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With time running out, a soccer mom sees one more game

With time running out, a soccer mom sees one more game

On Saturday, Lauren Turner and Indianapolis' Brebeuf Prep girls soccer team played for a state title. And Lauren Turner's mom got to watch her daughter, the goalie. Stephanie Turner was given just days to live two weeks ago.
by Bob Collins

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Views shift as heroin addiction goes white, suburban

Views shift as heroin addiction goes white, suburban

Last night's 60 Minutes report on heroin was certainly an eye-opener in an area of the country that often feels it's insulated from many ills: the suburbs.
by Bob Collins

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Mary’s back, and the world’s a better place

Mary Lucia is coming back to The Current after more than six months of trying to put a stalker where he belonged.
by Bob Collins

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Welcome back, Pillsbury sign

Here's the immediate payoff to turning back the clocks: We get to see the iconic Pillsbury sign in Minneapolis an hour earlier.
by Bob Collins

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Whiteness of state workforce targeted

Whiteness of state workforce targeted

Gov. Mark Dayton is promising to remake the face of Minnesota state government, saying it's too white.
by Bob Collins

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‘The Joggler’ takes Manhattan

Is there any other sport besides running marathons where winning isn't a goal? We have a special place in our NewsCut heart for people who run 26 miles with nothing but the intention to have a blast along the way.
by Bob Collins

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Reinstated East Grand Forks teacher speaks out

An East Grand Forks teacher who was suspended for criticizing Somalis who don't show up for their English-as-a-second-language (ESL) classes says he wrote his letter to administrators to 'brainstorm' ways to teach the class.
by Bob Collins

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Registration of drones more ‘show’ than ‘substance’

It's a silly notion, however, that a pilot would be able to read a registration number on a drone; I was too busy to try to read the "N-number" on the little Cessna filling my windshield, and those letters are as high as a drone is wide.
by Bob Collins

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October’s Top 10

October’s Top 10

NewsCut set a record for web traffic in October, although -- when we stop to think about it -- it wasn't really a month for earth-shattering news. But interesting stories don't need to destroy earth. Here are the ones you selected (in descending order) this month:
by Bob Collins

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Would-be fight prevented by cop dance-off

Would-be fight prevented by cop dance-off

There's been another confrontation on the mean streets of Washington, D.C., between a police officer and the public. And a dance-off settled it.
by Bob Collins

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