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Business is picking up for people who raise sunken vehicles

A four-wheeler on Lake Ida, an ATV on Lake Osakis on Monday and a Polaris Ranger on Tuesday on Smith Lake. There's your vehicles-through-the-ice count just for this week.
by Bob Collins

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Looks like you need 15 minutes of dogs and puppies

Looks like you need 15 minutes of dogs and puppies

In Wheaton, Illinois, a truck with 57 dogs, all of them saved from a kill shelter, rolled into a parking lot. Fifty-seven new dog families waited outside to meet their new family member.
by Bob Collins

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Missing teen returning home

Audrey Marie Luke is back home, hopefully with the knowledge that a lot of people care about her. She the missing person whom Kenyon police chief Lee Sjolander urged to return home, where she hadn't been since February. In his Facebook post this week, Sjolander relayed the story of the time he ran away.
by Bob Collins

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The world’s greatest leader runs a baseball team

The world’s greatest leader runs a baseball team

The general manager of the Chicago Cubs, Theo Epstein, has been named the world's greatest leader by Forbes.
by Bob Collins

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Airline trolls U.S. electronics ban

Royal Jordanian Airlines, one of the airlines affected by a U.S. and U.K. ban on laptops and electronic devices, wins the Internet for turning the ban into a social media campaign.
by Bob Collins

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NY man killed for being black

NY man killed for being black

Timothy Caughman, an Army veteran, was pretty proud of himself on Election Day, getting up early to stand in a fairly long line for the privilege of voting. God bless America. Mr. Caughman is dead because he's black.
by Bob Collins

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Bob Dylan speaks. Sort of

Maybe it's just as well he skipped the Nobel ceremony. He didn't say much.
by Bob Collins

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Former transportation commissioner: No reason for rural resentment

Former Minnesota transportation commissioner Elwyn Tinklenberg is blowing up one of the most widely-held assertions in Minnesota today: that the transportation issue pits the Twin Cities metro against people in rural Minnesota.
by Bob Collins

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In denying health care for the vulnerable, why are we smiling?

In denying health care for the vulnerable, why are we smiling?

Maybe cutting health care for the mentally ill, the elderly, and the disabled is simply the price of freedom, a price someone else will bear so that we may enjoy its benefits.
by Bob Collins

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Champlin player gets to live every kid’s last-second dream

Champlin player gets to live every kid’s last-second dream

The only way today's state basketball tournament quarterfinal between Chaska and Champlin could have been any better is if Chaska had won.
by Bob Collins

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