The former Minnesota high school hockey player who was left paralyzed after a game injury is continuing to make progress. Jack Jablonski can move his toes. The now 22-year-old posted a video to Twitter with the caption, “Moving my toes on my own on my command.” The accident that injured his spinal cord happened at a game in St. Louis…
ST. PAUL, Minn. — It’s the social media event that stopped people from working in the Twin Cities. A stranded raccoon was generating a lot of social media interest as it scaled an office building in downtown St. Paul. Minnesota Public Radio branded the errant raccoon with the hashtag #mprraccoon . A crowd gathered to watch it while others commented…
WASHINGTON (AP) _ Republican lawmakers and aides say a train carrying them to a policy retreat in West Virginia has struck a truck. North Dakota Congressman Kevin Cramer was on the train. He tweeted “Kris and I are on the train and are OK. Praying for the drivers of the truck involved.” Kris is Cramer’s wife. Oklahoma GOP Rep. Tom…
NATIONAL — British beauty blogger, Amena Khan, is pulling out of L’oreal Paris’ hair-care ads after she is accused of being “anti-Israel.” Khan announced on her Instagram page she would no longer be a part of the campaign due to some tweets she wrote in 2014. The tweets have since been deleted but Khan says they do not represent the…
NATIONAL — A banking giant is apologizing again. Wells Fargo says it is processing the error that caused many of their customers to pay their bills twice and it resulted in several accounts being overdrawn. Angry Wells Fargo customers took their frustrations out on Twitter and the company said they would refund any related fees or charges. They said…
MINNEAPOLIS — An early birthday present for a 99-year-old Minnesota Vikings fan. She got tickets to her first playoff game ever. “It’s awesome,” Millie Wall said. “I’m loving this.” They say good things come to those who wait and it took 99 years for Millie to make it to her first Vikings playoff game. She certainly made the most of…
NATIONAL — Carson Wentz is fighting back following a number of tweets that criticized him for posting a photo of his dog during a goose hunting trip. The Philadelphia Eagles quarterback tweeted a birthday greeting for his golden retriever, “Mama Henley.” The tweet said “We’ve been through a lot in 5 years, best hunting buddy I could ask for.” One…
FARGO (KFGO) – Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Carson Wentz is fighting back following a number of tweets that criticized him for posting a photo of his dog during a goose hunting trip. Wentz tweeted a birthday greeting for his golden retriever, “Mama Henley.” The tweet said “We’ve been through a lot in 5 years, best hunting buddy I could ask for.”…
NATIONAL — President Trump is busy with his social media account, this time going after the U.S. Postal Service and making comments about the weather. With temperatures on the East Coast dropping significantly with the coming weekend, President Trump tweeted “Perhaps we could use a little bit of that good old global warming that our country…but not other countries…was going…
ALEXANDRIA, Minn. — It’s another case of what some people are calling “inconsiderate Tweeting.” This time it’s a Minnesota lawmaker who is coming under fire. State Representative Mary Franson of Alexandria posted a tweet on her personal Twitter account, criticizing the outcome of the Minneapolis City Council election. She tweeted, quote, “A guy who thinks he’s a girl is…
