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Banks don’t need your money

You've probably noticed you're getting next to nothing for giving your money to your local bank, which in turn, could lend it out and get a higher interest rate than what you're getting. There's money in the middle-man business.
by Bob Collins

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Bad Lip Reading NFL video

This being Super Bowl week, we welcome back one of the better new traditions of the game -- the release of the Bad Lip Reading video of the 2015-16 NFL season.
by Bob Collins

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Mom hears her son’s beating heart inside a 4-year-old girl

Mom hears her son’s beating heart inside a 4-year-old girl

At Phoenix Children's Hospital, Heather Clark met Jordan Drake and her family. Jordan, now 4, has had six surgeries because of a congenital heart defect. Heather held a stethoscope to Jordan's chest the other day, and heard her son's beating heart.
by Bob Collins

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Yearbook photo flap settled with a bald eagle

Yearbook photo flap settled with a bald eagle

Fargo North High School's nightmare is over. Joshua Renville, the kid who wanted to pose with the flag and a gun for his yearbook photo has agreed to drop the gun.
by Bob Collins

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Donald Trump, loser

Donald Trump, loser

Give Iowans credit; they don't much like bullies. Oh, sure, they liked Donald Trump enough to give him a second-place finish but the story out of the caucuses last night isn't who won so much as who didn't.
by Bob Collins

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Small town’s music teacher may be forced to return to Canada

It took a lot of effort to find a music teacher for the Lancaster, Minn., school system. The school in the town of 335 got one applicant. Now, immigration rules are sending her back to Canada, Valley News Live reports today.
by Bob Collins

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Delta: Sorry about that flight attendant fistfight

How is it possible that flight attendants aboard a Minneapolis-bound Delta Airlines flight got into a fistfight on board the airplane and there's no video posted online?
by Bob Collins

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Automated parking ramps confounding La Crosse drivers

Some drivers are apparently frustrated that they can't get the automated pay systems to work right.
by Bob Collins

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The power of the free T-shirt

The power of the free T-shirt

When we get something for nothing, we feel as if we’re putting one over on the world.Except that often it’s just the opposite.
by Bob Collins

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Once down to a few, trumpeter swans rule in Monticello

Once down to a few, trumpeter swans rule in Monticello

We're guessing the trumpeter swans who congregate in the open, warmer water from the Monticello nuclear plant on the Mississippi River, would be just fine on their own. But a man made a promise to his dying wife.
by Bob Collins

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