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MN judges say again: Refusing DUI test can cost license

Minnesota's implied consent law, which allows the state to revoke your driver's license if you refuse to submit to chemical testing for DUI, has survived yet another constitutional challenge.
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Saving children from ritualistic killing

Saving children from ritualistic killing

What do you do after you’ve made your fortune developing games for Playstation and other devices? For John Rowe and his friend, Lale Labuko, retirement involved stopping ritualistic killing of children. Rowe and Labuko are tackling the problem of Mingi in Ethiopia, the belief that a baby is “cursed” if it is born out of…
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Snow? Hail? It must be summer

Snow? Hail? It must be summer

It was a gorgeous day in Novosibirsk, central Russia, on Saturday when the sky started raining cold death. A freak hailstorm sent people scurrying, including — you may note — the woman in the stars-and-stripes bikini. No one was killed by the hail. Russia Today says snowdrifts piled up on the roads in the Ural…
by Bob Collins

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Pat Neshek’s road back to Minnesota

Pat Neshek’s road back to Minnesota

The Star Tribune's Phil Miller provides the must-read story of the day (so far) with his profile of Pat Neshek , the Brooklyn Park native who makes his first-ever appearance on the All Star game this week.
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Target fires security guard who turned in a shoplifter

A Target security guard in Leesburg, Va., is out of a job because he reported a shoplifter to the police. The Washington Post says Dallas Northington saw the shoplifter twice on video and says he responded the way he always does; he contacted the Leesburg police. Northington, 29 and a father of two with one…
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The pied pianist of Uptown Minneapolis

MPR’s Jay Gabler wrote yesterday about Dylan Spoering, the young Uptown boy who charmed everybody with his plan to hold a piano recital outside his home, the way others might put up a lemonade stand. The friends and neighbors in the area took it from there, whipping up support, creating a Facebook page, and trying…
by Bob Collins

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12-year-old arrested for pinching grandmother

A 12 year old girl has been charged with a felony for pinching her grandmother. The Argus Leader reports the girl, unidentified of course, is facing a charge of abuse of an elderly woman. The girl’s mother is the one that turned her in after she saw the 75-year old woman, presumably her own mother,…
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Despite deep water, drivers ignore warnings

Floods have returned to New Hope because of the rain this morning. Do you have any flooding where you are? pic.twitter.com/jMpwpnO3OU — KARE 11 (@kare11) July 11, 2014 Sometimes it’s hard to have sympathy for drivers. It’s not like we haven’t been told thousands of times not to drive through standing water because it might…
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LeBron picks Cleveland

LeBron picks Cleveland

It must kill the rest of America to admit it, but Cleveland has had a pretty good week, landing both the Republican National Convention and LeBron James. In quite a surprise, it was Sports Illustrated that released the word that has had the sports tongues wagging. In his essay today, James does not promise a…
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