Bob Collins
The first fitting of a prom dress for a North Dakota teen didn’t go all that well. ‘It was pretty scratchy at first,” junior Gretchen Ivers tells the Grand Forks Herald. That’s what happens when you make a prom dress out of pop tops. Read more →
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Caleb David Duda was just 2 when he was placed in the foster home of Dave and Amanda Duda of Milwaukee. He’d been abused and neglected and even at 2, had multiple placements in foster homes. His birthparents’ terminated their rights. That was April 2014. Read more →
In Quincy, Mass., Carol Tan Wong died of lung cancer. During his eulogy for his mother, Adrian Wong said ‘she was not a smoker. Not exposed to secondhand smoke. Never worked with chemicals. She was simply unlucky.’ Then, a stranger suggested otherwise. Read more →
Sidewalks hearken back to a day in America where people walked to places, maybe even stopped to talk to neighbors. But that romanticized view has no place in America, judging from the reaction of people at a meeting Monday night.
Homeowners in Mankato hate sidewalks. Read more →
There’s probably a social science experiment to be had in one of the most frustrating parts of traveling by air: getting on the plane. Read more →
In the aftermath of last November’s election, the big TV and radio networks sent their Washington reporters out to the Midwest and South to find out about this America thing they’ve been hearing about. Because there wasn’t a reporter in the Midwest who could’ve explained what’s going on there to the rest of the country.
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Harrison Ford was nothing if not contrite when he mistakenly flew over the top of an airliner waiting to take off at John Wayne airport in Orange County, Calif., and landed on a taxiway instead.
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Delta Airlines’ social media department one-upped United Airlines’ beleagured team over yesterday’s refusal by United to allow girls with leggings on a flight. Read more →
United Airlines says it refused to allow two girls to get on a Sunday morning flight from Denver to Minneapolis because they poorly represented the airline. Read more →
From news accounts, it appears that because Jose Vasquez, of Elk Township in southwestern Minnesota is a nice guy, he’s got almost 100 cars on his land that he can’t dispose of. Read more →
A woman at the scene of this week’s terrorist attack in Westminster is finding out firsthand how fake news works. Read more →
A four-wheeler on Lake Ida, an ATV on Lake Osakis on Monday and a Polaris Ranger on Tuesday on Smith Lake.
There’s your vehicles-through-the-ice count just for this week. Read more →
In Wheaton, Illinois, a truck with 57 dogs, all of them saved from a kill shelter, rolled into a parking lot. Fifty-seven new dog families waited outside to meet their new family member. Read more →
Audrey Marie Luke is back home, hopefully with the knowledge that a lot of people care about her.
She the missing person whom Kenyon police chief Lee Sjolander urged to return home, where she hadn’t been since February. In his Facebook post this week, Sjolander relayed the story of the time he ran away.
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The general manager of the Chicago Cubs, Theo Epstein, has been named the world’s greatest leader by Forbes. Read more →