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hotdish.gifWhat are the odds Minneapolis would be the nexus of two of the summer's biggest stories?

First, the I-35W bridge collapses over the Mississippi... now a United States Senator pleads guilty to soliciting gay sex in a Minneapolis airport bathroom.

All this from the state that gave us >> Continue reading: Shout out to my homie upstream.






N4I producer Steve Perron found a new friend while out researching a story this morning.

Lobo the llama tried to lay one on him.

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Hi, everybody.

It's time for a look in the N4I mailbag... where we give you snippets of viewer messages that have recently appeared in our e-mail.

One viewer wanted to know why newspapers make people pay to print a death notice. He writes:

It seems to me that obituaries are actually news and shouldn't cost nearly that much, or is it because they know people want ...




I always loved Drew Carey as the sardonic comic behind gems like the book "Dirty Jokes and Beer" and the intelligent yet smart-alecky " >> Continue reading: Can Carey carry Barker's show?




I love my iPhone.

It's everything Apple promised and, on occasions, a little bit more.

For some iPhoners, it turned out to be a lot more than they expected... when the monthly bill showed up in the mail.

Because AT&T itemizes every call, text message and data transfer, some heavy users' phone bills ran into the hundreds of pages.

Here's a YouTube video posted by a comely young iPhone user whose bill topped 300 p...




hunter.gifFolks in Illinois will not be able to bag a moose with a click of the mouse.

Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevic signed legislation Monday outlawing the practice of internet hunting.

Internet hunting would allow users to connect over the internet to a remote computer attached to a camera and a robotic a...




slmpddeaths.gifSince 1836, 164 St. Louis police officers sacrificed their lives in the line of duty.

More than half of those fallen officers -- 88 -- were shot to death.

Rookie Officer Norvell Brown was the second St. Louis officer to die on the job this year, and the first to be gunned down since 2004. >> Continue reading: Officer down.




nattyslay.gifWe here at the DB razzed St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay a couple weeks back for "geeking out" (mayoral press aide Ed Rhode's words, not mine...) around counterculture music icon Grace Slick.

But hizzoner the mare has made a quick pivot from geek to chic.

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By ASHLEY M. HEHER
AP Business Writer


CHICAGO (AP) -- Do bloggers need their own Norma Rae?

In a move that might make some people scratch their heads, a loosely formed coalition of left-leaning bloggers are trying to band together to form a labor union they hope will help them receive health insurance, conduct collective bargaining or even set profession...




I spent a healthy chunk of it fighting off dehydration with 150,000 of my now-closest friends at Lollapalooza in Chicago.

Part music festival, part public spectacle... all in the name of rock.

Good times.

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Bridges link two places otherwise divided by a natural or manmade obstacle.

There's a lot of distance between Minneapolis and St. Louis, but oh, the link we shared Wednesday evening.

Driving across a bridge is part of so many people's commutes in St. Louis. It's something we don't think about very much... unless we're stuck in traffic on the Poplar Street Bridge.

I'd imagine drivers were very aware of the structure bene...


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