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A homeless vet died in Saint Paul and people noticed

The efforts of Pioneer Press reporter Mara Gottfried to help find the family of a homeless vet who froze to death in a St. Paul park is the type of story to make you want to call that relative with whom you've lost touch.
by Bob Collins

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A pause to think about Target employees

A pause to think about Target employees

But yesterday's announcement is type that sends shivers down the spine of working stiffs. The good times only last so long, and any of us can be next.
by Bob Collins

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Reopening the Buddy Holly plane crash cause? Not likely

Reopening the Buddy Holly plane crash cause? Not likely

When Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson and pilot Roger Peterson died in the February 1959 plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa while enroute to Fargo, the Civil Aeronautics Board ruled the cause was pilot error and weather. Another pilot, L.J. Coon is getting some attention in the news today, telling the…
by Bob Collins

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Boston Marathon couple splits

Boston Marathon couple splits

Not every love story can have a happy ending. Rebekah Gregory, 27, and Pete DiMartino, 30, were married 10 months ago.
by Bob Collins

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Erling, Emmett, and the cure for what ails you

Erling, Emmett, and the cure for what ails you

The day might yet come when we tire of KARE 11 storyteller Boyd Huppert's tales of the friendship of 90-year-old Erling Kindem and 4-year-old Emmett Rychner. Let the record show: That day is not today.
by Bob Collins

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Honoring breast cancer efforts gets team bounced from playoffs

Honoring breast cancer efforts gets team bounced from playoffs

A Los Angeles-area high school girls basketball team has been disqualified from a postseason tournament because it wore uniforms to call attention to breast cancer research.
by Bob Collins

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Little self-defense in Minnesota gun law, report suggests

The most interesting statistic in this year's concealed carry report: There was not a single case of a gun permitted under the carry law being used for self-defense.
by Bob Collins

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