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A Doolittle Raider gets a lift

A Doolittle Raider gets a lift

Those of us who spend any time around South St. Paul often wonder what it must have been like to try to launch a B-25 from a World War II aircraft carrier as the Doolittle Raiders tried to do in April 1942. Our imagination is enhanced by the fact “Miss Mitchell,” a B-25 operated by…
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Vacation

Vacation

Starting today I am on vacation. And by “on vacation,” I mean today I’m co-hosting The Current’s morning show with Mary Lucia, which is a pretty easy way to spend the last work day of the week. So there’s no posting by me today. Next week I’m off to Oshkosh for the annual air show.…
by Bob Collins

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Twins cancel Knoblauch honor

Here's Knoblauch's mug shot from when he was arrested yesterday after allegedly beating his wife in front of family. pic.twitter.com/XQL5zXcQ06 — Jace Larson KPRC (@jacelarson) July 24, 2014 The Minnesota Twins have decided to cancel their hall of fame induction of former secondbaseman Chuck Knoblauch. The only question is why they intended to honor him…
by Bob Collins

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Video: Iceberg tourism carries unexpected risks

Video: Iceberg tourism carries unexpected risks

Stay away from collapsing icebergs. That's the obvious lesson from this video posted this morning by a couple in Newfoundland.
by Bob Collins

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Timewasters: The ‘drone’ map

Timewasters: The ‘drone’ map

For minutes of cubicle fun, today’s recommendation goes to Don’t Fly Drones Here, a website that shows where you can fly your quadcopter, to be more accurate in terms. Take the Minneapolis Saint Paul area, for example. As colleague, Scott Olstad points out, he could fly his quadcopter over NE Minneapolis, but not over Saint…
by Bob Collins

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Happy? You must be from Rochester

Happy? You must be from Rochester

Rochester is the Minnesota city is the only metropolitan area in the north to make the top-10 list of happiest cities.
by Bob Collins

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A Saint Paul couple’s ‘magic parenting formula’

If there is such a thing as a “magical parenting formula,” perhaps Kou Moua and Zaaj Thao know it. The Pioneer Press profiles the couple, who came here years ago unable to even speak English, have the two most recent valedictorians at Saint Paul’s Johnson High School, and two younger children are in the running…
by Bob Collins

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A war is visible from space

A war is visible from space

An astronaut's camera captures death, not tranquility, over Earth.
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