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Championship parade in Cleveland. Shirts optional

Championship parade in Cleveland. Shirts optional

If we didn’t know better, we’d think that Cleveland Cavalier J.R. Smith and former Minnesota Timberwolves player Mo Williams were trolling Pioneer Press columnist Joe Soucheray by going shirtless during today’s mammoth parade for the NBA champion Cleveland Cavaliers in the city by the lake. Mo Williams (also shirtless) and @kevinlove with another WWE belt…
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Only one Doolittle Raider is left

Only one Doolittle Raider is left

David Thatcher has died. He was an engineer and tail gunner on the seventh B-25 in the group. His son posted on Facebook that his father suffered a stroke on Sunday afternoon and died this morning.
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In funeral industry’s green wave, the sewage plant is the new cemetery

By today's standards of what to do with dead people, dying is really bad for the environment. Chemicals used in embalming, for example, eventually leach into the earth. Cremation pollutes the air (about 500 pounds of carbon dioxide), and there's the whole use of greenhouse gasses thing to consider.
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Chatfield, Minn., woman discovers America on solar trike

Chatfield, Minn., woman discovers America on solar trike

More than a year ago, Hanna Elshoff, 72 left Chatfield, Minn., and started pedaling a solar-powered trike around the country. She's still going, we learned today.
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Here’s what happened on Prince’s airplane

Here’s what happened on Prince’s airplane

For the first time, a passenger on board Prince's airplane is revealing what happened the night it needed to make an emergency landing in Moline, Ill., enroute to Minneapolis from Atlanta.
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Hard work and a viral story propels 54-year-old grad

Hard work and a viral story propels 54-year-old grad

Michael Vaudreuil, 54, lost it all in the economic meltdown of 2008. His business collapsed and he was out of a job and would soon be out of money if he hadn't taken a part-time gig as a janitor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts.
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Is there any way to stop scalpers from scooping up tickets from fans?

There are more important issues facing today's politicians than the corruption surrounding purchasing tickets to concerts, sporting events, and theater events. But it would be nice if it could get a little attention from time to time. Take your pick of issues: Convenience fees, handling fees, reselling policies, and -- perhaps the worst of all -- the scourge of scalpers.
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#NoWomanEver exposes everyday misogyny

BuzzFeed says it started on Saturday when a 37-year-old Atlanta woman began posting the descriptions of street harassment. But it likely could've been any woman anywhere.
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Wait, what? Supreme Court casually guts 4th Amendment

Monday's Supreme Court decision basically allows evidence in an illegal search to be used against you. It hasn't attracted much attention but that's the nature of how constitutional rights disappear.
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