Bob CollinsRoyal Jordanian Airlines, one of the airlines affected by a U.S. and U.K. ban on laptops and electronic devices, wins the Internet for turning the ban into a social media campaign. Read more →
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Why would anyone think it was a raid? Because the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has Minneapolis and Hennepin County in its sights. Read more →
Audrey Marie Luke, 15, may be in Kenyon, Minn., where the town’s police chief posted a personal message that has the town pleading with her to come home. Read more →
One day you’re a valued employee; the next day you have no value when all you did was blow out a few candles. Read more →
If you’ve never had to raise your children without the benefit of the electronic gadgetry, one can understand the panic the FAA’s ban on electronics is having on parents. Read more →
Perhaps the best time to have a funeral is while we’re still alive. Read more →
Because it’s Friday, that’s why. Read more →
Exhale, Clinton, Minn., — population 433 — your cafe survives. Read more →
Someone at McDonald’s is getting fired today.
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The cyclist-driver gulf may never be bridged. Read more →
We will always drop whatever we’re doing on NewsCut when adorable comes along and though we provided an update yesterday on Robert Kelly and his family — the guy who was on the BBC when his daughter came into his home office — the adorb-o-meter was pinned again today when the family held its news conference to get the media off its back so they can get back to normalcy. Read more →
Jerilynn Huber didn’t have a prayer of succeeding in her protest, but at least she stood for something, or climbed for something. Read more →
Robert Kelly wants you to know he loves his kids and he wasn’t mad at them for making him into an Internet sensation. Read more →
Chris Newsome, of Jacksonville, Alabama, didn’t think much of the toad on his porch one evening. But when it returned the next night, he figured it could use a little dressing up. Newsome likes hats, so he made a hat for the toad.
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Apparently, locking your doors at night isn’t a big thing in Alexandria, Minn. But after the Alexandria Echo Press story about a man who drove his car off an embankment, flew over 210 feet of open water, and came to rest on the ice of Lake L’Homme Dieu, it might not be a bad idea. Read more →