What’s happening in Minnesota Today
Happy Friday Minnesota!
Here's the latest news from across the state to start your day. ☕ | |
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🌡️ After some much-needed rain, sunshine returns for Friday as cooler high pressure sets in. Expect chiller but closer to near-normal temperatures in the 50s.
☀️ The weekend looks pretty nice overall with plenty of sunshine and highs in the 50s Saturday and 60s Sunday. Temperatures will warm back into the 70s by Monday.
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| | Man charged in burglaries of Twin Cities Hindu, Buddhist temples is deported |
One of the two men charged in a series of burglaries of religious temples in the Twin Cities area was deported to his home country of Romania earlier this week. Several police agencies investigating the burglaries say the suspects facing charges in the case were part of a national ring that targets religious temples across the U.S. | |
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🚔 Man charged after 130 mph police chase that ended with fatal carjacking attempt. Authorities allege Ameer Musa Matariyeh, 25, shot and killed Jerome Skluzacek, 55, during an attempted carjacking, after Matariyeh went on a violent rampage that started in south Minneapolis and ended two hours later and about 100 miles away in Willmar.
👮🏻 Minneapolis police chief lays out $230 million budget, raises staffing concerns. O’Hara said “getting more people across the finish line” is a priority. But even then, he said, some new hires take at least a year to be educated and trained before they can start patrolling city streets, while officers continue to retire. Thirty officers retired this year.
🗳️ Indigenous voters in Minnesota should feel confident using their tribal ID for Election Day registration. In Minnesota, using a tribal identification card wasn’t always considered a valid form of ID to register to vote. Twenty years ago, the ACLU of Minnesota, the National Congress of American Indians and tribal citizens who were turned away when trying to use their tribal IDs filed a lawsuit. The judge ruled in favor of the plaintiffs, affirming use of tribal IDs as valid.
💧 Lawsuit against Sartell mobile home park alleges sewer backups, deceptive practices. “Those leaks are coming into their home. Some of them have had to pay to have that repaired or to have had to clean it up themselves, exposing themselves to that sewage,” said Rashanda Bruce, an attorney with Robins Kaplan.
🚨 Protester charged with fourth-degree assault in University of Minnesota divestment occupation. Prosecutors charged 23-year-old U of M alum Robyn Harbison with fourth-degree assault, alleging in charging documents that he spit at a police officer while being arrested. He was released from custody to await a first court hearing scheduled for Nov. 7.
🏛️ President Biden to apologize for 150-year Indian boarding school policy. No president has ever formally apologized for the forced removal of Native American, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian children — an element of genocide as defined by the United Nations — or any other aspect of the U.S. government’s decimation of Indigenous peoples.
📚 A Minnesotan’s story collection is climate fiction, but it captures increasingly familiar reality. Two honeymooning “climate refugees of means” vie for acceptance to relocate in Duluth. The pharmaceutical industry creates a new diagnosis — and miracle drug — to “cure” the despair people feel from climate change.
🚗 1 dead, 10 injured in crash along I-94 in Minneapolis. One person died and 10 others were injured in a multi-vehicle crash along Interstate 94 near downtown Minneapolis on Wednesday night. Alcohol is believed to be a factor in the crash.
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