Today is Thursday, January 14, 2016. We meet an elementary school defending Blair Walsh and drug smugglers are getting creative.
Dear Blair Walsh
Minnesota Vikings kicker Blair Walsh missed 27-yard field goal on Sunday that would have given his team a playoff victory over the Seattle Seahawks.
Some fans didn’t take it well.
Judie Offerdahl, a teacher at Northpoint Elementary in suburban Blaine, saw a teachable moment for her first-graders, so the students grabbed their magic markers and started drawing and writing.
“Dear Blair Walsh,” one wrote. “I know it can be hard to get through things that are sad, but you have to try and try again. Everyone makes mistakes sometimes.”
Vikings spokesman Jeff Anderson tells the Star Tribune the team will make sure Walsh gets the letters.
Creative Drug Smugglers
Drug smugglers are having to get creative.
Border agents say they discovered more than a ton of marijuana stuffed into fake carrots mixed in with shipment of fresh ones at the U.S.-Mexico border on Sunday. The street value of the drugs is estimated at $499,000. Police say that nearly 3,000 carrot-shaped packages were mixed in with real carrots.
Officers were able to fill up two pickup trucks (pictured main) with the allegedly smuggled drugs.
