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Report: ISIS fighter worked at MSP airport

Report: ISIS fighter worked at MSP airport

KMSP provides a perfect example of the threat within with its report that Abdirahmaan Muhumed, the second man with Minneapolis connections to die fighting for ISIS, was close to terrorism’s weapon of choice in the U.S. He worked at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. Two former employees confirmed working with Muhumed at Delta Global Services,…
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Serge Vorobyov can’t stop throwing money

Serge Vorobyov can’t stop throwing money

Serge Vorobyov, the local guy who got arrested last winter when he tossed money in the Mall of America rotunda in an attempt to woo his estranged wife back (it didn’t work), tossed more dough from the Sky Ride at the State Fair last weekend. “It was good fun,” he tells City Page’s Aaron Rupar.…
by Bob Collins

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A response to struggling students in Duluth: more learning

If you want to hear high school students wail, tell them they’ll have to take 30 minutes every Friday to read something. The Duluth News Tribune reports on the reception East High School principal Laurie Knapp got at a student assembly yesterday when she announced the district has added 30 minutes to the academic day.…
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Execution blurs line between news and propaganda

Execution blurs line between news and propaganda

Substitute “killed” or “murdered” or “executed” for beheaded in this headline and does it have the same impact? Probably not. We’re generally more desensitized to the atrocities of war and terrorism and the Islamic extremists know that. Beheading carries its own terror. So should we be complicit in furthering their terror? Or is there an…
by Bob Collins

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Young TV news stars choose family, friends over career

We're seeing a generational change for the news media, an industry where relationships and practically everything else was sacrificed for what traditionally constituted "success" in the business.
by Bob Collins

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MN court: Warrant not needed in drunk driving fatality

The Minnesota court on Tuesday overturned a lower court ruling that tossed out the blood-drawn on Derek Stavish of Sartell, Minnesota, who was driving drunk in June 2012 and crashed his truck, killing an occupant.
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Small airport may be perfect hideout for suspect on run

Small airport may be perfect hideout for suspect on run

If Ty Hoffman is eventually to have been discovered hiding out in one for the last month, it likely wouldn't surprise a lot of pilots.
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The man who launched St. Paul’s preservation movement

The man who launched St. Paul’s preservation movement

Faricy worked on the restoration of Saint Paul's Landmark Center in the '70s, which was saved from destruction in what would've been an everlasting "what on earth were they thinking?" moment for the city.
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Woman carries mattress to protest her campus rape

Woman carries mattress to protest her campus rape

A woman at Columbia University, one of dozens of schools which allegedly did little to investigate reports of sexual assaults on campus, is starting the school year today by carrying a mattress from class to class. “I was raped in my own bed,” Emma Sulkowicz tells The Guardian. “I could have taken my pillow, but…
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Oldest flight attendant retires

Oldest flight attendant retires

The oldest flight attendant in the United States has been grounded. Bob Reardon, a St. Paul man who turned 90 in May, retired from Delta over the weekend, and, apparently, not by choice.
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