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In MN high school sports, the kids are alright

With Saturday's championship games in high school basketball, the winter high school sports season and tournament season is over.
by Bob Collins

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Video: Dubai jet crash

It is, of course, way too early to know the cause of the crash of a Dubai airliner in Russia last night, but the final moments of the flight will provide some information. The flight recorders have been recovered and it shouldn't be too difficult for investigators to come up with a theory pretty quickly.
by Bob Collins

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How a poor drifter won your right to an attorney

Fifty-three years ago today, a poor man who had been charged with breaking into a pool hall had his conviction overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court. Clarence Earl Gideon didn't have a lawyer when he was tried.
by Bob Collins

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A college player schools a sportswriter on rebounding

People call it March Madness, but one supposes for players who have to endure probing questions from sportswriters, it's March Idiocy.
by Bob Collins

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Pentagon illegally withholding money from wounded soldiers

It probably shouldn't take an act of Congress to get the U.S. Government to stop illegally taking money from wounded soldiers, but apparently it's going to.
by Bob Collins

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Tales from the bus

I'm a sucker for stories from the bus, usually tweets from people in real-time, trying to get somewhere on a Metro Transit vehicle.
by Bob Collins

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Wisconsin teen fights PTSD with jars of coins

Wisconsin teen fights PTSD with jars of coins

Hayley Orlowski is full of hope that she can do something about the number of military veterans who take their own life every day,
by Bob Collins

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Men drop to their knees to ask Trudeau to run for president

So this is what it's come to, eh? Americans dropping to their knees to beg the leader of another country to run for president of the United States.
by Bob Collins

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NPR steps back from the future

NPR, which was the one of the first major media companies to embrace podcasting, now seems afraid of it.
by Bob Collins

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