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Apple pitches in to help $1-million-a-month ballplayer

Apple pitches in to help $1-million-a-month ballplayer

Thanks to Apple, a Major League Baseball player is going to get the ball he hit for his 100th Major League homerun.
by Bob Collins

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Firefighters blast drone watching them work

Drone owner John Thompson isn't getting much sympathy since he posted this video on Facebook showing firefighters trying to shoot down his drone.
by Bob Collins

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After fan is hit by bat, calls to end ‘baseball rule’

After fan is hit by bat, calls to end ‘baseball rule’

'The Baseball Rule is ripe for change,' Martin Healy, head of the Massachusetts Bar Association, said. 'The immunity the baseball rule has provided to baseball has to be tossed out.'
by Bob Collins

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A ‘hoax within a hoax within a secret’

You're going to want to sit down for this. Not everything you read online is true.
by Bob Collins

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Man misses birth of son, sues Fergus Falls cops

At least in Fergus Falls, pleading with a police officer who stopped you that you're on your way to the hospital because your wife is in labor won't work.
by Bob Collins

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Navy vet to swim length of Mississippi River

Long-time readers of NewsCut know we have a particular fondness for those who challenge themselves on long-distance endeavors. We have a new addition.
by Bob Collins

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The Bystander Effect

When people are needed to pitch in and save lives, why do some stand back and take pictures?
by Bob Collins

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Photographing the wounds of war

Photographing the wounds of war

White House photographer Pete Souza, who is a great storyteller visually and with words, has today's must read blog post.
by Bob Collins

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Lawsuits’ lesson to reporters: Slow down and get it right

Ryan Larson, the man wrongly accused in the November 2012 killing of Cold Spring police officer Tom Decker, is suing more news media organizations.
by Bob Collins

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Rochester high school tennis dream ends

Century Senior High School had hoped to ride to a title on the shirt-tails of the first girl ever to play in the boy's tournament, but Jessie Aney ran into a problem in her match yesterday on the U of M campus.
by Bob Collins

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