Home Inspector blogger Reuben Saltzman says it's just a matter of time until your sump pump fails, without warning, during a rainstorm, when you're asleep. Here's how to wake up to a dry house.
Sharrif Floyd joked around with his fellow Vikings defensive linemen on Wednesday, but he was still unable to join them during practice. Floyd, the former first-round pick who should be entering the prime of his career for the Vikings, is still unsure whether or not he’ll be able to play this season after complications from knee surgery in September caused nerve damage affecting his quadriceps in his right leg, a league source told the Star Tribune in March. “Fighting to stay positive,” Floyd said from the Winter Park practice fields. Читать дальше...
A massive explosion rocked a highly secure diplomatic area of Kabul on Wednesday morning, causing casualties and sending a huge plume of smoke over the Afghan capital.
In an era of autocorrect and also instant critiques, nobody is a spelling expert but everyone is a spelling judge. And spelling is at a premium Wednesday as youngsters do battle in the National Spelling Bee. With that in mind, let’s have a little spelling bee of our own. There are plenty of Minnesota sports figures over the years who have had names that are hard to spell. Let’s run through 10 of them here and see how many you can get right. I’ll even use them all in a sentence. Answers on the link at the bottom of the page. Читать дальше...
He isn’t callous, his critics are.
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Bueckers survived the final cut and is one of the 12 players named to the United States under-16 women's basketball team that will play next week in Argentina.
Local chapter ‘very concerned’ about alleged retaliation against black teacher.
We’ve reached that point in the year when you’re going to start seeing a lot of lists on sports web sites — yes, even more than usual. It’s not exactly a dead period (it never is), but things are slowing down. June will have finals and drafts. July? Close to crickets. So get used to a lot of “evergreen” content, the types of things that could run any time but are best saved for when not much actual news is being made. With that as a backdrop, some lists are better than others. And a recent list on... Читать дальше...
Miguel Sano brought a rubber snake into the dugout just before the Twins took the field against Tampa Bay for Sunday's 15 innings of aggravation.
Now the community wants to see words put into action.
The victim was a 35-year-old man from Bloomington; gunman had a permit to carry at the time of the shooting.
The man police say fatally stabbed two men who tried to shield young women from an anti-Muslim tirade on a Portland train shouted "you call it terrorism I call it patriotism!" during his first court appearance.
They express disappointment over Walker sculpture as Dakota elders weigh response.
