MPR News Features are news segments created for various long-form programming, including Morning Edition and All Things Considered, amongst others. Features run the gambit of interviews, reports, profiles, and coverage.
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April 1, 1996 - This year's cross country ski season has been extraordinarily long. In northern Minnesota, people are still out on the trails and that suits commentator Gary Eustice just fine. Gary Eustice skis near his hometown of Hibbing. He recently made an unexpected discovery on the trail.
April 1, 1996 - In honor of Opening Day of Major League Baseball, MPR host John Rabe and baseball analyst Kevin Hennessy hit the street for a game of catch while chatting about the make up of Minnesota Twins team that is taking the field in 1996.
April 2, 1996 - It's a rite of spring, along with melting snow and the baseball opener, anxious young Minnesotans gather at Saint John's University in Collegeville, seeking the chance to represent the state at the national spelling bee in Washington D.C.
April 2, 1996 - The defense has rested its case in the federal fraud trial of State Senator Skip Finn. Finn and two other tribal officials are charged with embezzling more than one-million-dollars from a self-insurance fund that Finn set-up for the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe.
April 2, 1996 - Ramsey county commissioners had no comment this afternoon after a closed door meeting to discuss a judge's ruling striking down the county's trash hauling ordinance. Federal Judge David Doty says Hennepin and Ramsey do not have the right to control the flow of garbage in their counties. The decision may force the counties to charge less for garbage brought to their huge incinerators. And the people who brought the suit challenging the laws want the counties to pay back some of the money charged for garbage hauling.
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