling items out of it to raise money to keep her promise.
by Bob Collins

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What does it take to fire a St. Paul cop?

The defense raises the obvious question: Isolated from significant discipline, what's to prevent a cop in St. Paul from doing the same thing in the future?
by Bob Collins

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Quadruplets accepted to Ivy League schools. But let’s talk about mom and dad

Quadruplets accepted to Ivy League schools. But let’s talk about mom and dad

There had to be a lot of pressure on Zachary, Aaron, Nigel, and Nick Wade of Ohio. They are quadruplets and, presumably, none of them wanted to be the one who wasn't accepted by an Ivy League school.
by Bob Collins

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A couple, a baby, and a 2,200-mile hike

A couple, a baby, and a 2,200-mile hike

If you expected Bekah and Derrick Quirin to give up on the Appalachian Trail after a few days, forget it
by Bob Collins

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MN Supreme Court overturns ruling that woman lost job because she revealed pregnancy

Nicole LaPoint argued discrimination after an orthodontist pulled a job offer to her after learning she was two months pregnant and hoped to take maternity time. The orthodontist argued the amount of time off was the concern. Justices today said it’s only discrimination under state law if LaPoint could prove she lost the job because she was pregnant.
by Bob Collins

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Young reporters show journalism’s obituary is premature

It must have been embarrassing for the school system in Pittsburg, Kansas when a group of young journalists did the job the adults who run the system should've done.
by Bob Collins

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From Motley, a Peep heads to the heavens

From Motley, a Peep heads to the heavens

The kids at Forestview Middle School's STEM team in Baxter, Minn., were getting pretty antsy to see what would happen if they launched a balloon. But bad weather through February kept it on terra firma. There was pressure involved, with the temperatures warming in lake country.
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