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Three years ago, Rebecca Jarvis was best known as a finalist on “The Apprentice.”
Poppy Harlow could be found interviewing celebrities at movie premieres.
Today, the two Minnesotans operate from the front lines of the biggest story in the world. They’re financial reporters caught up in one of TV’s most compelling dramas, with ratings climbing at double-digit rates, and young, relatively green journalists becoming the equivalent of the Gulf War’s “scud studs.”
Only in Sunday's newpspaer, TV critic Neal Justin examines the newest celebrity journalists, whose career stock is rising as the Dow tanks.
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INVESTIGATION: Defendants convicted of abusing children in their own families or households are more likely to avoid prison and be placed on probation than those who abuse outside their families, according to a Star Tribune analysis of more than 1,500 child sex abuse cases in Minnesota. The disparity troubles legislators and victim advocates.
SOMALIS: Mosques such as Dar Al-Hijrah in Minneapolis long have been trusted sanctuaries where Somali youth go to pray, study scripture and socialize with fellow Muslims. They've also been a haven from drugs, gangs and street violence. But in the months since up to 20 young Somali men from the Twin Cities disappeared, possibly to fight in their homeland, some parents are reassessing the relationship between the mosques and their children. Some parents now are staying at mosques during classes instead of simply dropping off their children. Others quiz their kids about their lessons. Still others have taken the once unimaginable step of removing their children from mosque schools altogether.
SPORTS RECRUITING: Riley Dearring, a 6-foot-4 eighth-grader, typifies what’s happening in college basketball recruiting these days. He’s good enough to play varsity basketball for Hopkins, the defending 4A state champs, as a freshman next season. But his future high school team isn’t the only one interested in his talent. Shoe companies, college coaches and online recruiting services have all inquired about Dearring, the result of a recruiting culture that aims to find the Next Big Thing in basketball, even before those players enter high school.
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