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What happened to iPads Apple gave to ballplayers?

What happened to iPads Apple gave to ballplayers?

There was, you may recall, a fair amount of kvetching about the pitchers in the bullpen getting free things they could've purchased with the change from their meal money. Yesterday, the players donated 12 iPads to the Boys and Girls Club of Cleveland.
by Bob Collins

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Anonymous worker does his job, saves hundreds of lives

The next time you hear someone make one of those cheap lazy-government-worker jokes, remind them of the nameless man (so far) at Midway Airport in Chicago who single-handedly saved a couple of hundred lives this week.
by Bob Collins

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When the home-grown terrorists are white

When the home-grown terrorists are white

The only real mystery in the South Carolina massacre is why we're reluctant to call it what it is.
by Bob Collins

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Nation’s oldest bald eagle — a Minnesotan — dead at 38

Nation’s oldest bald eagle — a Minnesotan — dead at 38

If you're the dean of American bald eagles, your life should conclude more gloriously than by getting hit by a car while you're dining on a freshly-killed rabbit.
by Bob Collins

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A kid, a lost toy, and an airport that gave a rip

A kid, a lost toy, and an airport that gave a rip

When a 6-year-old boy lost a stuffed animal, Tony D'Aiuto, who runs the operations center at Tampa Airport, did what more of us should: He went to extremes to make the day a little nicer for someone having a bad day.
by Bob Collins

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Life without parole for juveniles splits MN high court

The Minnesota Supreme Court today ruled again that life without parole for juveniles is not unconstitutional for those who were convicted before 2012 -- when the U.S. Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional.
by Bob Collins

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Bicycling on I-94: The GPS made me do it

There was a time, whippersnappers, when we were able to get places on our bikes without a GPS. Sometimes we'd just follow a road in the general direction of where we wanted to go and usually we'd get there. Unlike where I grew up, this is pretty easy in the Midwest, where the roads run straight north and south and east and west, just as God intended.
by Bob Collins

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The power of a note from a kid

The power of a note from a kid

Only a picture of a puppy in need of a home can tug at the heart more than a hand-written note from a kid.
by Bob Collins

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The case of the missing ruby red slippers

The case of the missing ruby red slippers

It's been almost a decade since someone stole the ruby red slippers Judy Garland wore in Wizard of Oz from the Judy Garland Museum in Grand Rapids and a search of an iron pit in Itasca County has come up empty.
by Bob Collins

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