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Jun 6, 2008
Sex offenders and Human Service professionals reveal the complicated issues around commitment. Hear their voices.
Jun 6, 2008
Barbara Iversen was kidnapped and murdered in 1965 during an attempted rape. Barbara's mother, Joan Riley, recalls her daughter's disappearance. Riley died three months after this interview.
Jun 13, 2008
Dennis Linehan calls himself the 'poster child' for MSOP. Imprisoned for killing 14-year-old Barbara Iversen in 1965 during an attempted rape, he escaped in 1975 and was caught while trying to assault another girl. He talks about his actions.
Jun 26, 2009
Two years ago, Father Tim Vakoc became the first -- and only -- miltary chaplain gravely wounded in the war in Iraq. He returned home to Minnesota with little hope. But he found a way to continue his ministry from his bedside.
May 28, 2008
The Minnesota National Guard brought Lamyaa Kareem and her mother, Shanna Hassan, from Iraq to Minnesota for surgery to correct the teen's severely curved spine. The mother and daughter stayed with a host family, Johanna and Duncan Clyborne. In the the nine weeks that the two mothers lived under the same roof, they learned to navigate each other's culture to find common bonds.
Dec 21, 2007
After the I-35W bridge crumbled beneath the Coulter family's car, the family was plucked from the wreckage and scattered, one by one. All four were hurt. It's been nearly five months and normalcy is still a long way off.
Dec 4, 2007
Brown's airport is a half-mile long grass airstrip on a farm owned by Marvin and Mary Jo Brown. There sits a vintage aluminum 1947 Cessna 140, a two-seater, near two geese, Apollo and Kennedy, and a Lincoln Town Car that is used as a prompt to encourage Apollo and Kennedy to come play "goose games."
Nov 23, 2007
The hectic routine faced by Lee Cody Wilson as a single dad is increasingly becoming the story for a number of fathers. As a single dad, Wilson is part of one of the fastest-growing segments of Minnesotas population according to state projections. Wilson calls his children, and the challenge to be a good father, "a gift from God."
Aug 19, 2007
Horse trainer Wilson Brown has 20 seasons in at Canterbury Park. His keen horse sensibilities, his love of training the two-year-old colt, and his over 35 years as a trainer, have made him a sage concerning the game of horse racing. A lot pivots around the trainer, from the horse to the owner to the jockey to the groom. It's a stressful, exciting existence, and one Brown thrives on.
