Knoblauch during happier, more sober days.

Second baseman Chuck Knoblauch was a four-time All-Star for the Minnesota Twins, winning both a World Series and Rookie of the Year honors during his 1991 campaign. A little less than 10 years later, he mysteriously forgot how to throw to first base and ended up washing out of pro baseball in 2002 at the relatively young age of 34.

So what's Knobby up to these days? If a post on the NYC-based You Taste Like Nachos blog can be believed, he apparently spends at least some of his time drunkenly riding NYC subways, making passes at young chicks and mega-failing.

The blog, written by a young, female librarian, recounts a surreal encounter the author and a female friend of hers name Tara had while riding the G train home last night.

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Prosper's life came to a tragic, flukey end yesterday.

What a tragedy.

Medard Prosper, 19, lived through more than most of us could ever imagine -- he parents were killed in 2007 during the Democratic Republic of Congo's bloody civil war. His parents dead, Prosper and his six siblings embarked on a 500-mile journey to a refugee camp in Tanzania. Two younger sisters and a younger brother died in the process.

Thanks to the United Nations, Prosper and his surviving siblings ended up relocating to Minnesota. Prosper emerged as a standout, scholarship-winning student at St. Paul's Highland Park High School, where he was set to graduate this June. But yesterday, his promising life was cut short when he ran himself over with his own car and died.

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The fire was most likely caused by an electrical malfunction.

After a weekend-long investigation, the Minneapolis Fire Department has ruled the cause of an apartment fire in Stevens Square "undetermined."

According to the department's arson unit, the fire most likely started in the electrical room on the Northwest corner of the building, caused by some sort of electrical malfunction. Due to their "inability to access the room," investigators can't be certain.

Firefighters got the call around 2 a.m. Friday. The St. George Apartment complex, an old brick building just south of Downtown, was quickly going up in flames. The fire burned until Friday afternoon.

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The building and everything around it is covered in ice from nearly 12 hours of taking on water.

Twelve hours after the first 911 call was placed, Minneapolis firefighters are leaving the site of a massive apartment fire in Steven Square, a densely populated area just south of downtown.

The fire department first got the call around 2:06 a.m that a complex on the corner of 2nd Avenue South and 17th Street East had gone up in flames. By 3:02 a.m. the flames had spread across the old brownstone building, and firefighters upgraded it to a third-alarm fire.

According to the fire department, the building contained 32 units, and all residents have been accounted for. Investigators are still trying to determine the cause of the fire.

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As of this morning, a cloud of smoke over the apartment could still be seen from I-94.

A raging fire broke out in one of the most densely populated areas of Minneapolis early this morning.

As of 9 a.m., Minneapolis firefighters were still trying to finish off the three-alarm apartment fire in Stevens Square, a neighborhood just south of downtown cluttered with brownstone apartments.

Mark Lakosky, president of the Minneapolis firefighters union, says the interior of those old buildings are mostly wood, and fire can spread quickly. "If you got a fire in the wall, it can run all the way up [to the next floor]."

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Someone's idea of a joke.

​Late Friday night, the pastor at Historic Little Church of St. Joseph's in Plymouth thought he saw something moving in the church's darkened cemetery. The windows of his home look out on the historic graveyard and its 120 upright headstones, but in the gloom he couldn't make out what it was.

Early the next morning he walked out into the cemetery and was confronted by a scene of chaos.

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Investigators have collected shipping records for the figurines.

​The case of the baby whose body was found in the Mississippi River in early September has taken a turn and added a clue, but it's unclear if investigators are any closer to solving the mystery.

The girl was found inside a plastic bag, which also contained several other items, including several angel figurines. One of those littler statues has now been traced back to a Catholic shrine in Belleville, Illinois -- some 500 miles south of Winona, where the body was found.

The doll was sold by the National Shrine of Our Lady of the Snows, and was bought out of a catalogue which came out 11 years ago.

To be sure, investigators are looking for more solid information -- or, most directly, a well-informed tip -- in order to determine why "Angel," as the baby is now called, wound up in the Mississippi. But with little else to go on, the origin of this ornament adds another clue to a case with few leads.
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One of several angel figures found inside a bag containing a dead newborn.

​After the body of a newborn baby girl was found floating in the middle of Mississippi River, cops revealed only that she'd been wrapped in a plastic bag.

Now it turns out that the bag contained several items, in what seems to be some kind of spiritual care-package for the dead little girl. The Winona County Sheriff and Bureau of Criminal Apprehension released photos of the items this morning. They are nothing if not extremely eerie and sad.

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Cops want to know if four infants found four years apart in the Mississippi have any connection.

​An afternoon of boating on the Mississippi River went terribly wrong for one family this week after they discovered a strange object floating in the water. It turned out to be the body of a newborn baby girl, wrapped in a plastic bag, and left to be swept downstream.

Now, the Winona County sheriff and the Goodhue County sheriff's departments are comparing notes to see if there's any possible connection with three similar infant deaths in the area.

"We have some history with these types of investigations, unfortunately," says Goodhue County Sheriff Scott McNurlin.

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Tony Hauser, announcing his cancer diagnosis last year

​Anthony Hauser, whose son Daniel made national headlines when he fled the state in order to refuse chemotherapy treatment for his Hodgkin's lymphona, has died.

The death certificate has not yet been released, but a family spokesman says cardiac arrest--not cancer--killed Anthony Hauser last week. On Thursday Hauser had a series of six heart attacks, and the last one evidently did him in.

"We can't say for sure, but it seems possible that he was exposed to something from his farm or a neighboring area," says Dan Zwakman, a family friend. "All of a sudden he woke up one morning and had a hard time breathing."

Hauser, a dairy farmer from Sleepy Eye, leaves behind a wife and nine children under the age of 18.

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