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Minneapolis mailman retires after years of walking route, heads out on 2,650-mile mountain hike

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1 year ago

March 3, 2025

Minneapolis mailman retires after years of walking route, heads out on 2,650-mile mountain hike

Minneapolis mail carrier Scott McLaughlin walked the same 5 miles every day for years in the Lowry Hill neighborhood. So what was his dream for retirement?

Turns out it was to keep walking. McLaughlin left his U.S. Postal Service job in January 2024. By that March, he had embarked on a six-month hike along the West Coast’s Pacific Crest Trail (PCT). The 2,650-mile-long path connects Mexico to Canada via a long series of mountain ranges.

“For me, it was just a good challenge — one where I don’t know if I’m going to make it,” McLaughlin, 61, said during a recent interview at his home in the Bryn Mawr neighborhood. “Sometimes, something is presented in your life where you’re like, ‘I just have to do this.’”

Inspired by movies like “Wild,” based on Minnesota native Cheryl Strayed’s hike along the PCT, McLaughlin said the craving to do it himself grew in his mind in his last few months of delivering letters. In the years leading up to retirement, he would go on 50-mile hikes that only left him with a desire to keep going farther, he said.

McLaughlin chuckled when asked about the obvious irony of ending a career of walking only to continue doing so. Long hikes can actually get boring, he said, but nothing prepares you for that better than the mind-numbing qualities of a daily mail route.

Although walking a mail route and navigating the icy sidewalks of Minneapolis got him in shape, it still took a few weeks to get his “mountain legs.”

“You fall down a lot on a mail route on the ice, and you do have to go up stairs, but five steps isn’t the same as the 4,000-foot elevation change like you sometimes had in one day,” he said.

McLaughlin’s mailman past fed both his trail persona and what he called his “trail name.”

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Child seriously injured after being struck by car while playing in alley

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7 hours ago

June 21, 2026

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Child seriously injured after being struck by car while playing in alley

A child was seriously injured after a car hit them in an alley in Minneapolis on Saturday morning.

Minneapolis police say a child was playing in an alley near 29th Avenue North and Lyndale Avenue North around 11:30 a.m. when a car hit them. The child was brought to the hospital with potentially-life-threatening injuries, police added.

The child’s age was not released by law enforcement.

The driver of the car stayed at the scene and is cooperating with law enforcement, Minneapolis police said.

There have been no arrests at this time.

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Minneapolis man jailed after allegedly stabbing a woman on Pillsbury Avenue

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18 hours ago

June 20, 2026

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Minneapolis man jailed after allegedly stabbing a woman on Pillsbury Avenue

A Minneapolis man is behind bars after stabbing a woman early Saturday morning.

According to the Minneapolis Police Department, officers responded to a stabbing around 12:30 a.m. near the intersection of W 24th St. and Pillsbury Avenue. Officers found an adult woman with a non-life-threatening injury consistent with an edged blade.

Authorities said a man known to the woman stabbed her after a verbal argument escalated.

Police arrested a 49-year-old man and is currently at the Hennepin County Jail, pending a second-degree domestic assault charge.

Police said no one else was hurt. The case remains under investigation.

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More than 12 million people just in the U.S. are affected by domestic violence every year, according to the National Domestic Violence Hotline.

The organizations listed above can help connect victims to resources like safe shelter, advocacy, legal help and support groups.

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MERAUDER, JUDGE, ARKANGEL and many more announced for Minneapolis’ Snow and Flurry 2026

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1 day ago

June 20, 2026

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MERAUDER, JUDGE, ARKANGEL and many more announced for Minneapolis’ Snow and Flurry 2026

The lineup has been announced for the 2026 edition of Snow & Flurry, set for October 10th and 11th at Underground Music Cafe in Minneapolis, MN. Judge, Merauder, and Arkangel will headline the two-day event also featuring 25+ more acts in total.

Weekend passes are available now, with single-day tickets and daily lineups to be announced later.

Passes are available here.

Line up in order of flyer:

Judge
Merauder
Arkangel
The Killer
Nehemiah
Another Enemy
Awaiting Eschiel
Basic Needs
Blistered Spirit
Blood Stained Concrete
Cudgel
Direct Order
Dose
Enemy Of Man
Enervate
Ethic
Eyes Of Sorrow
Fleshless Body
Lead Spirit
Madman
Meantime
Neolithic
Passion
Self Interest
Shits Creek
Sin Sufrir
Skewed
What Counts
Withdrawal
Wrath Of Sanity
Velocity