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• Boxer Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter dies at 76
  Carter spent 19 years in prison for three murders at a tavern in Paterson, N.J., in 1966. He was convicted alongside Artis in 1967 and again in a new trial in 1976. Carter was freed in November 1985 when his convictions were set aside after years of appeals and public advocacy.April 20, 2014
• Ohio couple married 70 years die 15 hours apart
  An Ohio couple who held hands at breakfast every morning even after 70 years of marriage have died 15 hours apart.April 19, 2014
• Tackling the opportunity gap in advertising
  Fewer than 1 percent of the nearly 80,000 advertising and promotional managers in America are African-American. Hispanics and Asian-Americans have similarly low showings.The Daily Circuit, April 18, 2014
• Chelsea Clinton says she's pregnant
  Chelsea Clinton announced Thursday that she and husband Marc Mezvinsky are expecting their first child, also a first grandchild for former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.April 18, 2014
• For Minneapolis police liaison, community trust built one handshake at a time
  Sherman Patterson brings a unique background to the work of building relationships. He's a retired soldier, a mentor to kids on the north side, and nephew of a heavyweight boxing champion. Patterson is also the recipient of a $100,000 Bush Foundation Fellowship, which he says he'll use to help keep kids away from guns.April 16, 2014
• Horse expo to miss horses because of virus
  One sure sign spring is near is the annual Minnesota Horse Expo at the State Fairgrounds. But when the expo starts later this month, it'll go on without it's star participants: the horses. That's because veterinarians are recommending horse owners in our region avoid traveling with their horses until recent a virus outbreak is over.April 16, 2014
• How to talk 'Fargo' (this subject did not flee the interview)
  There's a new "Fargo" in town -- a TV series based on the film debuted Tuesday on FX. Tony Alcantar helped the cast get the accent right. Alcantar, a dialect coach, worked with actors on set in Calgary, Alberta, including British actor Martin Freeman and Texan Allison Tolman. Listen to how he did that.April 16, 2014
• IQ2 Intelligence Squared debate about millennials and their future
  A debate from the Intelligence Squared US series. Millennials, growing up with revolutionary technology and entering adulthood in a time of recession, have recently been much maligned. Are their critics right? Is this generation uniquely coddled, narcissistic and lazy? or have we let conventional wisdom blind us to their openness to change and innovation, and optimism in the face of uncertainty?Minnesota Public Radio News Presents, April 15, 2014
• I-90 bridge will be partially closed until November
  Starting today, the westbound I-90 off-ramp to Highway 61 will close for drivers traveling west from La Crosse, Wis., to Minnesota.April 15, 2014
• Wisconsin vets saluted with B-17 ride
  Of the thousands of bomber crews who served during the war, none is still intact. Time has claimed most World War II veterans. So Chris Henry assembled one yesterday. A pilot, co-pilot, navigator, radioman, gunner, bombardier. They were all there -- all of them from Wisconsin -- for yesterday's flight.April 15, 2014
• Washington Post, Guardian share Pulitzer for Snowden-leaked NSA stories
  The Washington Post and The Guardian have Pulitzer Prizes in public service for their coverage of Edward Snowden and the NSA surveillance program.April 14, 2014
• Frostbite survivor plans return to college
  A University of Minnesota Duluth student who suffered severe frostbite after a night in subzero temperatures is now walking normally, handling everyday tasks, and planning to return to school next fall.April 13, 2014
• Could playfulness be embedded in the universe?
  Graeber's proposal is, roughly, that play provides the principle. Play is the exercise of our best powers -- to run and jump and pay attention and outsmart -- but in the interest of nothing at all. The power of play, Graeber suggests, consists precisely in the fact that it frees us, for example, from enslavement to the demands of means-end rationality and the market place.April 13, 2014
• Tribe banks on syrup for sweet relief from poverty
  The members of the Passamaquoddy tribe have looked under their feet for a bottled water plant and have turned to the sky for a wind farm. But it's the forest that will be the first to deliver as the impoverished tribe seeks to become one of the biggest maple syrup operations in Maine.April 13, 2014
• Squirrel blamed for $300K damage to Ind. building
  Officials say a wayward squirrel caused about $300,000 in damage to an eastern Indiana community center set to open in June.April 12, 2014

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