Local News 11.18.08

submitted by Max Sparber

Nov 18 2008 — 12:35pm

FOX9: Girlfriend of Suspected Killer Begs Him to Come Forward
WCCO: Former Officer Pleads Guilty To ‘Prank’ Arrest
Examiner: Couple files lawsuit over son’s workhouse death
PiPress: Boy, dog credited with helping family escape fire

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9 Reader Comments

justpbob Nov 18 2008
1:53 pm

Nice doggie. Good boy! (gives milkbone)

Tom Bartel Nov 18 2008
2:03 pm

Bob, Lassie just does that stuff. She doesn’t need a treat.

justpbob Nov 18 2008
2:21 pm

For all the times Lassie had to find some wandering little moron who fell down a mineshaft, got treed by a mountain lion, etc., she (he) has earned a majority share in Milk Bone Inc.

jane Nov 18 2008
2:31 pm

Am I the last to learn this is for sure going to happen?

http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/CIP/HennepinAve/

msparber Nov 18 2008
2:34 pm

If there is one thing I have learned from Where the Red Fern Grows, it’s that dogs might save you from mountain lions, but they then die of injuries and heartbreak. So I’m giving them a doggie treat.

Rat Nov 18 2008
2:53 pm

pssst….Lassie was a television show.

justpbob Nov 18 2008
3:05 pm

More than a teevee show, Rat, Lassie stared in a series of popular movies. My fav is the one where Lassie plays a disturbed and dangerous combat veteran.

kurtis Nov 18 2008
3:27 pm

Lassie started as a novel. I read it when I was a kid. It takes place in England. I believe it is called “Lassie Come Home.” I remember from the back of the book that it “started it all,” so it wasn’t a novelization.

Where the Red Fern Grows makes me cry. So does the story of its author.

justpbob Nov 18 2008
3:32 pm

Little known fact: Lassie actually wrote that novel. Lassie also ghost-wrote The Rin-Tin-Tin Story during a brief period during the 50s when she/he was on the list.