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Police officer praised for not shooting kids holding toy gun
Officer Peter Casuccio, of the Columbus Ohio police, has become quite the media star in the last 24 hours because he didn't kill an 11-year-old kid holding a toy gun when he was responding to a report of young men with guns on Saturday afternoon.
Jason Lewis, the 2nd District congressman, is in a close race with DFLer Angie Craig in next month's election. So it seems unusual that Lewis got op-ed space in Monday's Star Tribune -- and Tom Emmer got similar space today -- to use to campaign against the opposition if they so choose.
Nothing much has worked so far to get the message through to the masses that climate change is real and it's going to hurt. So a group of researchers have changed their approach. Drought? Famine? Floods? It's not enough to get people interested.
Kenya’s coolest sport? It’s hockey
Here's your daily dose of sweetness. Satellite TV has brought hockey to Kenya. A doughnut company from Canada, displaying marketing genius, took care of the rest.