Miles Scott, 5, the kid who was thrown an all-day celebration last year as part of a Make A Wish dream, threw out the first pitch today for the San Francisco Giants, arriving in the Batmobile and then getting an escort to the mound while the crowd chanted, ‘Let’s Go, Batkid!’
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Ironically the logo, meant to show employers how much talent is available in the city, hired a Minneapolis firm to design the logo. Read more →
A giant snowman in Gilman, Minn., is showing its age and is dying a hot death. Read more →
The family of Robert Lucier of Windsor, Ontario memorialized their dad the only way they knew how last Friday afternoon: by taking in a Detroit Tigers baseball game. Read more →
Journalists are often challenged to find just the right word for their news stories. Pity the poor reporter for Reuters; he could only come up with ‘dysfunctional’ to describe a justice system in which a 9-month-old baby can be charged with murder.
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The rescue of a couple at sea with their two young children has led to another storm : criticism that they had no business putting their children at risk. Read more →
The Twins aren’t a good team. Who to blame for this? Where to start? Read more →
What were you doing in the 8th grade?
Cole Willis, 14, has already selected his college. He wants to go to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and become an engineer. Now he’s moved on to figure out how to pay for it; it’ll cost about $59,000 a year in 2014 dollars. Read more →
Dick and Rick Hoyt will run their final Boston Marathon together in two weeks, ending one of the annual inspirational stories we still have in sports.
They never made it to the finish line last year; the bombs went off before they got there.
They’ll run this year to honor the victims of last year’s terrorist attack.
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With his wife, Amy, about to be sprung from prison months early for her criminal vehicular homicide conviction, former Viking Joe Senser is still refusing to accept what a jury determined only a little more than two years ago: His wife killed a man and then drove away without stopping. Read more →
There are a couple of competing ways to look at this graphic, from a survey asking people in the United States to indicate where Ukraine is. One is, ‘Wow, are people ever ignorant.’ The other is: ‘Wow, Americans got it right a lot of the time.’ Read more →
A car is burning and you know it has a tank full of gasoline. Do you approach it? Read more →
An artist collective creates a large images to reach the hearts of distant drone operators. Read more →
Today, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the case of a New Mexico photographer who refused the job of photographing a same-sex commitment ceremony. You may recall in the Legislature’s debate about same-sex marriage, the mythical wedding photographer who would be forced to take pictures against her will was a common theme.
Elaine Huguenin is that photographer and her case is the first to reach the Supreme Court, which wanted nothing to do with it. It rejected the case without comment. Read more →
For the second time, the Minnesota Court of Appeals has overturned the conviction of a St. Paul priest and ordered a new trial on charges he took advantage of a vulnerable woman he was counseling. Read more →
Bob Collins