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Archives for June 2015
At least in Fergus Falls, pleading with a police officer who stopped you that you’re on your way to the hospital because your wife is in labor won’t work. Read more →
Long-time readers of NewsCut know we have a particular fondness for those who challenge themselves on long-distance endeavors. We have a new addition. Read more →
When people are needed to pitch in and save lives, why do some stand back and take pictures? Read more →
White House photographer Pete Souza, who is a great storyteller visually and with words, has today’s must read blog post. Read more →
Ryan Larson, the man wrongly accused in the November 2012 killing of Cold Spring police officer Tom Decker, is suing more news media organizations. Read more →
Century Senior High School had hoped to ride to a title on the shirt-tails of the first girl ever to play in the boy’s tournament, but Jessie Aney ran into a problem in her match yesterday on the U of M campus. Read more →
Last year, the remnants of a World War II airplane were found in a boneyard in Wisconsin.
The Douglas C-47, originally built in Wisconsin, was on its way to being turned into a more modern turboprop airplane. The Oshkosh company that owned it didn’t know its lineage.
If that had happened, a significant piece of U.S. history would have been lost. Read more →
With the Minnesota Twins in Boston to face the Red Sox yesterday, it was the perfect time for Eden Stone of West Roxbury, Mass., to meet Paula Kelly of St. Paul.
Next Tuesday they’ll meet each other again — inside Boston’s Beth Israel Hospital when Eden will get one of Paula’s kidneys. Read more →
Here’s another entry in our occasional series, ‘Why Doesn’t This Ever Happen to Me at the Airport?’ Read more →
The Austin American Statesman reminds us that a life well lived can consist of running from a subpoena, a schoolteacher named Fancy, and integrating the record store business in a Texas town. Mary Dodd Stalling, 91, died peacefully on May 30, 2015. Born November 21, 1923, she was adopted into the Dodd family and raised Read more →
A judge in Grand Rapids, Minn., has ruled that if someone else’s garage sits partially on your property, it’s OK to saw it in half. Read more →
A man in Minneapolis and another in Los Angeles pulled together nuggets of public information to shine a light on those who operate in the darkness. It’s a great story. Read more →
The Minnesota Broadcasting Hall of Fame, in which he was installed as a charter member, described Kraehling as “one of Minnesota’s best known and best loved television personalities.” Read more →
Anyone with a loved one with mental illness will recognize the pain that Sedaris tenderly describes. Read more →