Mary Coleman-Hernandez,o was with her family at the Milwaukee Air and Water Show last weekend when she took her wedding ring off at a park to put sunscreen on her daughter. Then she got distracted by kids and airplanes, forgot about the ring and when the family packed up to move to a better spot to watch things, she shook the blanket off and away they went.
Goodbye, wedding ring.
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Apparently, Eden Prairie can be pretty boring for deer and turkeys to spend an afternoon doing deer and turkey things by themselves.
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Because sometimes, newspeople need to show you people having a good day, that’s why. Read more →
It happened three weeks ago, The Guardian says of its video, which it’s calling exclusive and is indicative of the worldwide attention her death at the hands of Minneapolis police on Saturday night has garnered. Read more →
This is Storm. Storm is a good dog, or, as his owner, Mark Freeley, says, ‘the world’s best dog.’ No pressure, Storm. Read more →
Last week, many of NPR’s most well-known names pulled the curtain on life at the public radio institution, revealing poor morale among newspeople.
With the new deal, however, silence about what’s in it is the order of the day. Read more →
In 2012, Greg Thomas, of Montgomery, Minn., got plenty of national attention because he started fixing up a decayed country church while undergoing treatment for cancer. Read more →
The exodus of refugees from the United States was well documented last winter after several from Minneapolis nearly froze when they were dropped off near the border and told to walk.
The two men — one Somali and one Kenyan — stopped in Minneapolis only long enough to observe Ramadan, they told the CBC.
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There were lots of pretty colors on the La Crosse radar on Tuesday night when storms moved through the area.
So you might have missed the blues and greens along the Mississippi River. A mayfly hatch. Read more →
Todd Waters, 69, has died, or, as hoboes say, ‘he caught the Westbound.’ Waters was a hobo who proudly noted in 2012 that he’s been arrested about 70 times jumping railroad cars out of St. Paul for parts unknown and known. He was also a millionaire.
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More than 14,000 people in British Columbia have fled their homes because of wildfires.
Sally Aitken and her husband, Jack, of Vancouver, were at their summer home waiting things out when the power went out.
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It took less than 24 hours for a ring found in Detroit Lakes to find its owner in Colorado. Read more →
The labor lines are being drawn in Michigan where goats are being employed to eat poison ivy on the campus of Western Michigan University and AFSCME is not happy.
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Jack Bohmert, 82, of Oak Park Heights, entered hospice two weeks ago and created a bucket list of things he wanted to accomplish before he goes.
At the top of the list was a ride across the new St. Croix River bridge, which doesn’t open until next month. Read more →
Last evening, Eric Saathoff, a teacher who lives in the Payne-Phalen neighborhood, demonstrated what he calls ‘the pedestrian experience’ on St. Paul’s Maryland Avenue. It could’ve been anywhere in the city, however. It was hard crossing the four-lane section of the road. It wouldn’t take much to get killed. Read more →
Bob Collins