Thanksgiving would not be the same without Dorcas Reilly. Reilly, who worked for years in the Campbell Soup kitchens, created the green bean casserole — a Thanksgiving staple on hundreds (if not thousands) of dinner tables across Minnesota. Reilly, according to the Associated Press, died last week at the age of 92 of Alzheimer’s disease Read more →
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By Chris Graves
cgraves@mpr.org • @chrisgraves • 651-290-1171Collin Martin, the 23-year-old midfielder with the Minnesota United, took to Twitter Friday to announce he is gay. He is wrapped in a Pride flag on his post and he tells his followers the team is celebrating Pride at the game on Friday. “It’s an important night for me,” he said. “I’ll be announcing for the Read more →
If you’re a reporter in the news business long enough, you’ve written stories just like the one a former Capital Gazette columnist penned about Jarrod Ramos and some trouble he got into back in 2011. Ramos is the guy who apparently felt so begrudged by the columnist’s words that he blasted through the glass door of Read more →