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1,000 Words: The volunteers
An 81-year-old Madison, Wis., man was missing after his car was found in a slough. On Monday, 75 volunteers showed up to find him. As near as we can tell, nobody cared who voted for whom.
Abby Marie Zoellmer, 37, of Mankato, had five mugs of beer and then got in her car and started driving last January. She struck and killed William Maher, 88, who had gone into the roadway to avoid the ice of the sidewalk.
If there's one thing we learned after the big tax breaks for corporations, it's that when big business sounds like it's giving a big chunk of money to the little people, the big picture provides an entirely different story.
Can’t we all just get along? No, astronaut learns
Scott Kelly has a perspective that few others have on the subject on an out-of-control political discourse. His sister-in-law, Gabby Giffords, was shot in the head just a week into her third term in Congress at the same venue in Tucson in which a federal judge was killed.
Court of Appeals rejects Brainerd’s ousting of firefighters
Brainerd, like many Minnesota communities, restructured its fire department to a paid on-call volunteer force, eliminated five full-time equipment operators, ending an arrangement that had kept someone in the fire hall 24 hours a day.