Delane Cleveland

This video contains three stories that were shot, written and edited by me. The compilation was nominated for a 2015 Upper Midwest Regional Emmy award by the National Association of Television Arts & Sciences.

At M Health Fairview Cancer Center in Edina, Stacy Caldwell recently started a new Monday tradition.
“It’s definitely not a fun thing to be doing, but it’s necessary to get better,” said Caldwell, as she sat covered in blankets with ice packs over her hands and feet.
For a whole hour, she sits as a drug called Taxol drips into her veins.
“It’ll go into my system, into my blood, so that it can attack the cell, the cancer cells,” she said.
Caldwell has done this now for the past nine weeks. But be...

When Ta Leia Thomas saw a man digging in a trash can for boxes to wear as shoes, she took off her shoes and gave them to the man in need.
It happened on Dec. 6 at Brooklyn Center Liquor.
“I’m working with my manager, Berrika, just me and her working up there ringing. And she notices a homeless man digging in the trash can. and she goes, ‘Ace look, he’s putting on shoes,” said Thomas.
But Thomas, whose nickname is “Ace,” says the man was putting on beer boxes as shoes.
“I stopped mid-transaction...

In the late 90s and early 2000s, songs by the R&B group Dru Hill and their lead singer, Sisqo -- after he branched off into a solo career -- dominated the airwaves with songs about love, relationships, and well... other things.

But today, the man most famously known for a song about women's underwear makes his home in Maple Grove.

"There's not a lot of distractions, just basically like a real calm, quiet neighborhood where families are just living and exercising and riding bikes," said Sisqo, 37. "No thongs out here!"

Originally from Baltimore, Sisqo's Maple Grove home is decorated with memorabilia commemorating the glory days of his career.

"As of today, I'm the highest selling artist in Baltimore history," he said. "The only song bigger than mine out of Baltimore is the national anthem."

Sisqo's musical talents have brought him around the world.

"Jamaica in two weeks, and then Dubai in another two weeks. I just got back from China," he said.

But it's family that brought Sisqo to Maple Grove.

"We only decided to come back to Minnesota because my mom is here, my brother is here," said Elizabeth Pham, Sisqo's girlfriend.

Elizabeth and Sisqo have two children together, a 2-year-old boy named Ryu, and an 8-month-old girl named Kimiqo.

"We just felt it was better for our kids to come back home to get the help that we needed, because he's on the road so much, that I have a great support system here," Elizabeth said.

"Man, my son, he's doing well," Sisqo said. "He's really flourishing here. He loves his teachers."

Meantime, Sisqo says he's in a different part of the world nearly every weekend, performing with Dru Hill or as a solo artist.

"It's all good, it's good to have hits," he said.

And while he acknowledges that his music hasn't been in the mainstream since about 2003, he appreciates the role fans have played in making his life possible.

"Thanks to everybody who've been following myself and my group and my music because they have allowed me to be able to afford to live in a beautiful community like Maple Grove," Sisqo said.

This story earned me a 2014 Upper Midwest Emmy nomination in the Video Journalist category. The piece is about artist Scott LoBaido, who traveled to Minnesota to paint a flag mural at the Minneapolis VFW in honor of New Hope Marine Mark Litynski.