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August 19, 2013 2:05 AM

5 x 8: What’s so special about where you live?

Visiting the future of America, Ernie and Weldon's reunion, from tee to shining tee, the price of being a Good Samaritan, and the boss the rest of us want.

by Bob Collins

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August 16, 2013 11:37 AM

Mayo says: Drop that fourth coffee!

My youthful indiscretion with coffee might as well be part of my epitaph.

by Paul Tosto

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August 16, 2013 7:30 AM

Ex-reporter leaves website to explain his life, and death

Former Kansas City Star sports reporter and SportsInReview.com editor Martin Manley shot himself in front of a police station yesterday morning. He also left a whole website explaining his actions.

by Nate Minor

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August 16, 2013 5:02 AM

Chicago’s gun violence and the damage done

You'll never see a more detailed and intimate visual report on Chicago's gun violence problem than in the Tribune's "Under the Gun" series.

by Nate Minor

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August 16, 2013 2:33 AM

5 x 8: Where are the parents?

Finding fault, more on the NPR ombudsman controversy, Jane takes more steps after the Marathon bombing, the anti-fracking nuns, and those darned hybrids.

by Bob Collins

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August 15, 2013 9:20 AM

Inside the Ku Klux Klan

Slate has posted a brutally intimate photo essay of the Ku Klux Klanby photographer Anthony Karen.

by Nate Minor

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August 15, 2013 7:31 AM

Canterbury Park passes on Great Bull Run

We will not be running with the bulls in Shakopee.

by Nate Minor

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August 15, 2013 4:55 AM

Minn. Supreme Court: Bars can’t balance the till from tips

More than 750 ex-nightclub employees are entitled to damages from their former employers for being forced to make up cash register shortages from their tips, the Minnesota Supreme Court has ruled. The high court’s ruling reverses the state Court of Appeals, which ruled in favor of now-closed party bars Drink and Spin Night Club. Minnesota…

by Nate Minor

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August 15, 2013 2:03 AM

5 x 8: Uncivil discourse civilly discussed

So why don't you comment... really? Plus: the mystery of the amoeba, the difference between behavior and free speech, death of a Saint Paul neighborhood, and a pitch for Andre at Target Field.

by Bob Collins