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Player’s daughter with leukemia throws first pitch

Player’s daughter with leukemia throws first pitch

In Cleveland last night, the twin four-year-old daughters of player Mike Aviles threw out the first pitch in the Indians' game against the Yankees.
by Bob Collins

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After 50 years, couple gives up their school bus

You know who the daily heroes are in this country who never get recognition? School bus drivers.
by Bob Collins

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Can’t win for losing. Globetrotters fire Generals

What’s going on here? First, Sesame Street jettisons PBS. And now the Harlem Globetrotters are cutting ties with the Washington Generals. ESPN reports the Globetrotters are ending their relationship with the Generals, their nightly opponents in their act. That’s 63 years of tradition gone right there. “I don’t know exactly how many times we lost,…
by Bob Collins

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No money in air shows

The numbers are in from Mankato's large air show in June and they're not particularly good, even though it attracted the Air Force Thunderbirds as the signature act.
by Bob Collins

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Teague victims step forward… under pressure

A statement from the University of Minnesota today carries a disturbing piece of information about the actions of the local news media.
by Bob Collins

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When bears and drones are pals

When bears and drones are pals

MPR's Dan Gunderson today has a neat story about bears in Minnesota not being happy when drones appear. Their heart rate spiked until the drones left, proving that the bears are stressed out about drones.
by Bob Collins

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Artist gets hate mail for not making Tom Brady ‘pretty enough’

Jane Rosenberg 's assignment was to sketch the courtroom while Patriots quarterback Tom Brady complained about being suspended for cheating. Twitter misfits didn't like how she drew Brady.
by Bob Collins

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What could get more people to local parks? Beer

If all foamy ideas come from Wisconsin -- and apparently they do -- then beer gardens in public parks will head this way someday.
by Bob Collins

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Marilyn Hagerty shows us a snapshot of the real world

They don't make newspaper people like Marilyn Hagerty anymore. The Grand Forks, N.D., columnist knows how to tell the story of the soul of the communities she covers.
by Bob Collins

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Sesame Street doesn’t need PBS anymore

A day after PBS announced it would trim Sesame Street to a half hour, Sesame Workshop and HBO delivered a bombshell today -- Sesame Street will move to HBO.
by Bob Collins

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