Cordy Alpers, 15, plays with her family’s kitten, Artie, at their home in Cedar Rapids on Thursday, Sept. 2, 2021. Cordy wears a mask at school, where she finds there is less space for social distancing than last year. (Rebecca F. Miller/The Gazette) Cordy Alpers, 15, helps her dad, Dan […]
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Rising YouTube couple on their favorite shared products
For more than 75,000 subscribers on YouTube, Chad and Tori Masters are the Florida-based newlyweds with content that feels like a warm hug, featuring many heart-to-heart chats about the single life, dating, marriage and more. “So much of our community is going through super hard times right now,” Chad told […]
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Rising Spain designer takes haute couture to village home
Trained in Milan, up-and-coming Spanish designer Nicolas Montenegro has dressed Beyonce and Kylie Minogue, but with the pandemic, he’s gone back home to his village to launch his own brand. © CRISTINA QUICLER Spanish fashion designer Nicolas Montenegro ear;ier worked at Italian fashion house Dolce & Gabbana Thanks to the […]
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Rising from the rubble, Liberty’s Restaurant in Red Wing to reopen Thursday
Liberty’s Restaurant in downtown Red Wing marks its 45th anniversary in October, but the eatery has a more immediate reason to celebrate. It is reopening Thursday, a month after it was forced to close when an alleged drunken driver fleeing police smashed through its front door and caused part of […]
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Thompson sisters are rising soccer stars with an eye on Stanford
Harvard-Westlake freshman Gisele Thompson, left, and her sister, sophomore Alyssa Thompson, are two of the best girls ‘youth soccer players in the nation. (Family photo) In the youth soccer world, the Thompson sisters from Studio City are like a streaking comet. Their trajectory is nothing short of spectacular. Alyssa, 15, […]
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Don’t panic about rising infections, says French PM, as fears grow of second wave
Gare Du Nord railway station in Paris looking busy amid second wave fears – Bloomberg Coronavirus Article Bar with counter .. France’s Prime Minister is urging his compatriots to wear masks more but insisted today that rising coronavirus infections across the country are “nothing to panic about” and that it’s […]
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A rising basketball prodigy, a pandemic, a fatal shooting. The Semaj Miller story
Taloma Miller looks through a stack of photos of her late son Semaj and lingers on a school portrait of him when he was much younger. Semaj Miller, a 14-year-old basketball player with NBA potential according to some, was shot and killed in Compton on July 29. (Jason Armond / […]